Alarm clocks come in various forms, sizes, shapes, colors, and themes. But for heavy sleepers, they can care less what the clock looks like so long as it effectively wakes them up. Some of the more technologically advanced clocks offer sunrise lighting simulation, voice recognition and speech, and other ways to rouse the human body from its slumber and into activity. But again, these may be inept in handling with some of the more extreme heavy sleepers. If all else fails, you might want to consider The Bomb: the Sonic Bomb SBB500 Alarm Clock.
This thing intends to wake you up from the very looks of it. Stealth gray finish with red controls, adjustable night display, and pulsating alert lights, the clock feels like its poised to sneak up on you in your sleep then wreak havoc to wake you up. And wreak havoc it will. It’s packaged with a bed-shaker; a 12-volt vibrating pad which from its name you can probably guess what it does. The buzz that goes off when The Bomb goes off is not your regular alarm, its a 113db pulsating alarm accompanied by red strobe flashes. Normal stereo speakers going over 100 watts have a 110-125db range. The Bomb setting off near your bed is like sticking your ear near a running power saweven louder. In fact, its in the decibel range that experts insist unadvisable is to stay in for over a minute for risk of permanent hearing loss. So when that alarm goes off, remember to stop it within a minute, for your own sake.
Imagine youre in a dreamscape of twisted walls and surreal people, suddenly, the surroundings flash red over and over, an earthquake hits, and a pulsating buzz goes off from all directions that you can feel it in your bones. Youre bound to wake up from any dream with all that commotion. Thats what The Bomb is, thats what the Sonic Bomb SBB500 Alarm Clock can do. Its pure wake-up power in a single blow for extremely heavy sleepers.
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