Tuesday, November 13, 2007

It’s better than an alarm clock

A few years ago, manufacturers started to create alarm clocks which gradually made the room lighter before the wake-up buzzer sounded.  The idea was to gradually ease your body into waking by tweaking your circadian rhythm.  The problem was that the light on the alarm wasn’t particularly bright.  If you didn’t have the light just a foot or two away from your face, it did little to help waking up seem less startling.

Two inventors, Eoin McNally and Ian Walton, have made an improvement on the original alarm clock idea.  They’ve created the “glo Pillow”.  An LED light is embedded in a pillow, and it gradually glows more and more brightly over a 40 minute period.  Once the light is at full-strength, the sleeper should awaken naturally, as if awakened by sunlight.  No nasty beeps and clangs or other unpleasant noices to start your day with a jolt.

The glo Pillow is unfortunately still in prototype mode, so you can’t run out to your nearest Target to pick one up for Christmas.  With a little luck, someone will bring it to market in the near future.  If you’d like to encourage the inventor to get this pillow onto your bed, stat, you can contact them via their website, Embryo.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 11/13 at 07:11 AM
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