![]() I started talking to my alarm clock, and I stopped snoozing. ![]() I bought the voice-activated one because I liked that it was the ’80s Dieter Rams designer version of Siri with whatever basic technology was available to Braun at the time, and also because I thought if I had to look at my clocks and yell stop the second I was woken up, I would be less likely to fall back asleep. And the more unusual Braun Voice-Activated Alarm Clock, which only activates snooze once you say, out loud and in a stern voice while facing the clock, “Stop.” The classic round Braun that we’ve since named the best alarm clock. It was new and different, and I wanted to be a morning person again.Īnd then one day in the very beginning of January, I was walking around Brooklyn when I ended up at Regular Visitors, what would be called a general store if we lived in Brooklyn 200 years ago, but what I prefer to call an artisanal bodega, and I told myself that if they have an alarm clock here, I’ll buy it. When my gently-revving-motorcycle iPhone alarm started up, I hit nine-minute snooze after nine-minute snooze, sleeping away any extra time I had to get ready. After a lifetime of waking at the first sound of my alarm and enjoying life as a morning person, I was just tired. The very end of 2016 marked the first time I started snoozing regularly. ![]() Today, writer Lauren Levy on the alarm clock that transformed her morning routine. To close out the year, we’re asking each editor to write about the best thing they bought. If you’ve read any of our Strategist editor hauls this year, you’ll know that we buy a lot of stuff, and even though we think carefully about each thing that goes into our cart, there are still standouts.
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