I like that solution, that looks really elegant and not harsh... but if I were going to pay that much money for just the sound I'd go with a CD/Alarm clock and make a CD with audacity that has gradual zen chimes.
Still, I am tempted to get one of those. The other thing is that I hear that 30-minute light alarms are even better because your eyes send the signal to your brain to release chemicals that help wake you even more gradually and naturally and I believe they also have a sound alarm in case you don't wake up from the light alone. I'm selling some things on ebay and if I get up to $90 total I'll seriously consider one of the light clocks, but currently I can't justify the expense. AJ ONeal On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Jim Lawson <[email protected]> wrote: > This is not a software solution, but I am a happy customer nonetheless: > > http://www.now-zen.com/ > > I bought one of their "Zen Alarm Clocks" for my wife 10+ years ago and it > is still the alarm we prefer to wake up to. Now & Zen even repaired it for > free, years out of warranty, when it fell off a counter and stopped working. > > I used to set mp3s to start playing out of cron. For a while, I had cron > call a script to gradually turn on the overhead lights in our bedroom (X10 + > Firecracker.) Compared to those, an actual alarm clock with no digital > components seems elegant. > > Jim >
