It sounds weirder than it is. Eh – no, it’s about that weird, I guess. Being a light sleeper, I wake up when a butterfly flaps its wings outside my window, but I can understand how some of you heavy sleepers out there might need a serious noise to return to the land of the living. Or, in this case, a vibrating pillow. iLuv’s got a new alarm clock, essentially a fancier version of this one, the most striking feature of which is the mouse-looking thing on a cable that not only vibrates your pillow to wake you up, but has a built-in speaker and volume controls. Because sometimes you don’t want to roll over to turn off the music.
$90 is a bit much for an alarm clock (here’s my alarm clock and my dock), but as far as these things go, it seems pretty nice. The “bed shaker” is a little bit SkyMall-ish, but as I said, I’m a light sleeper and for all I know it might be a godsend for some people out there.
It’s got a ton of useful alarm clock features – lots of separately programmable alarms, combinations of music, buzzing, and radio to wake up to, and so on — you can read all the features over at iLuv’s site.
You know, it could be that this alarm clock was meant to be used by hearing impaired people as well as hearing capable people similar to the Sonic Boom at http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/giftsunder50/8f1a/ . Also, the vibrating feature may be couple friendly for the mate that has to wake up early without waking up his or her partner.
Love that mouse function for this product. That is such a great idea to wake someone up! Great post. Thank you. Andy.