Wake to a Programmable Environment

Featured in the 2006 Lite-On Corporation Awards, the Awake Alarm Clock not only functions as a night light but also as a rather clever alarm clock that will wake you with whatever music or sound effects you wish as well as an accompanying fragrance.

The blurb featured in the Lite-On Awards literature gives away little in the way of information concerning the technology behind the Awake, though I expect it merely comes down to inserting a fragrance cartridge of some description and downloading the desired music/sound effects to its internal memory – but this is a mere assumption on my part.

One thing the brief text concerning this device does note of interest, however, is that things such as the ambience of a forest can be reproduced through both sound and smell – which sounds intriguing (though I suspect that the simulation of such an environment would actually have quite the reverse effect from that intended on myself).

You can browse through all of the designs featured by linking to the Lite-On Awards site via this link.