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Take all the best features of smart alarm clocks, smarthome control systems, bluetooth speakers and sleep science and you'll end up with the slick Beddi Smart Alarm Clock. Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Beddi and likes what he finds...
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oh hi Dave Taylor here again and this
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time I'm in the middle of the Amazon
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rainforest
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listen just kidding actually this is the
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Betty alarm clock B DDI this is quite a
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Nifty little device has lots and lots of
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different features one of which is it
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has a white noise generator which you
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get to from your cell phone so right now
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it's only working with iOS with iPhones
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but it'll also be running Android pretty
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darn soon and even if we just start with
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the environmental
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noises there's lots of different options
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but there's a lot more this can do at
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its most trivial I can show you it's
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also a Bluetooth
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speaker and it's a nice sounding I mean
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there's no great imposing base but
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that's not really what this is for so
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let's turn that off and I'll go back to
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the app and you can see here this is
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what the app's dashboard looks like let
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me get to it on my phone and there's
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lots of different sections because it's
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really designed to be like a Smart Alarm
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Clock so a lot of the features it has
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are things that lets it hook into your
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smart home so there are three buttons
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here that you can program to set your
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thermostat to a certain temperature or
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maybe turn on and off the lights in your
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bedroom room or the one I like is you
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could actually hook it up so that just
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before you get out of bed you push the
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button and your coffee maker starts so
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your coffee is hot and ready to roll by
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the time you get downstairs super cool
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um it has a light that simulates Sunrise
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so when your alarm goes off actually 10
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minutes before the alarm would go off it
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starts to bring the light up in the room
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so that you have a nice natural wake up
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instead of that horrible jarring claxon
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of an alarm sound
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and let's see on the back it has couple
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of USB charging ports you can see I have
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a lightning connector plugged into one
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of them little lightning cable and
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there's just a a sort of a slot on the
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top there's no real charging um plug
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there so it's not a lightning enabled
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device for example so the app can Orient
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sideways and you put your phone in there
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obviously you can plug in the cord so
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you can charge it as you go if you're so
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inclined don't need to do that my
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phone's fully charged what else can I
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tell you about this that's interesting
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is I can tell you that it
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has different lighting effect you
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probably let me turn this around so this
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is the whole deal with the
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sunrise and this sort of simulates
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waking up but let's turn that off and
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what's more fun is it has mood lighting
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now I'm not sure how much of this you
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would see maybe in a dark room it would
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work but you'll notice that there's a
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series of LEDs on the bottom that
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gradually cycle through colors so my
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concern is if I have it like this I'm
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not going to see much of it but I
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haven't tried it in a super dark room so
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that might be some nice little thing if
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you are trying to get a certain mood in
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your dark room we're not going down that
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road any further um it has alarms and
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timers and all sorts of other stuff on
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the app and let's see so it also
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includes integration with Spotify and
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nest and LFX and Philips Q so there's a
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lot of different ways you can connect
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with things and it's just a really cool
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device it's very nicely designed you can
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see it's small and it's smart about
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orientation so if you actually have it
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set a certain way and then you move it
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or you tilt it down maybe to do
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something like this it will actually
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know and it will change what mode it's
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in but really all the smarts are in the
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iPhone or soon Android app and that's
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where you really gain access to all of
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the Power and capabilities of this
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little unit and here's what's really
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cool is even if you only use it just as
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and you probably can't really super
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clearly see it might be because I have
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these lights on but there's actually the
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time being displayed behind the grill
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and even if you just use it as a basic
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bedside alarm clock and charging unit
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with those two USB plugs that by itself
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would make it worthwhile but the fact
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that it's a nice Bluetooth speaker it
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has all these other Nifty features and
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there's no question this company is
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super busy developing things in fact I'm
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sure that the one you get will have a
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different version of the app and
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possibly slightly different functions
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than this one so it is definitely on the
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move and that's really cool lots of lots
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of nice things it can do and I
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personally love the whole White Noise
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thing so I love the idea that I can have
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this next to my bed and I can have those
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ocean sounds and it helps me sleep and
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there's research that shows that
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actually does help you sleep deeper and
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longer to have environmental noises like
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that so check it out
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and so let me tell you about this is
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this is the Betty alarm clock and it's
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99 bucks you can buy one at witty
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design.com or you can check out they
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have a Kickstarter campaign but start at
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witty design.com and if you're like me
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you might just be pretty impressed with
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what you find there so this is Dave
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Taylor
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and I'm out of here
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[Music]
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