I’m sure most of you realize this. Waking up feeling refreshed is not a matter of how much you sleep. It’s about waking up in the correct stage of your sleep cycle. Here’s a great article explaining sleep cycle in detail. In short, if you want to wake up feeling refreshed, aXbo Sleep Phase Alarm Clock can help.
To use, simply put on the wireless wristband, set the time you need to wake up no matter what, and the aXbo alarm clock will attempt to detect the right time to wake you up, within a specified time window (e.g. 30 minutes).
The obvious advantage over similar products like SleepTracker, is that the alarm won’t get muffled when you tuck your hands under the pillow. The aXbo also runs on mains and/or batteries, eliminating the problem of the alarm running out of juice in the middle of the night. And as a bonus, the aXbo also comes with 3 sleep-inducing melodies which automatically stop when aXbo notices that you’re asleep. Brilliant!
The aXbo alarm clock is available for pre-order now. If your sleep’s worth more than €199 (US$244), then the aXbo alarm clock is for you!
January 24th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Get a dog. They run on leftovers and cheap dog food, love you unconditionally, and usually wake you up at about the right time (which is a few minutes before they take a crap on your carpet).
January 24th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
Either that or getting annoyed by your cat’s wiskers rubbing in your face seconds before the alarm goes off. Just be sure not kill your cat when you push it on the floor to get that exta sleep after you hit the snooze button.
January 24th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
What about running a cord from the wristand into the mains? That’s sure to wake you up.
January 25th, 2006 at 11:25 am
wow thats actually pretty amazing, I really wanna try it out…. can’t wait till it comes down in price.
And to the others that commented… the point is that it just wakes you up, the point is that it’s the first clock to actually have intellegance in waking you up in order to get the most rest out of your sleep
January 25th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
So expensive… please email me if you see a product like this that is less-costly. I have problems waking up and going to sleep because I am afraid of not waking up in the morning…
January 26th, 2006 at 5:13 am
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Stop being a little bitch and just go to sleep.
January 26th, 2006 at 9:01 am
Damn, Twig, leave the guy alone. It aint his fault, i’ve had it myself but living in Amsterdam i found something that helps.
Anyway, I’m with Jo. Love to see this come down in price and/or another company make a cheaper alternative.
Sounds good!
January 26th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
so has anyone actually tried this thing out yet?
January 27th, 2006 at 6:33 am
Sleep stage cannot be determined by a band around your wrist. I work in sleep medicine, and sleep stage is determined by at least one EEG channel, eye movements, and muscle tone. It is possible that the product here could measure tension in the wrist, but that alone would tell you very little. Don’t waste your money.
February 8th, 2006 at 7:26 am
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Because of course the most accurate method is the only method that ever works at all, right?
February 28th, 2006 at 12:35 am
Well finally a product that rivals the sleeptracker, on paper…
March 15th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
My boyfriend is a doctor and we both are busy. As we bought aXbo we thought that maybe we will return aXbo within 2 weeks because we had doubted that it could make a difference. But it actually did!
Now we go happily to bed knowing that aXbo will wake us up. I can’t really say what it is exactly. I just will more refreshed, more relaxed and balanced all day long. Really alive and kicking!
March 28th, 2006 at 3:00 am
I can’t find any good info on their website. How does this handle waking up two different people, does it have a wake on vibrate function? To me none of these products are good for couples unless they handle the issue of not waking up the other person when your cycle is ready.
Anyone who knows care to comment?
April 22nd, 2006 at 10:34 pm
Wow. Very nice, but a little high on price.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Since we are using aXbo I never wake up when my boyfriend needs to get up unless I am in a light sleeping phase. There are 2 wristbands with a sensor who communicates with the alarm clock which finds with these informations one’s individual moment to wake up. Both of us can set one’s own time and sound. The sounds of aXbo are also more charming than this annoying peep of normal alarm clocks.
Normally I keep on sleeping until my wake-up time and my boyfriend, who gets up an hour earlier doesn’t disturb me at all. I think that aXbo has found the right solution for couples.
May 12th, 2006 at 6:08 am
Charlie is right. I am a student at Carnegie Mellon University and I have done extensive research on sleep cycles and cognative psych and it is far too unreliable to try to tell sleep cycle from muscle tone by merely using a wrist band. While it CAN work, the procedure is so delicate that any reliable equipment that would be able to detect sleep cycle would cost much much more than this clock. I agree with Charlie, don’t waste your money.
June 14th, 2006 at 2:11 am
Well, I don’t know so much about the scientific researches concerning the sleep cycles, just the basic stuff.But I have read some very good articles about aXbo in Austrian newspapers and magazines tough.
I only can talk from experience. I find that every time I start moving in bed and its inbetween the half hour before wake-up time, aXbo starts to ring. I feel like I had a good night’s rest every day.
June 27th, 2006 at 8:03 am
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hmmm, anyone here notice the excessive use of the word “aXbo” in all three of mia’s comments? And who’d even really keep up with this thing long enough to reply twice, anyways?
I hope nobody was gullible enough to believe happy consumer “Mia” really exists; she’s just the company mule to sell this product. (all the more reason to suspect that this clock really DOESN’T work.)
June 27th, 2006 at 9:39 am
I smell bullshit too. Lol.
December 15th, 2006 at 7:25 am
I really need one of these. Thanks for the genius behind this.
December 30th, 2006 at 2:27 am
Im selling my on eBay Dec 29, 2006 to Jan 8, 2007
starting at 150.00
January 18th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Got my clock just recently. Whether it works or not I cannot yet say, but just to be able to monitor my movements during the night is beyond cool. I can see when I stop tossing and turning and actually fall asleep, and thus measure this timespan. It’s was also funny to see that my wife moves much less than I do during the night. The analyzis software is still a bit buggy and primitive, though. I really hope they put some effort into making this into a good tool.
Another nice feature is that the clock is dimmed during the night and you can light it up with a push on the button on the wristband (althoug it’s a bit hard to find the button when you’re sleepy).
The wake-up sounds are cool too. I enjoy waking up to the bird calls. However, it would be even better if I could transfer my own wake up calls via the USB cable. Hope you’re working on this, axbo guys!
July 6th, 2007 at 9:18 am
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True. However, these types of products are primarily motion detectors rather than indepth cycle detectors . Deeper levels of sleep like REM are motionless in normal people. People are often left groggy after awaking in a deep sleep cycle because of the harsh transition from being basically paralyzed to slightly mobile. People who wake during a lighter cycle (consisting of some motion) do not have such a harsh transition and feel refreshed. The devices (aXbo and Sleeptracker) are kind of pricey; however, they work in principle. The device picks up on motion which has a correlation to transition stages and lighter cycles. Motion detection means closer to consciousness and closer to consciousness means less transitional shock when you wake.
November 11th, 2007 at 1:26 am
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I had a sleep study and it cost $2000. If a $250 alarm clock can do something similar, why not?