Our weather is here, then there, then back again. What is consistent is that we are having longer days of sun. The morning at 7 a.m. looks a lot different then it did a few months ago, and like the saying says, early to bed early to rise makes a person healthy, wealthy, and wise. I’ve been waking up at 4:45 a.m. for a while now and I still haven’t seen my wealth grow. Maybe the growth in my wisdom will make me realize how wealthy in experience I am. Afterall, I was paid in experience from all those internships!
Whether it is waking up early for health reasons, for productivity, or because you absolutely have to get to work, you most likely utilize an alarm clock. The alarm clock is simple, it always tells the time, and at certain times it alerts you of that time. The problem here really is us, the human variable. We whine, we procrastinate, and we don’t wake up the first time! The solution is really simple: sleep earlier and get enough sleep, and you will naturally wake up on time.
Oh if it were only that easy, so inventors see a problem to fix. They toil away and look for the most effective solution.
Some are very effective but are not so, how can we put this delicately...they are not the way you would imagine waking up peacefully from a deep slumber.
Enter the
BedBud Alarm, the latest device from the now Grand Rapids-based company AtLast Industries.
President of AtLast Industries, Don Rhoads says “The BedBud Alarm allows the user to finally take control of their morning routine. Many individuals have the drive to wake up and start their mornings, but have the terrible problem of hitting the snooze and going back to sleep.”
So here is how it all works: you place the BedBud between your mattress and boxspring, let it calibrate its sensors to the weight of the bed, and then just pull out the easy-to-use app to set your weekly alarm schedule.
No need to set eight different alarms to wake you up! We all know someone who does this...or maybe it’s you!
Excited to give it a try? AtLast’s press release tells us that “the Kickstarter campaign will go live May 2017. The best way to make sure that you get the early bird pricing is to go to our website sign up for our newsletter. Anyone signed up for the newsletter prior to launch and who backs the BedBud within the first 48hrs, will be up for a chance to win a free run of the product!”
Summer seems to be trying to peek its head around the corner, so don’t miss any more sunlight and get up early!
Ken Miguel-Cipriano is Rapid Growth’s innovation and jobs editor. To reach Ken, you can email [email protected] or follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
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