VOX CLOCK

Sleep research has shown that people who habitually hit the snooze button feel less restful because they are not fulfilling the full cycle of REM sleep. According to Director of Sleep Disorder Research at Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Reena Mehra, snoozing is not restorative rest. "Much of the latter part of our sleep cycle comprises of REM sleep, or dream sleep, which is a restorative sleep state. And so, if you're hitting the snooze button, then you're disrupting that REM sleep or dream sleep."
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And yet the snooze button continues to be featured in more advanced versions of alarm clocks like on smart devices.
In Charles Duhigg's research on habitual behavior, he discovered that habits are a neurological cycle of a cue, the habitual action that follows the cue, and then a reward to reinforce the repetition of the action. For people who snooze, the cue is the alarm clock, prompting users to hit the snooze button, followed by the reward of more sleep. If this cycle happens enough times, a reward is not even needed for the habit cycle to repeat again.
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Vox Clock features a contemporary look and feel, with a pine wood base and mesh-covered body. It features a rotating body with different functionalities of a radio, clock, and settings on each side. This rotating capability not only makes it easy to access the different components, but it helps prevent snoozing. There is no physical snooze button, which means users will have to turn over the face of the clock to the setting side to turn off the alarm. 

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MATERIALS: pine wood, HDPE, ABS plastic, mesh