Great idea and well executed!

I wouldn’t think this would make for better sleep. I personally seem to take longer than most people to enter REM sleep – this would probably wake me up completely since I’m a fairly light sleeper. I’d like to see something in the way of chilled/temperature regulated blankets or pillows, as it is much easier to fall asleep while warming up in a cool bed.

@laube said: “leds require a lot of power…”

Seriously? HID lamps require a lot of power. LEDs require very little power.

I don’t really see a problem with a power cord; you just can’t flip your pillow through all the permutations. :)

I don’t think I’d want anything wirelessly charging underneath my head. Unless you meant you charge it when not in use, in that case, use a cord, who cares.

hmmmz, I’d include a small connector in a corner of the pillow for charging, so that you’d charge it during the day and when you go to bed you can simply remove the adapter :)

@Alchemyguy
yeah ok i’ve chosen the wrong words..
as harandi pointed out a led uses about 20mW of power (white led @ 3.4v, 6mA)
if we consider the on times of the segments (24 hour clock) we get an average count of lit segments of 18.2 (+ 1/3 for the blinking colon) which gives us an average powerconsumption of 370mW.
With 4 2500mAh nimh cells you get 12Wh of power and given your driving circuit has 100% efficiency you get 32hours of operating time.
and thats not alot for a time keeping device.

but charging during the day is still possible..

An easy solution to the changing pillow thing would be to make it in a pillow case not a pillow itself so you can put any pillow you want inside. Looking at how its made it looks like it would be very easy to convert this from a pillow to a pillow case. Although a unit that can be placed inside a pillow would be best as i dont see how you could wash it if it was a pillow case. in all becides the snore thing i think this a kinda cool and something i might use as a gentle vibration would be a nice wake up rather than the BEEP BEEP. when i hear that sound on tv it makes me cringe because it reminds me of not wanting to wake up LOL. I used a beeping clock all my college years and now i cant stand it and use a clock radio and set it to white noise it is less intrusive than the BEEP.

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u said that if we move the pillow up and down the alarm gets on and off but while sleeping we move the pillow randomly in that random moves there is a chance for the alarm to get off
think this will be a problem ???