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

This clock is getting rather mixed reviews and I was a little worried when I bought my first one about a year ago. I bought it for my son, who was a senior in high school. He slept through all of the alarms that I bought at Wal-mart for him. He would then be late (or not go) to school and the principal would call me to ask where he was. (I swear the principal had me on speed dial!) After I gave my son this alarm he never slept through his alarm again. He did leave school early on numerous occasions (and the principal kept me on speed dial) but an alarm clock can only do so much at helping with parenting. (He graduated, thank God, and uses the alarm to wake-up for work now.)My son's alarm has worked perfectly since the day it arrived, so I had no qualms in deciding to buy one for myself last April. I am hard-of-hearing and I like the vibrating disc that goes under my mattress. It wakes me up right away. I don't even put on the noise--just the vibrator. It works great! It has gained 2 minutes in 5 months. I think people should READ THE DIRECTIONS and set the switch on the back for USA electric currents!My son-in-law and daughter sleep through their alarms all the time--even when they have 2 or 3 of them set! I gave them my Sonic Bomb alarm clock 3 days ago and he has woke up on time every day since!That is why I am purchasing my third one today. I need another one for me. These alarm clocks are great and I highly recommend them to heavy sleepers, hard-of-hearing, or even profoundly deaf people.There are some features the clock has that are not mentioned in the description of the clock:1) It has battery back-up--so when the electric goes out (ours goes out about 15 times a year) the clock still keeps time.2) The alarm has the ability to be on just noise--really loud annoying beeping, which can be adjusted for loudness and tone (for hard-of-hearing people who hear some tones and not others)Or you can put it on just vibrate--for people like me who don't like to wake-up with adrenaline pumping through my body. Or you can really juice it up by putting on the noise AND vibrate your bed, which my son and son-in-law both use to wake-up.3)It also has flashing red lights that go off when the alarm does to help people wake-up.I do not have anything bad to say about the clock. I highly recommend buying one. Just make sure to read the directions pertaining to the switch on the back about setting it for which country you will be using it in.August 9, 2012 Update: All 3 of our alarms are still working great!February 9, 2014 Update: All 3 still working fantastic! The best alarms we have ever owned!August 19, 2021 Update: My alarm is still working great!! Keeps great time and the vibrator is still functioning perfectly!! Wakes me up everytime. I assume my married kids' alarms that I gave them are still working or they would have asked me where to buy a new one, Lol

This thing is loufnand it shakes the bed very nicely. I have a daughter that requires hearing aids and this combination shakers and loud alarm does the trick waking her up, with the rest of the house. It's easy to use. It's pretty durable. The shakers has fallen off the bed onto the floor a number of times. It has traveled well, but not thr most ideal as its a larger form factor than just some shakers only options that she uses. Very nice looking and feel. Good selection of colors to choose from. She loves the black and red.

A great alarm clock! Especially for those of us who are on heavy sleepers. I love the fact that it has a little shock attachment that you can run from the clock and place over underneath your pillow. I have to be up at 0500 most mornings for work so this definitely helps me get out of bed. The only negative part about it is that resetting it is a little bit of a pain in my butt. I like to sleep in a bit on Saturdays and Sundays so of course I get up later on those days. It’s easy to set the time a little bit later for those weekend mornings. However, when I have to go back to my early morning wake up morning hours on Mondays I have to sit there and hold in the alarm buttons and cycle back through the entire time cycle to go back to my 0500 alarm times. It’s a slight inconvenience and a bit annoying. But given the fact that the clock does such a good job of actually waking me up the rest of the week, I’m OK with it.

For hearing impaired people, the vibrating alarm is effective and such an improvement over sound or light based alarms. Unfortunately, the first one of this model which I bought about a year ago stopped working. This is my second purchase of this model and I repurchased it because it works well. Just don’t expect it to last for years and years.

Ever since I got my C-PAP several months ago, I've been sleeping like the dead. By which I mean that I sleep through all of my phone's alarms, which used to wake me up from my fitful, cruddy (lack of) sleep.That entire setup is your first clue, dear reader, that I am old. I am an old man who does not like waking up in the mornings. Mornings suck. If I ever hit the lottery, I will wake no earlier than nine in the morning. The early bird gets the worm, you say? Yes. Well, the second mouse gets the cheese.On the plus side, these days I wake feeling refreshed--like I actually slept.On the downside, sleeping through my alarms wasn't great for that sucky part of adult life called "employment." My boss is somewhat forgiving, but she's not going to change my start time to, "Whenever this guy shuffles in on any given weekday." Trust me. I've tried. She's not having it.So, I ordered an alarm clock that I figured would do the trick. This little gizmo. With the lights and alarms and vibrations.If it's been awhile since you've set a digital alarm--one that isn't your cell phone, I mean--you may need to read the included instructions. I know I did. (I TOLD YOU I'm old. Sit down, young'uns, while I tell you the terrifying tale of Growing Up Without WiFi. Oooh, spooky!)The directions helpfully explained what all the buttons do, and when, and how to make this alarm clock do what you want it to do. Overall, setup was quick and easy, including turning on the alarms I'd just set.Then I tested the alarm.Holy. Cow. Am I glad there's a way to adjust the volume on this thing. I had it set too high for the test run. It wasn't like my face melted or anything like that--this alarm does NOT go up to 11--but it was close.My wife was downstairs and she heard this alarm over the TV.A neighbor who happened to be outside wondered if I'd gotten a new kitchen timer.Somebody from NASA contacted me to say that somebody on the International Space Station had requested that I shut that thing off already.Nifty features:* I can set two alarms. Because sometimes, I just want to turn off the first one and lie in bed for awhile. It's nice to have the second go off to tell me that, no, I really do need to drag my butt out of bed and do work-type stuff.* The display brightness is dimmable, in case you care about the glowing-red numbers interfering with your sleep.* Bright, pulsing lights that, despite being very effective on me, do not in fact wake the dead. (I'm qualified to say this, as I live near a cemetery and, so far, no undead visitors complaining about their eternal slumber being disturbed.)* A plastic disc to put between the box spring and top mattress. Do you sleep on your back? FREE BUTT MASSAGE AT "NO THIS IS TOO EARLY" AM. Do you sleep on your side? Sorry about your bruised ribs. Do you sleep on your stomach? Don't. Just...don't. The power of the vibrating disc will bruise your navel.Fortunately, most of these features are optional. I can tell the alarm to not bother with the flashing lights, and I can skip the Vibrating Disc O' Doom. However, I usually need one or both of these options, so I keep them on and accept the fact that I will be startled awake five days a week.As for my statement that this alarm works "most of the time."When I have to take a full dose of Benadryl, this alarm doesn't work. This is why I can't take the full dose. If I sleep through this ridiculous, loud, vibrating, flashing monstrosity of an introduction to the morning, I will sleep through literal axe murderers making their way through the house at full volume. And nobody needs that in their lives, especially first thing Monday morning.Buy this alarm if you really need to be awake at a specific time. Five stars because the alarm clock did not come with the Benadryl and, therefore, cannot be blamed for that unfortunate situation.