Sleeping next to a snorer is like a perpetual hell from which escape can only be achieved by one partner being banished to the couch. Old tricks like sewing a tennis ball into the back of the snorer’s pajamas (so he can’t lie on his back where he is more likely to snore) don’t always work, but the Snore Activated Nudging Pillow might do the trick.

The pillow is a slightly friendlier alternative to nudging or pushing your partner in the middle of the night to stop the snoring. It contains a microphone that picks up the distinctive sonic pattern of snoring. When it does, an internal bladder inflates, prompting the snorer to change sleeping positions. It lifts part of the pillow four to seven inches and then immediately deflates, which should be enough movement to make the snorer roll over without waking them.

The microphone sensitivity can be adjusted, so if the non-snoring partner is a heavy sleeper the pillow can be set to inflate only at the loudest snores. Although the pillow won’t stop a snorer’s nocturnal noise-making for good, it might at least help make the nights more bearable. The $149.99 price tag is pretty steep, but it’s cheaper than couples counseling and may even reduce the number of nights spent sleeping on the couch.

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It seems like the vast majority of us don’t get enough sleep at night. And a lack of sleep means a very difficult time getting out of bed in the morning. If you find yourself hitting turning the alarm clock off in a sleepy haze and then ending up dismally late for work a little too often, the Alarm Clock Pillow concept from Seung Jun Jeong is just the thing to get you up and going.

Rather than a noisy alarm clock that jars you awake, the Alarm Clock Pillow gently vibrates to shake you from your slumber. If you don’t get up, the pillow will know – because it can sense the weight of your lazy head on it. It will keep shaking until you get out of bed to face the day.

You set the alarm by pulling the bright tab on the edge out to the appropriate number of hours. From a quick nap to a full eight or nine hours of shut-eye, this pillow seems able to accommodate just about every sleeping schedule.

The design looks like it could use a bit of refining, beginning with the mechanism to set the clock. Not everyone wants to sleep in full hour increments, and it looks like it would be difficult to be precise with the pull tab. It would be great if the vibration got increasingly strong the longer the sleeper stayed in bed. But the overall idea seems like a fabulous concept, and one that any notorious over-sleeper would be inclined to try out.

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