Reddit reviews iLuv SmartShaker Award Winning App-Enabled Portable Travel Alarm Shaker with vibration, ring tone, and combination option - compatible with iPhone, iPad, and Samsung Phones (Black)
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WAKE UP TO A UNIQUE VIBRATION: Wake up to vibration subtly with the SmartShaker, an award winning wireless alarm shaker. Place this thin alarm pod under your pillow and schedule it through app. It provides three options: vibration, ringtones or both.APP ENABLED FOR A SMARTER WAY TO WAKE UP: Easy-to-use free SmartShaker app (for both iOS and Android) allows you to set up 10 alarms, vibration, 5 ringtones, volume, days, and snooze duration. Other cool things include the weather and battery level.IDEAL FOR TRAVEL: Do you plan a trip or camping? You can still bring your own travel alarm. The SmartShaker is small enough to slip into your pocket or back pack. If you are looking for a stronger alarm, you may also try new version, the SmartShaker 2.LONG LASTING BATTERY POWER: The SmartShaker can last up to 30 days, depending on your usage. When you receive the product, please fully charge SmartShaker and use it until battery is completely depleted 3 times to maximize full battery power.SET IT AND FORGET IT – The SmartShaker works independently without your phone or Bluetooth connection once the alarm is set. You need Bluetooth connection for sync only when you set up alarm. Don’t worry about Bluetooth, alarm, or power. Just use it!
For when your SO gets back this might be a worth investment.
Enjoy your alone time!
Try the Screaming Meanie. Truck drivers use it to wake up because their sleep schedules and pretty much everything about truck driving makes it both very difficult and very important to wake up. It has the added bonus of being portable.
There's also the Sonic Boom Bedshaker Alarm Clock, which is made my a manufacturer of alarm clocks for deaf people. It wakes you up by vibrating your bed and, optionally, beeping really loudly (not as horrible as the meanie though, and more precise volume adjustments.) I have one of these and it works great!
I've also seen the SmartShaker, which is a Bedshaker that connects to your phone via Bluetooth. Personally haven't tried it and I doubt that something that runs on batteries could shake me awake, however, but it could be worth a try.
If you have trouble with going back to bed after waking up to an alarm or turning off alarms in your sleep, I recommend getting an app that requires you to take pictures or scan barcodes. If you need the phone's ringer to be louder for the alarm, try hooking it up to a speaker.
You might also consider getting an old fashioned [Analogue Alarm Clock](
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00PD38UDI/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?qid=1448166430&sr=8-9&pi=AC_SX110_SY165&keywords=sonic+boom+alarm+clock). Those fuckers are loud and percussive and and don't have a snooze button. There's nothing like actual metal clanging together to wake you up in the morning.
If you have some money to spend, maybe a Sunlight simulation alarm would work for you. It simulates the gradual rising of the sun, but at whatever time you need the sun to rise and without having to leave your blinds open at night, with street lights bothering you and such.
Finally, I've found that the very best way for me to wake up is for my husband (or anybody really) to bring me a cup of tea. He can get still-mostly-asleep me to sit up and take the tea, and then I have to wake most of the way up to avoid spilling hot liquid all over myself, and then I fully wake up as I drink it. Obviously, this one is dependent on living with another person and having morning schedules that work together, which may not work for you.
Anyways, as a fellow heavy sleeper, I give you all I know about not sleeping through being a functioning member of society. :)
Cheaper, too
Try to identify where the noise is "getting in". Do you have a window close to your bed? Is the door to your room flimsy? Or is it just thin walls?
If the sound is coming through the walls, you may have little recourse. If the sound is coming from outside, you can get some acoustic foam padding and attach it to the window/door to block out some of the noise.
Another alternative is to get some comfortable foam earplugs, and then get a Vibrating Alarm rather than an audible one -the kind of alarm clocks used by hearing impaired people. Something like this one that you can fit under your pillow, or this one that you can wear.
They're not terribly expensive, and they should be just as good at waking you up.
For some reason when I work day shift I feel paranoid like this too and end up having a hard time falling asleep because I am anxious about getting enough sleep, and waking up once an hour in a panic thinking I slept through my alarm. I don't have that feeling when I work nights, I just come home, set my phone alarm, pass out and usually wake up naturally before the alarm even goes off.
I don't know if I have any advice other than getting to bed early and taking a sleep aide like benadryl or melatonin and setting multiple alarms (phone and an alarm clock). I dated a deaf guy once who had an alarm clock that had a little disk he put under his pillow that would vibrate to wake him up. It was kind of cool and I liked it better than the sound of an alarm clock, but it definitely made the whole bed vibrate so it will probably wake up your husband (but I am guessing a regular alarm does too), and if the fitbit vibrating was traumatic for you, that might be worse.