Waking up in summer is a lot easier than waking up in winter. The main reason being that the sun rises earlier in summer and later in winter. This is fine if you’re living like our ancestors using the sun as our evolutionary alarm clock, but you’ve got to be in the office early for that big breakfast meeting and it’s still dark when your alarm goes off…
The Philips Wake-Up Light is your personal sunrise, clinically proven to naturally wake you up so you can get out of bed easier, feeling happier and more energised.
The coloured sunrise simulation matches the warm red glows of an early sunrise and gradually brightens up through orange to a bright yellow light. If you find yourself still needing a nudge to get you up, The Philips Wake-Up Light comes with 5 natural alarm clock sounds from rainforest to seaside. It also has an FM radio and an auto-dimming digital clock.
It’s not just ideal for waking you up though, with Sleep Mode it’s perfect for bedtime too. Reversing the process from light to dark. You set the duration, relax in bed, and enjoy a sleep-inducing sunset.
The Braun BC02 is a small analogue alarm clock designed by Dietrich Lubs, who spent decades at Braun working alongside Dieter Rams. It has a plain black dial, a yellow second hand, and nothing else on its face. The alarm is a crescendo beep that starts quietly and gets louder until you deal with it. There’s a snooze button, and a light for checking the time in the dark. It runs on a single AA battery and is small enough to take away with you. If your phone is currently your alarm clock, this gives you a reason to leave it charging in another room.
A home oven tops out well short of the heat a proper pizza needs. The Ooni Koda 2 is a gas-fired pizza oven for the garden that gets there. It takes pizzas of 14 inches and over, and weighs 16kg, so it can go on a table or into the boot of a car. Ooni have redesigned the burner with a tapered flame that spreads heat more evenly across the stone than the original Koda, and the stone comes back up to temperature 20% faster between pizzas. Setup takes a few minutes, and it cleans itself by burning off whatever’s left. It comes in black, slate blue, or green.
The first Anglepoise was designed in 1932 by George Carwardine, a car engineer who specialised in suspension. He worked out that a set of springs could balance a lamp arm so that it stayed in whatever position you left it. The Type 75 Mini is a smaller version of Sir Kenneth Grange’s redesign of the lamp. Grange also designed the nose of the InterCity 125 and the Kenwood Chef. The springs sit on the outside of the arm, it moves with very little effort and holds its position, and the shade points the light at your desk rather than into your eyes. It’s sized for a smaller desk, and it comes in a wide range of colours.
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