Do you want Introducing Amazon Halo Rise - Bedside Sleep Tracker with Wake-up Light and Smart Alarm?

Do you want Introducing Amazon Halo Rise - Bedside Sleep Tracker with Wake-up Light and Smart Alarm?

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Before buying this product, I was familiar with the concept of sleeping with your sleep cycles, and I'd tried several times over to do this in an effort to get my best sleep. When I was successful, it was great, but more often than not I just couldn't get the timing right and I would still wake up tired. Last year I used an app on my phone which had many features similar to the Halo, but more often than not by the time I was going to go to bed, I was so tired I'd forget to turn the alarm on. Sure when I used it it was great, but the problem was actually doing it.

Then a few weeks before its release, I saw this bad boy appear in my recommends on Amazon, and I was immediately interested. I did try to look for alternatives because I was put off by what I thought was a high price and a subscription to boot, but the closest I came was a really cool smart ring that both cost over $500 and had an even more expensive subscription. I had been interested in a Kickstarter project years ago that touted to do similar things as this clock, but the reviews weren't great and it wasn't being sold anymore. Needless to say, I decided to preorder the Halo and give it a shot.

It has been incredible.

I'm a night owl by nature and always have been, and unfortunately it means keeping a regular sleep schedule is near impossible. Still, I'd do my best to get 4-6 hours a night, but that would be offset by the near two hours of alarms I'd have to set every morning just to eventually force myself awake. So sure, I might have gotten four hours of sleep, but with two hours of alarms, it was hardly so. I was unrested and miserable, like I always had been when waking up in the morning, and I was tired of it (not to mention tired in general). And then my Halo smart alarm clock arrived, and boy has it changed my life -- or at the very least my mornings.

For weeks I've gotten better sleep than I could have ever imagined while working a full time job. I almost always wake up to the sunlight halo, and the alarm eventually goes off and tells me it's really time to get up. I've gotten in the bad habit of snoozing the alarm, but unlike my old phone alarms which would go off dozens of times before I could actually wake up, the Halo only takes me two or three times maximum to get me actually up and out of bed. Sure, it can't work miracles if I only get two hours of sleep, but regardless I feel better rested and ready to go. I've bragged about this device to everyone I know, shown them my sleep statistics, explained to them the concept of Lidar. It's hard for me to communicate in a single review just how much I love this device and how much better I feel using it as my alarm clock. There's no more remembering to set alarms, worrying about whether or not I'll actually wake up when I intend to. I just have to remember to make it to my bed before I fall asleep, and I know I'll wake up when I need to be up. Truly it's incredible.

If the mere effect alone isn't great enough, the real thing that seals the deal for me with this device is the way that it works and the fact that it works for privacy-conscious people. As someone who works in IT and has been a computer enthusiast his entire life, I get a pang of anxiety every time I see the words "Privacy Policy" and "Terms and Conditions". I hate when companies collect analytics. I hate that companies sell data. And unfortunately, it's something that's dang near unavoidable in today's world. So I really do appreciate when a company or product development team does their best to make an IoT device or software as private as possible. The fact that this device uses what I presume is Lidar or a similar technology rather than a camera or microphone to track the user without producing an image of them or their phone screen, or listening to every muttered word, is groundbreaking, and it's definitely the nail on the head that made me take the plunge and buy the Halo. I don't feel that this device has invaded my bedside but instead that it's simply an appliance doing what it's designed to do, and that's such a good, relieving feeling to have in the modern day.

The only complaint that I have about this device is the fact that the Halo subscription is not included or discounted with Prime, and it is necessary for the smart alarm. However, I figured it comes with six free months and if it worked well enough I'd continue it, and I am definitely convinced. Halo also includes a few other really nice features such as bedtime stories and meditations, as well as a body composition tracker, so I suppose those are also there to make the purchase a bit more worth it.

If you have to wake up to an alarm and want better sleep, buy this device. If you want to track your sleep and see how well it's going, buy this device. If you're into really expensive clocks then heck buy this device! It's well worth the purchase, and well-deserving of a full five stars.