Think Big, especially when it comes to alarm clocks! Check out the uber-cool Giant White Alarm Clock from Rockett St George, which is available online for purchase. This funky looking clock has a retro vibe to it and measures  22cm in diameter. Created in white spray painted metal the alarm clock will make quite a style statement.

Giant White Alarm Clock

Alarm clocks may be our bane of existence, but they are indeed a necessary evil. Hence, it is essential to buy the perfect alarm clock.  which is tougher than it sounds, as  the market is rife with all sorts of alarm clocks. So if you want to separate the Good, from the Bad and the Ugly then head over to Zedomax and check out their cool mash up of “Top Five Real Cool Alarm Clocks”, here. Our personal favorite? The Power Socket Alarm Clock, pictured above.

List Of Real Cool Alarm Clocks

Maths rock! Okay maybe a slight exaggeration on my part but I am loving the Jumbo LED Binary Clock. Available on Think Geek for $49.99 after discount, the geeks will heart this clock. You can install it on  the wall or on your favorite flat surface, select BCD or pure binary mode, set the time, and you are good to go.
Features/Specs:
BCD or “True” binary display options, selectable by switch
12 hour and 24 hour display, selectable by switch
3 brightness levels
Wall mountable, or can be used tabletop with included brackets
Battery backup of time during power loss (uses 3 ‘AA’ batteries, not included)
Available in your choice of crystalline blue or bright red LEDs

Jumbo LED Binary Clock

The Jumping Alarm Clock

If you have an iOS device like the iPhone or the iPad, then the WakeMate may be a good buy for you. The device will monitor your sleeping patterns and wake you up accordingly. The WakeMate is a comfortable wristband  and measures dips and peaks in your sleep cycle. This data is then sent to your device to calculate the ideal wake time closest to your alarm setting. When you wake up, your night’s sleep data is automatically uploaded to Wakelytics™, our online analytics platform. For more information head over here.

The WakeMate Alarm Wristband For iOS Devices

In todays troubled times, bombs are very much part of our existence. This unfortunate truth cannot be changed  and has ALSO inspired Mike Krumpus of Nootropic Design. Krumpus has created the Defusable Clock which is shaped like  dynamite and even comes with a  detonation sequence with a scary countdown. So when it is time to wake up, just cut a random wire to diffuse it.

Bombastic Defusable Alarm Clock

I am not a morning person and the thought of interacting with a complete stranger puts me off completely. But different strokes for different folks. There is a new app in town and it ensures that you get wake-up calls from totally random strangers! The TalkO’Clock app will connect to a database of  available callers, call them up and then anonymously connect them to you! So each day you can get a new creative wake up call! For more information head over here.

The TalkO’Clock App Will Make Strangers Give You Wake Up Calls!

If you hate the rude cabbies that you encounter on a daily basis, then we have the perfect device for you that will help you vent out your feelings. The Shoot The Taxi alarm clock is one of the coolest alarm clocks out there and will make for a great novelty gift item as well. The idea is to turn off the alarm clock by shooting it via the provided toy gun!  Available from raptonline.co.nz for $97.90, the alarm clock will make mornings more eventful!

The Shoot The Taxi Alarm Clock

The good old alarm clock has undergone many changes in the past few decades and there are many avatars of it. If you like me hate using your mobile phone as an alarm, then do take a look at the Altaz AZICR. The 3.5″ Touch Screen Internet Clock Radio has a plethora of multi-media functions and lets you enjoy your music, check out weather updates, display your Picasa albums and keep you in the loop with its Internet app. The Altaz AZICR Alarm Clock can be ordered online from here for $99.99.

Altaz AZICR 3.5″ Touch Screen Internet Clock Radio

If you are always broke and also forget to save then the Dreams Ban Clock is a good way to start. The Banclock will not shut up unless you feed it a coin and you can feed it a quarter, you can save up 25 dollars until the piggy bank alarm clock becomes full. Available in five different colors, the stylishly designed Banclock  is fun and functional. This cool clock cab be purchased from AC Gears for $75.99.

The Dreams Ban Clock

Not all alarm clocks have to be gimmicky or garish. If you want something stylish and functional do take a look at the  Ballast Alarm Clock by Lexon. The chic clock features a solid metal casing and one can opt for Black or Aluminum face dial. Designed by Marc Bertier, the clock features Quartz analog timepiece movement. You can order the alarm clock from Pure Modern for $22.00.

The Stylish Ballast Alarm Clock by Lexon

If you are one those heavy-duty sleepers who can sleep through an earthquake also then I bet you are no stranger to late mornings. Reach school or work on time by purchasing the Thunderclap Alarm Clock. The on board 113-decibel ringer is loud as thunder and it also comes with a  vibrating pad which results in an  insistent, bed-shaking tremor. The alarm ring can be adjusted and can be set to flash its three bright red LEDs. You can order this powerful alarm clock for $34.95 from Hammacher.

The Thunderclap Alarm Clock

An alarm clock that shuts only when you play a game of Tetris is made of stuff gaming geeks dream off! And fortunately such a scintillating device does exist. The Tetris Alarm Clock is a DIY project and you can follow the full instructions here.
Says the creator:
“This is an Arduino powered alarm clock that after hitting snooze twice the alarm will not cancel until the user has cleared 4 lines in the game Tetris. You physically turn the clock sideways, so the screen is vertical, to play Tetris.  It’s never fun to wake up in the morning but playing a little Tetris is at least somewhat enjoyable and quite effective.”

DIY Project: TETRIS Alarm Clock

The Hanging Alarm Clock

Want a break from all the high-tech modern  mumbo jumbo and contemporary gadgets? Then go retro and buy the Spirit Of St. Louis Wooden Alarm Clock CD Radio. Retailing on Amazon for $150.39. the retro styled alarm clock is a four hand analog clock that looks vintage however has all the modern features. Apart from all the usual alarm features like wake-up buzzer, snooze etc, it also supports CDs, MP3 players via the  3.5 mm earphone jack and AM/FM Radio.

Spirit Of St. Louis Wooden Alarm Clock CD Radio

After the success of  the Nooka wrist wall, artist/designer Matthew Waldman has released a wall clock version and the designer is currently requesting public funding, so donate away. The uber cool watch is a stunning synthesis of design and technology and is expected to sell for $600 with a ZenV display and $650 with a Zirc display. For more information head over here.

• Time display only

• TDF LCD display

• AUTO/motion activated electroluminescent back light

• 32,768 Hertz quartz crystal oscillation frequency

• Brushed or sand blasted 9″ x 9″ aluminum body; top depth is 2.25″ and tapers to the bottom to 1″

The Nooka Wall Clock By Matthew Waldman

If you like me keep hitting the snooze button and always end up being late, then the Nanda Home Tocky Alarm Clock will come to your rescue. Available on Design Public for $69.00, this cute little alarm clock  will jump off of your nightstand, and run around, so that you have no choice but to get out of bed. The alarm clock can jump from 3 feet high and can be uploaded with 2 hours of MP3′s. You can also record to 6 hours of personal wake-up messages and use the  touch sensitive controls easily.

Nanda Home Tocky Alarm Cloc

Ok, we’re living in the top of technology. But all of us still aren’t ready for this. This is way too cool if you wan full entertainment on your bed. Even if you loose the control to change your channel, your foot can be your best remote.

Via Youtube

Cool hi-tech bed

Ok, we’re living in the top of technology. But all of us still aren’t ready for this. This is way too cool if you wan full entertainment on your bed. Even if you loose the control to change your channel, your foot can be your best remote.

Via Youtube

Cool Bed

This is called the Private Cloud. It’s half a rocking chair, half a bed, so rocking chair + bed = rocking bed?? This would be a revolution for our sleeping habits. Sadly, it requires some spaces to move along as you rock. But I assume that couples that had just married will find this interesting.

Via Interesting Bed

Private Cloud

Put your eye balls back in place because I’m going to tell you that this is a bed. This Animi Causa has a very special way of showing its uniqueness. This bed was made out of 120 sofa balls, stitched together to form a big mattress. Cool for those who are playful where they can get some cool ideas out of this mattress.

Via Freshome

Sofa Balls Mattress

If you’re someone who’s always in the look for cool beds, well this might be the bed for you. The Treehugger offers this unique technology to cool you down without any air conditioner. The technology is simple, where quiet dual-fans at the foot of the bed to provoke air to enter at them head of the bed. So it creates a good air circulation so you won’t get hot.

Via Treehugger

The cool bed

No, it wasn’t taken from the future by a time machine. This futuristic pod called The Transport is a sleeping pod. The body was made out of fiberglass. The cool part about this is this capsule features build in speakers. It also has a good atmosphere of LED lights. But this capsule here cost a fortune. For a one single person sleeping pod, it will cost around $10000.

Via fosfor gadget

Sleeping pod

Most of us have the habit of storing stuffs under our humble bed. But the Flou Bold Bed let’s you take this habit of us to a whole new level. This bed allows you to lift up your bed so that you can store stuffs in the secret compartment underneath. With the modern design, this gives the bed a contemporary appeal and hi-tech function.

Via Uncrate

Flou Bold Bed

Signature by Simplerest.com, this adjustable bed is perfect to keep your bed position in control at the tips of your finger. This bed was designed to let this bed’s headboard to remain an even distance from the wall so that when it moves while u adjusts it, it won’t hit the wall. There’s a small wireless remote included so you can control it by just pressing a few simple buttons. Overall a cool bed in style.

Via Simply Rest

Signature adjustable bed

This cute little bed is just perfect for your little partner at home. Made and manufactured in Shanghai (China), this bed is analyst and tested by technical professionals (woo~) before pushing it out to the market. The material cover is polar fleece to make the surface more comfortable and with crush-resistant fiberfill, this bed provides safety and comfort. The fiberfill will also massage the body to maintain good blood circulation.

Via Global Sources

Luxury Dog Bed

VANGE, a brand from Paris introduced this beautiful partition separator. With uniquely curved wooden planks made the partition looks natural and special. It’s good to have one in your room if your husband’s mini office is in the bedroom and you just can’t sleep with the lights while he’s burning the midnight oil. Or you can use it as a separator if you have a mini library in your room.

Via Aving

VANGE to reveal a wooden fence-style partition

The Amenity’s blankets signify a blend with natures and animals. These blankets have organic with a 200 thread count. The blankets also have pleasant colors dyed on their background with refreshing citrus palette of green, yellow and orange. This item can be recycled anytime as it focuses on eco-friendly awareness.

Via : Velocity

Natural Organic Blanket

Philips has developed a sensor bed called “My Heart”, to help keep track of healthy living. As far as monitoring the overall health of a patient is concerned, this bed can keep track of changes so that sudden surges of abnormal activity crucial to their state can easily be pinpointed before it gets out of hand.

(Source) The Times of India

Philips “My Heart” Sensor Beds

Price: $199.99

(Source) Linens-n-things

AeroBed Classic Premier

Total Sale Price (with bed) : $1,734.00

(Source) Patio and Home Furniture

Mission Triple Lindy Loft with Full 3rd Bed-Right Facing

For kids, it is a good bed to make, especially if they don’t have their actual ones yet. Cover it up with a couple of sheets and you are sure to get something good out of it.

(Source) Treehugger

Cardboard Beds

A single bed that can be transformed into a double bed for your guest, the Orthosleep guest bed is surely something people would love to have in such cases.

Two beds in one

Botton bed pulls out and lifts up to same height .

Both Mattresses are the same length

Mattresses included.

(Source) Justclickbeds.com

Orthosleep Guest Bed

We are all aware that fascination for gadgets and features with beds will always become a point for consideration. But integrating such a feature to go along with our search for proper sleeping respite, Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed offers two packages in one for a good deal for bed enthusiasts.

The company plans to sell a tricked-out place of rest it calls the Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed, mattresses included. The bed, which was on display at the International Consumer Electronics Show, incorporates features like wireless Internet connectivity, an iPod dock, a surround sound speaker system, LCD projector, dual temperature controls and DVR capability.

Leggett & Platt said the bed also comes with a vibration-detection feature that will elevate that half of the bed 7 degrees if a user is snoring and then return to the original position once the snoring stops.

(Source) Associate Press

Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed

The Starry Night bed is being exhibited at CES 2008 and the 20,000$ plus tag, is enough to make anyone see the stars. The bed is a tech marvel as it comes loaded with Wi-Fi, iPod docking station, a 1080p HD projector, subwoofers, and a 1.5TB of drive space and 4GB of RAM. Its ugly as sin but as your momma taught you, looks aren’t everything in life.

Via Engadget

Starry Night Bed

Beds have a crucial role in providing quality sleep these days. No longer is at a matter of adjusting to the bed. Sleep number beds allow the people to make the necessary adjustments according to what they want to obtain restful slumber. This is one reason why sleep number beds have become readily preferable since gone are the days where they have to make do with the beds that they have.

Read more: What Can A Sleep Number Bed Offer You?

Sleep Number Beds Adjust to You

Being realistic is perhaps something that most people do these days. Choosing the proper bed as well is no exception. There are various designs and types of beds that have been introduced in the market and a lot of them play around in the area of either being attractive or being economical.

On being attractive, this of course points towards the direction of overall appearance and new concepts that beds are made to have. While these are considered the future of bedding ideas, their useful life is something that leaves much to be considered. Durability and stability is something that most bed manufacturers sacrifice these days in lieu of new concepts.

There are the wiser buyers who do not take risks. There are some older bed designs in the market gathering dust. But if there is one thing that they have, they are reliable and can be counted on for longer use over new ones that may only last as much as a year.

Read more: Gift Guide for Couples

Making a Choice between Bed Life or Bed Cost

It also has a vertical mirror and storage space that people can use as well once they purchase one for their pad.

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Isabed Bed Space Savers

If you suffer from asthma, allergies or frequent restless nights, your feather down duvet could be to blame. White Cloud Trading Company can provide a good alternative with its range of wool duvets, underblankets and pillows. Wool bedding is a fully sustainable, naturally renewable product that is comfortable to sleep under all year round.

Source: Bargain Hunter

Sleeping on Wool Bedding

Beds have been identified as potential fire hazards and most organizations such as the ISPA are laying down the law to provide their welfare and being. For bed manufacturers, such standards are overkills but considering that safety is one primary concern for distributed products, it should be something that must be truly emphasized as well.

Read the whole article here: ISPA: Bill would be ‘nightmare’ for bedding

ISPA Sending Nightmares To Bed Manufacturers

Rather than relying on the usual print an images, experiencing what future and current home owners can look forward through by having a walkthrough using ready made videos is a good contribution of technology to the growing needs of interior designs and home improvements today.

With ready made videos that can be accessed at any time, people have more leniency when it comes to looking for suitable furniture in the world today.

Read more: Furniture Today Launches Web Videos

Furniture Today Launches FT Tube

When in bedrooms, we love to lie down on our favorite beds, have some pillows elevate our heads a bit and watch our favorite television program or play some DVD movies we have around. We may want to sit or slouch by the floor where we can use bean bags or have some cushions. If we have a rug for flooring, we can always just lay down on the position that best relaxes us.

Rarely will you see a person watch television standing up. Sitting or laying down is the normal way we enjoy watching anything. It just depends on what stuff we have around.

Read more: Media Benefits and Dangers

Where do you watch Television?

For Singapore Airlines, offering double beds through its Airbus A380 seems something that will be of interest to couples. Now some may think of something naughty since they can all sleep in the same bed. It could happen but this new era in offering beds in planes can bring out anything to the imaginative minds of today.

Read the whole article: Airbus finally delivers first A380 superjumbo in subdued ceremony

Singapore Airlines Offers Double Beds to Customers

It is only normal that such concerns would cater towards the skin ailments that most people find today. But with the efforts of Cupron, they allow another dimension towards ensuring health and hygiene through their antimicrobial solutions today.

“We’ve had tremendous success with a variety of applications from cosmetic to odor control,” says Jamie Ben David the director of Cupron’s new e-commerce division.

Cupron’s technological breakthrough in the world of copper infused fabrics enables its antimicrobial qualities to be exploited in a cost effective manner in a wide variety of new products. With a number of their products currently being evaluated by the FDA and EPA for approval, Cupron looks towards a bright future in hopes of influencing the medical field as well as selling apparel.

Source: Cupron Announces Revolutionary Bed Sheets

Cupron Launches Skin Enhancer Bed Sheets

When in bed, people will still need blankets to go along with the warmer thermostat settings. But with Sunbeam Heated Bedding, their blankets can do everything without the help of the usual home thermostat we have today.

“According to the recent predictions by the NEADA for Winter 2007/2008, we estimate that consumers can save more than $180 on heating oil costs and over $170 on propane costs if they use Sunbeam(R) heated bedding while sleeping. Turning down the thermostat a few degrees and supplementing with a heated blanket can make a real difference on heating bills this upcoming season and for many winters to come.”

Source: Heated Bedding is a Money-Saving Solution for Predicted Record-High Home Heating Bills This Winter

Cost Efficiency in the Winter by Sunbeam Heated Bedding

Thanks to brainstorming and some ideal suggestions by management teams of airlines such as British Airline BMI, offering flat beds has made them preferable over the rest. The usual passenger seats can be reclined to temporarily act as folding beds but nothing beats the comfort of actual beds where people can just lay down and go to their restful slumber.

Read the entire article: Flat beds available in bmi business

Sleeping in Business Class Flights

The Wenzel Queen Insta-Flex Air Bed with Built-in Pump offers an adjustable seat position; the customized incline/recline positioning makes that half-hour of reading before lights out a pleasure in the night. It features an integrated insta-flex AC pump for easy inflation/deflation, flocked-top keeps bedding in place, flex coil construction, and is stable, firm and comfortable. The deflated mattress rolls and stores compactly in a convenient carry bag for easy transport and storage.

Wenzel Pillow Top Memory Foam Insta-Bed Air Bed

Wenzel Pillow Top Memory Foam Insta-Bed Air Bed

Not bad for the people who find themselves in cramped places. Comfort can still be attained if they know what to put into them.

Why Choose an Air-O-Space Sofa Bed?

Adjusting the bed and the mattresses depending on what the people who would lay on it prefer is just one of the key attributes and features they have. Learn more from it through this video review.

The Flexibility of Sleep Number Beds

For example, remote-controlled devices in the bedroom makes people move less. They can practically lay down and just push a single button. There are also the touch lamps where a simple tap can brighten up the room in an instant. This and all other new introductions of technology have made life easier and sad to say, lazier for most people today.

Can you think of one technology endorsed device which you have in your room today? For sure there are plenty!

Read more: Gadgets make the living easy in high-tech home

Gadgets Galore in your Bedroom