hOmeLabs Sunrise Alarm Clock - Digital LED Clock with 6 Colour Switch and FM Radio for Bedrooms - with Nature Sounds Sunset Simulation Touch Control - With Snooze Function

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Another great option for a little bit less is this Philips Wake-Up Light. It helps you wake up easily and with more energy and can improve your morning mood, according to the company. There are 20 light intensities to personalize the brightness, five natural sounds, and sunset as well as sunrise simulations to prepare your body for waking or sleeping by gradually changing the light levels. It does have a tap-to-snooze feature if that’s important to you, though the experts advise against snoozing. Design – Consider the space you have to put your wake up light in. There’s no point buying a large light if you only have a tiny space to put it in! Mark Aloia, PhD, global lead, behavior change with Philips Respironics and psychologist in the sleep department at National Jewish Health in Denver, phone interview, September 11, 2018 Smart bulbs are one of the best aspects of the smart home concept today. With the right bulbs and a bit of tinkering, you can set up sunrise and sunset routines using your existing lamps and overhead lights. There are lots of good smart bulbs. I used Philips Hue for this article.

If the alarm doesn’t get you out of bed the first time, there’s a touch sensitive snooze function. Just tap the front of the light andthe alarm will go off, giving you an extra 9 minutes of sleep.If you like to stagger your alarms, or set different wake-up times for the weekend, the HF3520 has two independent alarms. What else to consider: Some customers note that the controls can be difficult and that it can be hard to find the button you’re looking for, especially when you’re trying to turn off the alarm. The brightness levels are not drastically different, so if you want something that will dim to complete darkness, it may not be the one for you. Wake up to nature sounds, ambient music or FM radio and at night, use the light-guided wind down function to ease you into sleep. Simply follow one of seven rhythms of light intensity with your breathing, to help you relax. Alternatively, drift off to also the simulated sunset, accompanied by natural sounds. Wake up lights come in many different shapes and sizes, but the principle is the same. You set your wake up time before you go to bed. Then, a set number of minutes before your alarm goes off, the light gradually increases until it reaches maximum brightness at your desired wakeup time.The sleep-wake cycle is determined by your circadian rhythm—the mental, behavioral, and physical changes that happen throughout a 24-hour cycle. And your circadian rhythm is happiest when it gets lots of natural light. That said, light therapy for SAD treatment usually involves 20 to 30 minutes of direct exposure to a lightbox with a brightness of 10,000 lux each morning or a lightbox with a brightness of 2,500 lux for one to two hours. Light has a physiological direct impact on our mood,” which is why light therapy helps with seasonal depression, Robbins explained.

Popular Science started writing about technology more than 150 years ago. There was no such thing as “gadget writing” when we published our first issue in 1872, but if there was, our mission to demystify the world of innovation for everyday readers means we would have been all over it. Here in the present, PopSci is fully committed to helping readers navigate the increasingly intimidating array of devices on the market right now. However, studies have shown that dawn simulation devices, using much lower brightnesses are also effective in treating winter depression. Benefit 4) Helps regulate your sleep and wake hormones It’s well known that exposure to different levels of light can have an effect on our psychological well-being. Light therapy is a treatment that uses a very bright (usually at least 10,000 Lux) lamp to treat winter depression (aka SAD).If you like the idea of soothing nighttime guidance, like breathwork, mindfulness techniques, meditations or bedtime stories for the little ones, look for those sorts of features specifically. The benefit of an accompanying app tends to be these sorts of bonuses, along with more robust libraries of sounds and options for sunrise or sunset durations. Once you’ve completed the setup, most of the functions can be accessed from the unit’s touch sensitive controls, so you don’t have to rely on the app for daily use. You can also turn off the LED display completely by pressing the digital display brightness button.