GORDIAN SEAT

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 is comprised 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 habits and how they work, habits are essentially a neurological cycle of a cue, the habitual action, and then a reward. For people who snooze, the cue is the alarm clock ringing, the user hits the snooze button and the reward is more sleep. If this cycle happens enough times, then a reward is not even needed for the habit to take form. 

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Vox Clock features a contemporary look and feel with a pine wooden 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 combat against snoozing. There is no physical snooze button and users have to turn over the face of the clock to the settings in order to turn off the alarm. 

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MATERIALS: pine wood, HDPE, ABS plastic, mesh