As college students, we understand how imperative it is to have an adequate sleep schedule. We would not like to disturb any fellow roommates with our pesky alarm clocks, nor would we like to be disturbed by theirs. As urged by the Student Health Clinic at Georgia State University, “The average college student only gets around six hours of sleep per night. Recent research on college students and sleep indicates that insufficient sleep impacts our health, our moods, our GPA and our safety.” Alarm clocks shouldn’t be the reasons why some of us are not acquiring the minimum of eight hours of sleep we need every night. In addition, studies have shown that due to the nature of our sleep schedules being so fluctuant, the probability of spending our time in a deeper stage of the sleep cycle is amplified. The alarm clock, in essence, has a higher chance of not only depriving the individual but also the peers around them of that necessary stage of sleep. This, in turn, would exacerbate the effects of sleep inertia and lead to even worse days as a result of this and sleep deprivation.

The cochlea of the human ear is only capable of detecting frequencies ranging from twenty to twenty-thousand hertz (Hz). However, studies have manifested that aging has a direct correlation to the maximum frequency levels an individual can hear up to. This is indicative of the limited nature to what humans can hear. Hence, we present The Clök as a mechanism to individualize the audio of our alarm clocks to avoid the risk of waking others when they need not be wakened. The quintessential nature of our clock lies in that because of the inherent ability of humans to only hear up to a limited frequency, we will test the limits of the frequency per individual. Our Clök will have a range of a variety of frequencies that pertain to that single individual, and could be set so that the sole person waking to that alarm is the person who set it. Thus, we would not have our sleep schedules abrupted, nor would we impose that on others!

The benefits of our Clök are extensive! If you want to be woke, get Clök!

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