This shouldn’t set you off by a ton, however, if you are startled awake by something in the middle of the night, it might throw your whole rhythm off — something that using an alarm that wakes you up based on your sleep level will help you avoid.

I’m seeing the same thing on the actitrainer. We’ll let you know what we find out.

As far as alarms, noise levels, etc, I’m thinking that just monitoring sleep cycles, and knowing that you’re typical rem cycle lasts x minutes will probably help just setting a normal alarm. It’s like an at-home science project.

I wonder if we can get an eeg machine…

First, people said that the alarm itself was super quiet. It woke them up the first couple times (as it’s supposed to wake you up during the lightest phase of sleep), but after that they/their body just ignored it. Also, if there’s a significant amount of noise to cover it up , but not wake you up, you’re out of luck.

Second, it’s got a couple variables to set, going to bed time / wake up time / wake up window. You have to set each of these every time you go to sleep. Setting the time on a digital watch is annoying as it is — I cant imagine doing it every night.

Perhaps I’ll just wait for the reviews! The axbo is definately the sexiest of the three, but the ActiTrainer seems to offer much more featuers. However, from what I read, it doesn’t seem to be an alarm.. just a monitor (ie: you did X during the day, and slept this well at night.) Am I missing something?