![]() ![]() Mains powered, this little Lumie offers both Sunrise and Sunset modes, the former slowly kicking into play over 30-minutes prior to your alarm setting to help ease you from sleep in the most natural way. Featuring a small footprint, the Sunrise Alarm will fit neatly onto smaller nightstands and manages to offer most of the functions of larger, more costly examples of its ilk, albeit in a slightly more limited way. ![]() There are big, pricey smart sunrise alarm clocks and then there is this Sunrise Alarm from Lumie – a compact, inexpensive means to achieving sleep sublimity. Ticking all the boxes for the technophiles out there, the Smart Clock 2 includes a wireless charger dock that juices up your phone overnight and, as an extra bonus, there is also a USB-A port for powering a second device such as a smartwatch.įinally, addressing privacy concerns, the Smart Clock 2 does not possess a camera, whilst the microphone can be – reassuringly – muted at the flick of an actual physical switch, meaning you can be as prim and proper or as depraved as possible in front of the Lenovo, free from the fear of your ‘private time’ ending up splashed all over the internet’s less sensitive sites.īuy now £34.99, Currys Lumie Sunrise Alarmīest for: A bargain-priced wellness awakening Plus, helping even the most highly strung of agitated night owls settle down for a full eight hours, the Lenovo allows you to set a bedtime routine that can turn off the (connected) lights and soothe you to sleep with any of a range of relaxing sounds, music or even a guided meditation. It features a four-inch colour touchscreen display on which you can view your own online images, two remarkably crisp and clear sounding 3W front-firing speakers and Google Assistant, which means you can not only set alarms, but can also schedule tasks, set reminders and, of course, control any other smart devices on your Wi-Fi network through voice commands.īeing internet connected, you can instantly access a world of audio entertainment (not video), listen to music, hear the news and check on weather and traffic announcements before deciding whether or not to get up in the morning. And this initial dalliance was followed up on in 2021 by the Smart Clock 2.īuilding on the popular foundations of the first, the Smart Clock 2 is a natty-looking, solidly-built little slice of smart tech. Smart Clock – a temporal tech device that brought clocks firmly into the 21 st Century. These gadgets will not only efficiently and gently stir me from my fevered dreams, but can also either help organise, inform and entertain me or see to it that my passage back into the waking world is as attuned to my wellness as possible.īest for: Small, slick and oh so very smart But if I did have to get up during some ungodly hour mostly frequented by larks and milkmen, I’d want to be torn from the arms of Morpheus by the metaphorical hands of some bit of cutting-edge kit. I’m fortunate enough to say that I’ve never had a problem getting up in the morning, but that’s mostly because I’m a freelance hack and, as such, don’t get up before the crack of noon anyway, and much the same can be said of the 11.7 million people who found themselves on furlough the last awful couple of years. ![]() Either that or staying up all night wondering why nobody ever swipes right on you… I’d, erm, imagine. ![]() You may compare to the way Victorian ‘knocker-uppers’ became equally defunct when alarm clocks themselves first became widely available.īut while smartphones all come packing an alarm app capable of disturbing even teenagers from their slumber, experts with brains immeasurably larger than ours in the fields of psychology (and something I’ll just label ‘sleep science’) are pointing a big scientific finger of blame at said smartphones as the cause of rising insomnia cases.Īccording to an official-looking site on the internet, the blue light emitted by the devices delays the production of melatonin in the brain, making it difficult to doze off and leading to a complete failure to achieve 40 winks that is followed by a world of fatigue. In an age where pretty much anyone with opposable thumbs is in possession of an all-singing, all-dancing, fancy Dan smartphone, the standalone alarm clock may seem like outmoded technology. ![]()
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