BioBrite Sunrise Clock Advanced Model Charcoal

by BioBrite

Product Features

• Gradual sunrise wakes you up gently and naturally
• Gradual sunset gives your body the signal to wind down, helping you to fall asleep sleep
• Optional backup beeper and power failure backup for reassurance
• Dimmable bedside lamp for reading or soft lighting
• Intelligent LCD display fades to very low level when you want to sleep

Product Description

The Charcoal SunRise Clock is derived from medical research on light and human behavior. In the early morning, the biological clock is sensitive to low intensity light. So, waking to a slowly increasing light can result in a smoother, more natural transition to wakefulness. It features an audible back-up alarm, the ability to set dawn and dusk cycles of 15, 30, 60, or 90 minutes, fade to nightlight, adjustable display brightness and more. Comes with hand made opal glass globe. One year manufacturer�s warranty.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7 x 7 inches ; 3.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00196LFIU
• UPC: 666142886300 798304138115
• Item model number: 88630
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,549 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)
  • #34 in Health & Personal Care > Health Care > Alternative Medicine > Light Therapy
  • #66 in Health & Personal Care > Baby & Child Care > Health Care

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

96 of 96 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great idea, could be better made, December 19, 2006

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D. Straight (Upstate New York) - See all my reviews
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We've had this for about a year now. I always have had trouble waking in the mornings. This helps a lot. We don't need to use any other alarms or even the "beep" function. By the time the light is halfway up, we're pretty much awake. (As long as no one succumbs to the urge to turn it down again mid-way!) Using the sunset function works well for limiting the length of bedtime story reading and transitioning from stories to sleep for the kids.

My only quibble is the quality of this lamp/clock. When we first got it, the light would flicker or strobe unexpectedly. Time and tinkering seemed to fix it. The white noise function barely works. It only comes on when the light is on, if I screw around with it, and goes off when the light does. There's no separate control for it, nor a volume control. I wish that were separate. Is it just me, or doesn't it seem counter-intuitive to have the white noise only run when the light is ON? It doesn't come back on when the sunrise function begins, either.

The clock also runs consistently fast. Every few weeks I have to adjust it as the time grows ten or more minutes ahead.

We like it a lot, but there are a lot of foibles to contend with for the price.

83 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My morning sunshine, October 6, 2008

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M. Crocker (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BioBrite Sunrise Clock Advanced Model Charcoal (Health and Beauty)

I only wish I had purchased my sunrise lamp years ago; I love it! While it took me a couple of mornings to get the lamp and alarm settings exactly how I need them, it is so nice to wake up more easily and in a better mood. Programming the light is fairly simple, but one thing to remember is that the light will turn itself off about 15 minutes after the set wake up time. I found that extending the wake up sequence from 30 to 60 or 90 minutes made a big difference. My husband and I both have to get up early and it's always dark in the winter; our sunrise lamp really does make getting up easier and we both agree that we are actually happy instead of grumpy when we get up. We no longer need to set our audible alarms as we naturally wake with the lamp.

69 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low Quality, Tedious to use, Doesn't Work, October 17, 2005

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Michael Cloutier "Mike" (SF, CA) - See all my reviews
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Here are my 3 issues with this:

1. Low quality design and construction. As soon as you take it out of the box you wonder why you paid so much for it. It looks like it was spray painted by a child and the buttons are flimsy.

2. It is tedious to use. There are only 3 buttoms to use all of the features(not including the alarm on/off button). Just to set the time, you have to go through a menu with one button until you get to the time set mode and then you can only increment/decrement one minute at a time (no hour incrementing). Major pain in the ass.

3. It doesn't work. I was really excited about having this clock. I was so sick of waking up to the beep-beep-beep of my old alarm clock, and this seemed like it was going to make my whole day better. Unfortunately, the "sunrise" hasn't woken me up once, and I still wake up to the beep-beep-beep of it's backup alarm everyday. And I'm a very light sleeper.

I wish I had something good to say about this, but I don't. For me it was a lot of money for something that works no better than the cheap alarm clock I've had for 10 years. At least on the old one I could set the time very easily.