Interesting Clock

Hey guys, I saw this and thought that you might be interested:

http://axbo.com/infactory/1_home_en/news_list.jsp.html

Basically it's an alarm clock that monitors your sleep pattern and wakes you up at the time (around the time that you set to be woken up at) that you'll feel less groggy in the morning. It worked though a wristband that keeps tabs on which sleep stage you're in.

I'm interested in it for a two reasons:

1) I'm an awful sleeper and always wake up an absolutely horrible mood, so I guess that this might help.

2) I was thinking... it could be possible to make it wake you up when you start the REM sleep stage. I mean it won't out the box, but some kickass programmers could change that, no? ;)

So anyway, I'm thinking about getting one, what do your guys think?

That's pretty fascinating. How does it work? Does it monitor your pulse? I'd need to know some details before I could trust it.

It sounds awesome, but I doubt it's what 'tis cracked up to be.

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It monitors body movement.

This review says it works:
http://www.digitalreviews.net/reviews/misc...larm-clock.html

Click here for English.

I bought one and have been using it for about two weeks now.
It does wonders for my dream recall.

It'd be cool to hack one of those and make it display differnt lights at differnt parts of your sleep or auto suggestion etc.

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I bought one and have been using it for about two weeks now.
It does wonders for my dream recall.
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how much did it cost

I would get one of these if they were cheaper..€200 is a bit much. I would love to be woken up more gently than having my super annoying alarm clock go "BEEPBEEPBEP>>......:@
There are also those ones that are lights that slowly get brighter to simulate a sunrise... that would be quite nice as well

Oh god, I can't belive it's been a year since I posted this. I still need to get myself one.

So how much does it help with dream recall?

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So how much does it help with dream recall?
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As I said, at least for me, it helps extremely much. (Otherwise I usually have pretty bad dream recall.) In the manual they say that the best time to be woken up is right before or right after a REM period, preferably after. And it really does that. It always wakes me up at a point when I am turning in bed and it almost always feels like I just had been dreaming. All I can say it works for me. I think this type of technology will be used for the next generation of lucid dream induction devices. I can hardly wait for it.

interesting. how much does this cost in american dollars?

Approximately $262.74, if those still cost €200.

That's a lot.

I wonder if there's a free clock like this on the internet...does anyone know of any?

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Originally Posted by mtfuji

I bought one and have been using it for about two weeks now.
It does wonders for my dream recall.

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I also just bought one. Not so much for helping with dream recall, but for a nicer awakening every morning. I hate when alarm clocks wake me in the middle of dreams or in deep sleep. I get cranky all morning.
I tried it last night and worked wonderfully.
But now I'm having trouble with the software. I want to download the sleep cycle data to my laptop but the software freezes and doesn't recognize that the aXbo is plugged in, although the laptop itself does and installed the drivers automatically. Do you download your data? Have you had any problem like this?

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A friend told me about this.
He was thinking about getting one, but it's indeed "a bit" on the expensive side.
It's certainly an interesting device and I'd like to hear more experiences about it.

btw, I bought mine on ebay, 2nd hand, much cheaper. It cost me $118. I've solved the software issues. it's been working so very well for me!