

We all know that the alarm clock which comes out of box with the iPhone is far from perfect. Whether it be by way of a person screaming down their ears, a certain someone banging the hell out of metal based objects above their head, or simply - an alarm clock.
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Naturally, anyone who has this "condition" needs to be physically woken up by something. Okay I admit it, sometimes I even find it hard to get out of bed at all. If you know me well, or you happen to follow me on Twitter, you'll probably know that I'm more of your night person, rather than your get up at the crack-of-dawn kinda person. While I was at it I added in the other wake-up missions from the Memory alarm clock and the Motion alarm clock as well to further boost the alarm clock’s efficiency.Version Reviewed: 1.0.1 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested) I decided to merge the Barcode wake-up mission with the Math wake-up mission.įorcing me to physicaly get up, to leave the room, and then doing a brain game does the trick brilliantly again. I have to leave the room before anything happens. Now (2020) – having a newborn and a toddler sleeping in the same room – I cannot use fight or flight instinct triggering ringtones any more. So I added that to my Alarm Clocks as well. To really get the best of me I got into Morning Routines. So I got back to work to catch up – my son already a toddler now. I worked very little – Mathe Alarm Clock was going very well.īut success grows competition. When my first son was born I took the luxury of not using an alarm clock at all any more.

The math-puzzles made sure I wouldn’t fall back to sleep while my wife could easily fall back to sleep being not even completely awake. Just a few seconds of beeping (until I could push that button) were enough to trigger the fight or flight instinct. I quickly added the “Don’t wake my spouse” button – a 10 seconds snooze button. All of a sudden that infernal ringtone wasn’t so brilliant any more. Success on the App Store and overwhelming customer feedback from people alike proved a point.īecause math isn’t just for everyone I soon developed the Motion Alarm Clock, and the Memory Alarm Clock.Īll things went well. Multiple choice math questions was all it needed to activate higher brain functions preventing falling back to sleep once the fight or flight instincts were triggered by that annoying ringtone. That’s when I developed the Mathe Alarm Clock. I figgured that there had to be a way to speed up regaining alertness after physically waking up. Trying to adapt again I found myself in a situation where I was standing in my bathroom the toothpaste in one hand and my iPhone in the other hand barely awake. I was now able to set and lock the alarm when willpower was high and had no way to cancel it when willpower was low. So after a month I added the lockable alarm feature. More often than good for a healthy sleep schedule I set the alarm during the day when willpower was high just to cancel the alarm just before going to bed when willpower was low. Having no way left to sleep through the beeping alarm I once again adapted. The optimal wake up trill frequency to trigger fight or flight instincts made sure I got up. Instead of going across the room to stop the alarm clock I now had to go to the bathroom to scan in the barcode of my toothpaste. With the “Barcode Alarm Clock” I developed a solution that got me out of bed for sure. In 2013 I decided to take the problem head on. Having no schedule left my sleeping habits became even more erratic. In 2012 – the year after my degree – I gave independent app development a shot.

In the end I could walk across the room more asleep than awake, sleep in bright light, catch a beeping rolling ball literally in my sleep and had a well trained bladder. It was always the same story: I adjusted.
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I tried everything from putting the alarm clock at the other end of the room, drinking a full glass of water before night, bright wake-up lights, an alarm that was beeping like hell and rolling under my bed in the morning. “Ever since I moved from my parents and started to study Computer Science (major) and Psychology (minor) I struggled with getting up on time – hitting the snooze button more often than I should have. The developer Jarig Duval on why he developed the Sleep Crusher alarm clock:
