![]() ![]() The Sony Dream Machine turned out to be the machine of my dreams. I like to imagine them snuggling under the covers next to the blocky clock on the nightstand. Kathleen Kelly eventually found Joe Fox (Tom Hanks). Pick your alarm clock like your mattress. AM and FM bands (analog tuner), dual alarms (buzzer + radio). “You never know which piece you’re going to be missing. A clock radio with a flat, half-disc shape, in white or black body, and red or green LED display. I cherish the rare mornings when I get to wake up to the familiar beep. Today, my wife and I have a dog, cat and two children to wake us up on their schedule. A week and $20 brought another Dream Machine into our life. So, I turned to the place where all forgotten technology goes: eBay. I just wanted the low-pitched beep, which I always hear as a polite, but rueful, robot assistant urging its human masters awake. ![]() But I didn’t want bells, and I didn’t want the whistle of an espresso maker with a built-in alarm. You can now get alarm clocks that shake you awake, mimic the sunrise or make you chase them to shut them off. The insistent, flat beep had become the sound of waking up across three cities and almost two decades. When our Dream Machine died in 2010, I didn’t know what to do. I do not jab at it and discover that an hour has leaked away. It offers no documents to edit or Twitter to scroll. Each night I put it on the desk in my home office before I head upstairs, where the Dream Machine waits. “And the temptation to check your email or respond to a noise from your phone can break up that routine.” “You need a sleep routine,” Dasgupta says. Besides flooding your eyeballs with blue light, which is bad for sleep, a phone also introduces unpredictability into a time of night that should, ideally, always follow the same motions. Raj Dasgupta, a sleep specialist at Keck Medicine of University of Southern California’s Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. “Bringing a phone to bed raises a couple red flags,” says Dr. The Sony Dream Machine has been a stolid bulwark, helping me resist the temptation of technology. Now, your cellphone can be your alarm clock (and probably is your alarm clock), but that doesn’t mean it should be your alarm clock. They did not wake you up unless someone had dialed you. Those phones, however, could do two things: make calls and receive calls. It woke up my (now) wife and I in college in the late ’90s, a time when cellphones had just started to be a thing. The Sony Dream Machine is a clock radio, a squat white square with glowing red numbers and a snooze button. Other GE Model 62 Plastic Clock Radio (1948) Check out that red and green dial. Sony All in One Compact AM/FM Dual Alarm Clock Radio with Time Projection, Soothing Nature Sounds & Large Easy to Read Backlit LCD Display. It is the very alarm clock that Meg Ryan’s character, Kathleen Kelly, has on her bedside table in You’ve Got Mail, which came out in 1998. Vintage GE General Electric 7-4612B Digital Alarm Clock Radio AM FM Nice. Emerson Radio SmartSet Alarm Clock Radio with Bluetooth Speaker - CKS1521, Orange LED. My alarm clock is older than my marriage. Nelsonic Time Projection Digital Clock with AM/FM Radio, NLC627. ![]()
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