Do you struggle to get up on a morning? Not much of an early bird? Do you go through the same motions as me, jumping out of your skin as soon as the alarm goes off, opening one eye and thinking I’ll just have five more minutes, then groggily sit up and perch on the end of your bed usually whilst rubbing your eyes and wishing it was the weekend. If you have this problem I seriously advise you listen carefully to what I am about to tell you.

A company called AXbo has created an uber cool alarm clock that wakes you up gently instead of startling you, it uses cycles to determine whether you’re in a light or deep sleep. Every night, people go through sleep cycles, which usually last between an hour and a half to two hours. So the average person goes through 3 – 5 cycles per night.

WARNING: Waking up during a deep section of the cycle can leave you feeling tired, grumpy and snappy! (Usually how I feel on a morning)

On a lighter note, if you wake in a light section of the cycle, you’ll be left fresh, rested and raring to go.

The monitoring of your sleep is done by a couple of different-sized sweatbands that measures your movement. If you’re stirring and wriggling then it assumes you’re sleeping lightly and wakes you up. If you don’t move an inch in the half-hour before your target-wakeup time, then a more violent beeping alarm will alert you.

The AXbo alarm clock aims to do precisely that, by letting you set a target time and then waking you up with a gentle sound that slowly rises in volume at an appropriate “light” point in the half hour before that.

The alarm clock unit itself has a rechargeable battery and certainly isn’t on the unattractive side, coming with a transparent backlit LCD display, which will look lush in any contemporary bedroom. Setting the system up and using it is pretty intuitive. All you have to do is remember to put your wristband on and deactivate the alarm on weekends, and you’re all set.

Slightly pricey at £180.00 but well worth the money. Get it ordered!

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