Sonic Alert SB300 Sonic Boom Loud Vibrating Alarm Clock with Large Display
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Product Reviews of Sonic Alert SB300 Sonic Boom Loud Vibrating Alarm Clock with Large Display
Product Review: Impressive Shaker, Lackluster Clock
Summary: 3 Stars
--Sonic Alert SB300 Sonic Boom Vibrating Alarm--
PROS: I was most impressed with the shaker on this clock--it's a powerful beast! It vibrates about five times more violently than an average cell phone, and even with the device placed underneath a fairly thick mattress, I still woke up to the powerful vibration. It may say something that I'd normally sleep through a "dump truck driving through a nitro glycerin factory." The clock is certainly readable, and the design is simple--a welcome change from clocks with too many buttons everywhere.
CONS: I don't mean this offensively, but the overall look of this clock on my nightstand makes me feel I'm in a nursing home or a hospital--it has that "geriatric" look about it that's sterile and ultimately made me feel my sleeping-in issue was a serious handicap worthy of institutionalization. The worst feature of this clock is its controls, however, which are very anti-geriatric: they are small, difficult to maneuver up/down switches on the back of the clock that make setting the alarm annoying. To set the alarm or clock time, you must pick the whole clock up, turn it around, and push a small switch to "time" or "alarm" before then pushing small buttons to set the hours and minutes. This can't be done easily by touch alone--you have to look at the buttons--unless you become extremely used to the clock. Also annoying: to set the alarm volume or pitch that you like, you must set the alarm for the current time--there is no "test" button. The alarm is loud enough, though it doesn't come near the air horn-like volume I expected. I'm returning this clock because of its sterility and difficult time-setting controls. I may be a heavy sleeper, but I'm not ready for the nursing home yet!
SIDENOTE: As a couple people have alluded to on Amazon, it's baffling that alarm clocks are so many years behind the innovation curve that other technologies push forward so consistently. How bizarre, since EVERYone has an alarm clock. Perhaps Steve Jobs needs to go into the alarm business.
Product Review: It MOVES me
Summary: 4 Stars
I like the vibration the best, the buzzer is annoying. It takes up a lot less space the the original vibrating sonic boom clock I used for years. I wish it was easier to set the time/alarm but guess thats why it takes so much less space. If you are hard of hearing (like me) or a really deep sleeper this is an alarm clock to consider.Product Review: It will wake you up.
Summary: 5 Stars
The alarm almost sounds like a fire alarm. The vibrating device works but not enough to wake me up. With the ability to adjust sound pitch and volume anyone can wake up to this the first time it goes off. I have trouble sleeping through other alarms. This is a great product.Product Review: It works...
Summary: 5 Stars
Putting it politely, this thing can wake the dead. The tone and volume are adjustible and set (im)properly can sound roughly like a cross between nails dragging across a blackboard and a cat being fed into a meat grinder. Combine the bed shaker and a volume control that can be turned up to an ungodly level and you're not going to be the most popular person in the dorm...but you'll never miss an 8am class again. Just don't turn it on on weekend mornings.
For normal sleeping people, the volume can be turned down and the bed shaker disconnected.
Product Review: It's loud or it shakes the bed, or both...
Summary: 4 Stars
For 11 years I've slept next to a man who sleeps through every alarm no matter how loud and then hits the snooze button at least 6 times once he's finally heard the alarm. This gets quite annoying. In search of something that might wake only my husband and allow me to sleep until I actually needed to get out of bed, I came across this alarm clock. We've had it for several months now.
Here's what I can tell you about it:
1. It's ugly. It's just an alarm clock. They've made no attempt to make it stylish or have any design at all. It's just a clumsy, slightly inclined to tip over, plastic box with a very large display.
2. You can set it to the alarm which is amazingly loud - I mean ear-splitting, wake the entire house, scare the dog, loud. Or you can set it to vibrate mode with no sound. Or you can set it to do both.
3. The vibrating mode will wake up the other person sleeping in the bed. But it will probably wake up the person it's supposed to wake up too. Something about your pillow vibrating beneath your head seems to create better results (at least in this house) than just an alarm. It's a strong vibration.
4. Often, the vibrating disk will move up against the headboard and make a loud buzzing/knocking sound which is not nearly as pleasant to wake up to as just the bed vibrating a bit.
5. I would much rather wake up to my bed vibrating than to an earful of sirens which is what most alarms sound like.
I like this alarm. It isn't exactly what I was hoping for because it still wakes me up too and I often still have to whack my husband in the arm to get him to shut it off but it's a better way to wake up. Sometimes, if I'm really zonked, it doesn't wake me up at all and my husband just lies there in his own puddle of drool vibrating away for at least an hour before it wakes him up. That's fine by me.