Sonic Bomb Dual Alarm Clock with Bed Shaker, Camouflage | Sonic Alert Vibrating Alarm Clock Heavy Sleepers, Battery Backup | Wake with a Shake

I'm usually not one to do reviews but this certainly deserves a review!!!We've had this about 5 months now.. life changing!Hard sleeper? Hitting the snooze button a lot in the morning?Yeah..well, that’s me..it hasn’t always been… Heck, I used to be up by 5 AM every morning, ready to kick booty and take names. Well, not so much these days. Not sure if it's because I haven’t had a full night’s rest since 2012 (thanks Al’s) or because my diet & exercise have turned to crap-- nonetheless, Russians attacking the U.S. in broad daylight couldn’t wake me from a midday power nap if given the chance.Being business owner, WAHM, Wifey.. Surely you can see how that can be an issue.As fate would have it, Mr. Smo and I happened across this surreptitious alarm clock marketed towards those that sleep like a railroad tie instead of a normal human being should. Literally never heard of it. The ad promised to wake the heaviest of sleepers. I’m thinking, “they’ve obviously not met me, so..”What the heck, let’s give this thing a whirl. We buy it. It comes in 5-7 business days, yada yada. Of course I’m testing it out! I ain’t fixin’ to DIE trying to come out of my sleep (if it really works, that is!)Firstly it comes to you literally looking like a bomb wire to a hockey puck. Like, that probably should have been my first clue to walk away. Nope, I’m a glutton for punishment.Y’ALL- we were testing--- I repeat, TESTING this alarm, broad daylight… Not sleeping…Heck, we were expecting the thing to go off in a minute’s time. That alarm went off and y’all, If I’m lyin’ I’m dyin! I dang near fell out.. I nearly had a HEART ATTACK! This thing packs a whopping 113 decibels, (the same as a chainsaw, so you imagine one starting up as your alarm clock!) My ears probably bled lol..The vibration was jolting, but more on that later.Alright, now to the real test:So Night #1: Side note: Both Mr. Smo and I have a love affair with our snooze buttons. We usually set the alarms 1-2 hours ahead so we can snooze and “drift lightly back to consciousness in time” for the day. Night #1 we decide we’re gonna be some daredevils. Set that joker for the exact wakeup time. Let’s do it. We placed the “jolter-majig” under our mattress, in the middle, to make it fair for all parties.I wasn’t ready. He wasn’t ready. Also, might I add, tiny Smo, too, was also not ready.Now, let’s break this down. You’re sleeping. You’re dreaming. Then you get the “jolt”, and by “jolt”, I mean sit straight up in bed, bug eyed, scrambling for glasses, screaming across the king size bed, “HOLY !)@*# IS THAT AN EARTHQUAKE?!?” kind of jolt. The bed-shaker (that actually goes underneath your pillow, I do NOT recommend that) shakes so violently, you can hear and feel it on the other side of the house. So, yes, it literally shakes your lazy tail outta bed. Imagine a guy coming into your room each morning with a jack hammer, and that’s about it.Then, you get the “squall”... (is that a good word? I feel like that’s a good word.) Remember the aforementioned 113 decibels? Try going from sleeping soundly, to a chainsaw in your ear with no warning. Your heart rate will go from 60 to 130 in seconds, from the first jolt, really.Now, this God-given, Satan inspired gift also has one more trick… it has LIGHTS, as if the brutal awareness that you are no longer asleep, but may now have an anxiety attack instead, isn’t enough. I wouldn’t go as far as to say these red-flashing lights would cause a seizure, but it probably would be good to keep in mind if you have epilepsy. The only way I can describe these lights is, if you’ve ever seen flashing red lights on an ambulance, that’s about what it’s like.The only experience Mr. Smo says he can compare this alarm clock to is being jolted to consciousness each morning in basic training. Like drill sergeants, the shear volume of this alarm clock will make it impossible for one to ignore it. Really, I’m not even sure why they included a snooze button on this thing.If you have heart issues, do not get this. If you suffer from anxiety, do not get this. Epileptic much?-- probably not for you. This alarm is no joke. But it’s EFFECTIVE. I often find myself waking up before the alarm even goes off due to what I believe is almost fear. Imagine someone putting a jack hammer to your bed and the loudest alarm you can imagine going off. If you can sleep through this then you may want to go see a doctor to check and see if you’re still in the land of the living. Though, I’m certain no matter what state of decomposition one is in, it’d probably still wake the dead.As far as wiring issues, not working, etc... no problems so far.

This is my third Sonic Bomb clock and they are amazing. As someone that can sleep with lights and tv on on the background, I sleep through my phone’s alarm but with these I have no problem waking up. The vibration of the clock really shakes the bed well and is a good feature to use when I do not want a loud alarm to wake up my neighbors early in the morning. P.S. When I lived on a second floor in downtown and left my alarm on by mistake. I kid you not that everyone walking by was staring up at my room thinking that fire alarm was blaring out loud.

I have always had issues with sleep. It seemed that I have gained immunity to noise-based alarms and the vibration of my phone or watch didn’t seem to do the trick. I would always dread have anything scheduled in the morning outside of a routine because I would almost certainly sleep through my alarms.I got this alarm specifically for the vibration feature. It seems to be a life changer within the first week of use. I was having significant sleep issues leading up to my purchase of this alarm clock. I was up during the night and asleep during the day. With a 36 hour awake period and the use of the alarm, I was able to wake up instantly during the first morning of usage. Since then, I have been able to wake up as soon as the alarm goes off.I will say that the alarm sound could probably wake me up. The problem is that I live in a shared-living environment and the sound would most definitely wake people up around me. It truly is a loud alarm clock. So I keep it off and just use the vibration feature.I wish I had learned about the Sonic Bomb sooner since this would have prevented so many issues with missing various events, work, classes, etc. If you are a deep sleeper to the point you miss alarms frequently, this may be your solution.

UPDATE: I've come to the conclusion that the vibrating module is creating a significant amount of static electricity buildup. So much so that it caused the alarm to reset multiple times, and with the battery inserted it would bug out the display and fail to read a valid time. This would require me to pull the battery, this losing my alarm settings. It would also make me acquire so much static in my sleep that I could see the arc jump when turning my light switch on in the dark. As soon as I removed the vibration module from under my bed, no more issues occured. Keep this in mind. I may have a faulty unit, or the design itself may be flawed (I am leaning towards the latter rather than former). I will be keeping the alarm because it still is very loud, but it will lose a star from my original 4 star rating because of this flaw, unless I fail to wake up from it or the unit dies before one year of use, in which case it will get only 1 star. For now I still do recommend it for heavy sleepers, but I will be casually looking for an alternative brand to try out in the near future.If you're a heavy sleeper, and I mean heavy as you are mistaken to be dead you sleep so heavily, the buzzer on this alarm alone will wake you. Combined with the vibrating module underneath you and you better have a necromancer on call in order to send the spirits back to text that you'll sure awaken as well.If this thing doesn't wake you up at the time you set it for, I'm afraid you might want to look into sourcing a live-in nurse to wake you with a shot of adrenaline as a solution.The only complaint I have is the lack of a day of the week setting so that it would only set the alarm for M-F and have alarm 2 set for weekends and at a later time only using the vibration for a less jarring arousal from sleep. So long as you remember to set it, it will surely get you up. An additional thing to note is that while it does have a battery backup with a 9V, it WILL NOT operate on battery power. It is only to hold the settings in memory so that if you lose power during your sleep and regain power, you will still be alerted at your alarm set time, so long as AC power is restored before then. It would be nice to at least power the clock/buzzer and just bypass the vibration on battery. These two minor complaints are the only reason it gets a star deducted. It's a no frills, stupid alarm clock which is what I want. Not some fancy thing connected to the internet telling Amazon when I go to sleep and when I wake up to pee or listen to me snore. Safe AND effective!