#PHILIPS SMARTSLEEP REVIEW FULL#

The time display will automatically adjust according to the light level in your room, and it is pretty easy to read without being too bright.Д«est of all you can turn the time display off completely. Tap the top of the wake-up light again and it turns off. It provides enough light to find your way in the dark, but isnвЂ™t bright enough to wake you up. It has a wonderful вЂsoft lightвЂ™, so if you wake up in the middle of the night to answer the call of nature all you need to do is tap the top of your wake-up light and a dim light will instantly come on. There are some very thoughtful design touches that really benefit the user. Some of the programs also feature rain or ocean sounds which in themselves are incredibly calming. It is actually very effective, and is a way to switch the brain off and tune in to the light/sound and calm yourself down to sleep. You select from one of seven programs and then you follow the light or sound cues to take breaths вЂ“ the idea being that, almost like a form of meditation, it will help you relax and unwind and fall asleep. Needless to say when I read this I was intriguedвЂ¦ДЄs I alluded to above these are essentially breathing exercises. Now one thing the Philips SmartSleep offers is something called light guided breathing. With both the sunrise and sunset simulation you can wake, or fall asleep to, sounds as well. The sunset simulation, which helps prepare your body for sleep by slowing decreasing the light, works equally well.ДЄgain it is completely customisable and gives you a lovely calming and warm orange glow to lull you to sleep. The light is bright enough to wake you and fill the room, but it feels very natural and not at all harsh or overwhelming when you do wake up. It starts at a soft, subdued, red tone and gradually increases in brightness to orange before it reaches a bright yellow. The light is warm and feels crisp without being overwhelming, and you can customise it entirely. The main selling point of any wake-up light is obviously the sunrise simulation and this is, as we have come to expect from Philips, top quality. This was originally branded as the Philips Somneo Sunrise Wake-up and Sleep Therapy Light but has since been renamed as the Philips SmartSleep Sleep and Wake Up Light вЂ“ I have no idea why! This also has three nature sounds to wake up or fall asleep to. It has an FM Radio with five preset stations and an AUX socket so you can connect an external device to it, for instance, your phone, and play music from that. The tap to snooze button on the top of the light will snooze any sound (but not light) for nine minutes.ДЄs is the case with most wake-up lights these days you can use this as a bedside lamp вЂ“ it has 25 brightness settings (the default setting is 18). It has two alarm profiles and you can set the time, light intensity and wake up sound you want to use for each of the two profiles. This is PhilipвЂ™s first wake-up light with a RelaxBreathe feature, that aims to help you relax and unwind by following a breathing programme guided by light and/or sound. It also has a sunset simulation that you can again set from 5 minutes to 60 minutes and select a sound to fade away as the light dims. The video below gives you a demonstration of the sunrise simulation.

#PHILIPS SMARTSLEEP REVIEW FULL#

So if you set your alarm for 7.00am with a 60 minute sunrise duration the light will first start to illuminate at 6.00am before reaching full brightness at 7.00am. This is the time the light will start to come on before you desired wake up time. It has a default setting of 30 minutes but it can be set to last anything from 5 minutes to 60 minutes. The bread and butter of this is the sunrise simulation. Since making their first wake up light in 2006 Philips have continually evolved the brand with this, the Philips HF3650/60, being released in 2017. In fact they employ over 75,000 people in more than 100 countries around the globe A Dutch multinational company, Philips are one of the biggest electronics companies in the world.

Philips smartsleep review