Los Angeles based Lucera Labs has developed an IR sensor equipped alarm clock that wakes up people gently with a focused beam of LED light.
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Wakē alarm uses a warm LED light to wake up users. (All photos courtesy of Lucera Labs via Kickstarter) |
The alarm’s IR sensors enables it to distinguish different body temperature, and direct the warm colored LED light beam and narrow audio sound beam towards the correct user.
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Wakē directs light to a specific user based on the person's body temperature. |
The alarm clock gradually increases the intensity of the LED light and volume of the alarm.
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A diagram of Wakē components. |
According to Lucera Labs, ultrasonic wave technology used in the parametric speakers of Wakē is a narrow sound beam, so it will not affect the person sleeping next to the user.
The company has so far raised US $70,289 out of its $ 100,000 goal on Kickstarter to mass produce the alarm.