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The OneClock Gentle Wake Clock -- PREVIEW
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Jun 22, 2024
Tired from waking up to the incessant buzz of your smartphone? Anxious all day because you never quite seem to let go of the Internet? Then you are going to love the OneClock. It's not an alarm clock, it's a wake up clock designed by musicians and researchers to help you gently and calmly begin each day. Hand-made in the USA and based in Boulder, Colorado, they loaned a prototype to tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ so he could check it out. This review is the result. Interested in getting one? You'll want to go to Kickstarter ASAP before the campaign ends. Head to https://www.kickstarter.com/ and search for "oneclock". Easy enough!
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This clock will change how you think about waking up. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm being really calm and peaceful because that's what this is all about
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This is the one clock and it's not an alarm clock. This is a clock that helps you wake up
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peacefully and calmly. Yes, we're all very calm today. The idea behind it is that instead of you
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having all of your devices and all of those distractions and things beeping and chirping
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and lights coming on, this is a calm device that is intended to be completely unconnected from
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Wi-Fi, from our modern technological craziness, and it wakes you up with slow and gentle music
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that gradually ramps up. It is actually a pretty slick piece of design. The clock itself has a
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Swiss movement so it's very accurate. It has a three button interface. There's no app. There's
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no charging pad on the top. In fact, it's probably a good idea for you to leave your phone outside of
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your bedroom. Just saying. So let's talk about the buttons. On the front is basically the alarm
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management button and then on the back there are two buttons, one of which is the volume button
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and the other is the time set button. That's all there is. It has a cable and that cable goes to a
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little USB adapter and that plugs in and you are plugged in. And the good news is that it actually
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can remember the time for two weeks. So if you have a power outage, this is not going to be
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something you have to worry about. It will just know what time it is. So there's no snooze button
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Again, what OneClock has done here is they've really tried to rethink what our experience is
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waking up from sleep. Now, I don't know about you, but I generally like to wake up when I wake up
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but I've tried this for the last couple of mornings and it's pretty nice. Actually
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you set the time and that's super easy. So I push and hold for a minute
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and now it shows me the current alarm time and then I can adjust it back and forth
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Let's see. I don't remember what time it is, but we'll just set it here. Oh, no, that was wrong
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Let's actually move it just a little bit forward. So we're going to set the alarm and then there's
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a tiny little light that is on or off and you push it to turn on or off the alarm. So now the alarm
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is set and after a couple of seconds, it'll go back to being the current time. And it's actually
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pretty cool because you hear this click, click, click, click as it moves. So I like that whole
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mechanism. That movement is very, it feels very solid. Now, the sound is really what's cool about
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the OneClock. So what they have is they've worked with Grammy award-winning musician, John Natchez
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of the War on Drugs and a bunch of other stuff. He's been on over a hundred albums or
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CDs, tracks, whatever they call it now. And what they did is they've created a sort of catalog of
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musical sounds and instruments, more, you know, it's 20, 25, something like that. And then each time
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the alarm is actually going to go off or sorry, the music is going to begin. There's some AI
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software inside the clock that picks tracks and then picks the volume and sort of emphasis of
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individual tracks. And then it brings that music up. The concept being that you never hear exactly
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the same music twice. So one time it might be wake up music with guitar predominant. And then the
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next time it might be a flute or a saxophone or something like that. In practice, it's actually
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really cool. Now, where are we in terms of our alarm? Well, it should trigger in a minute or two
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but you can also test things out. So I'm going to turn this all the way to the side
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And then I think I have to push it for a second. Push it for longer than a second
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Welcome to music mode where you can listen to all of the songs on your one clock
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And that voice is someone from the War on Drugs band, by the way. To exit music mode
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just turn the knob back to center. So let's just give it a shot. To start, press the wake knob now
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And let me turn this around so you can hear a little better
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But this is typical of the kind of audio that it will play while you're waking up. And again
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it's different every single time. And this starts out soft and gets louder as you get sort of closer
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to your wake time. And it can play for up to 20 minutes. Remember, again, no snooze bar. You don't
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get to cheat and have it turn off for 10 minutes or something because there's data to show that
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that doesn't actually help you wake up any better or make you feel any better once you are up and
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about. So this is really chill. So very nice. And the controls are all super easy to use. So
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if I'm done, all I have to do is turn that to the top. And now let's see, we should still have our
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alarm. Let's see. It should be on. There we go. And there's also a light. The dial has a light
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And again, it's an old school light. This is not illuminated. The intention is in the middle of the
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night, you can't see it, nor should you be waking up in the middle of the night and looking at a
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clock. In fact, the darker your room, the better your sleep is going to be. That's why I have
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blackout blinds in my bedroom. You should experiment with this and get rid of all those little lights
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and little things that are that are like brightening up. Oh, and here we go. So now we're
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waking up. So let's just listen. You can hear it's very slow and it's quiet. And as time sort
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of passes and we get more into that wake up sequence, the tempo should increase and the
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volume will increase too. But you can imagine at this level, this is something that can just end
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up being woven into your wake up dream before you quite fully let go of your sleep state. And all of
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this, there's a ton of science to show just how good this is and how you'll wake up feeling really great
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When you're ready to start your day and you want to turn off your alarm
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it is literally as easy as pushing the knob. That's it. No apps, no Bluetooth, no Wi-Fi
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no downloads, nothing. This is just a super simple, elegant solution. Now, let me tell you a little
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bit more about it. It's 4.4 inches tall, 3.5 inches deep, 7.1 inches wide. It's 2.7 pounds
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It is handmade. It is super high quality materials. The wood is an actual real wood, hand stained
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I mean, the whole thing has a beautiful build quality. Now, to be fair, this is a late prototype
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but they assure me that the final production units will be very much the same and it has
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different color choices here. So, you know, there's just so much to like here. It's also
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made in the USA and here's something crazy. It comes with a 20 year warranty. 20 years later
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if it stops working, you can call them up or email them or I guess mind link them at that point
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and they'll talk to you and you'll figure out what to do. So, that's pretty phenomenal given
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how many devices barely have a 90 day warranty. So, that should give you peace of mind and help
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you rest, right? So, lots to like. Even the instructions. Here's, this might be a prototype
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but, you know, this is not some tiny little thing folded up 600 ways that you can barely read
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This is like a menu at a high-end restaurant. It's just simple, straightforward, gives you how
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to accomplish each and every task that you want. Everything they've done here with One Clock is
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about having you just chill the heck out and that's not a bad thing. So, the only thing really
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we need to talk about is the price because it kind of comes with a doozy of a price tag. But
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before we get there, I'm going to ask if you don't mind, go ahead and click on that subscribe
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button and subscribe to my channel. Really appreciate when you do that. Great. Okay, now
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this is the One Clock and currently it's on Kickstarter. The manufacturer's suggested retail
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price for this clock will be $349. Right now, the early bird pricing on Kickstarter is $244
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and they are rocking it on Kickstarter. Last I checked, they have a $20,000 goal and they've
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raised over $350,000 in early orders and that's 1,500 people have already ordered this clock. So
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they are doing really well. Now, here's the thing. The beginning of March, the Kickstarter campaign
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is going to be over. So, if you really want to check one out, at that point, you'll want to go
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to oneclock.co and they are a Colorado-based company. In fact, they're in my hometown
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Boulder, Colorado, which is how I got my hands on one of the prototypes. That was pretty handy
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So, big fan. I mean, it has a big price tag but if you're tired of waking up and feeling
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you know, anxious or exhausted or just wishing that your whole wake-up routine was a little bit
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more peaceful, calm and elegant and a little bit less jarring and overwhelming and klaxons and
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alarms and phones you have to check and all sorts of stuff, this might be the solution to you having
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a better, calmer and more stressless life and that's a really cool thing. So, definitely check
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it out on Kickstarter. Just look for One Clock on Kickstarter and you'll find them and if you
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miss that window, then just go to oneclock.co and we'll all sleep better in the morning
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And with that, I'll catch you later
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