Philips Hf3485 Wake-up Light Therapy Plus White Features
- Light and sound gradually increase to gently wake you up
- Light increases for 30 minutes before your set alarm time
- Choice of Four Natural Sounds or Radio
- Safe and UV free
- Official Light Therapy product of the National Sleep Foundation
The Philips Wake-Up Light Plus HF3485 provides a more pleasant and natural way to wake up in the morning. Because there's nothing worse than being jarred awake by a blaring alarm clock, the Philips Wake-Up Light Plus, an Official Light Therapy Product of the National Sleep Foundation, wakes you in a natural way with light that increases gradually. The Wake-Up Light simulates the sunrise to help you greet the morning with an improved mood and energy level. Light gradually increases for 30 minutes before your alarm time to gently prepare your body to wake up and feel more energetic at the start of your day. With optional FM radio, a USB connection to connect to your favorite mp3 tunes, and free nature sound downloads, the Wake-Up Light Plus ensures waking up will be a pleasant experience.
Customer Reviews on Philips Hf3485 Wake-up Light Therapy Plus White
By Jann (Anaheim Hills)
It really works! Plus, if you and your spouse have different work schedules, it's a lot less disruptive to the other persons rest.
I have had this for a long time now. It took a long adjustment period as I was very sensitive to the light turning on at first. Now I have it set to the brightest setting and the radio blaring. My girlfriend hates it, but only because I wake up before her and it does a fantastic job of waking up both of us. I am starting to adjust to volume now too though, because the radio slowly gets louder and I am getting pretty good at turning it off and waking up before it gets too loud.
Whenever I am away from home and wake up in the dark, flipping on the light switch has become the single most dreaded part of my vacations. I love waking up with my eyes already adjusted to the light.
I do wish that the sunset feature was easier to set, and that it could be set for the same time every day. But it does help me fall asleep if I am having trouble.
By Khalid Abdullah Alharbi (Toledo, Ohio United States)
first it comes without the bulb and I had hard time to find the bulb that fits it and the radio reception is very hard to find good location for it then after one week it shutdown for good very bad one maybe but still
I bought this in Dec 2012. My Christmas present to myself. Definitely a "splurge," as I don't have money to throw around, but waking up has always been torture for me. Before that, I had 2 different cellphones with 3 different alarms on each: bells, buzzers, vibration ... early, right time, last chance ... and there were times when I slept through all of them.
It took me a few weeks to feel confident with the setting of the alarm. Don't wait 'til your tired & ready for bed to start setting up this device!
I guess I used it for a few weeks, and then we had a power outage. I'd been waking to radio, but lost all my radio station settings. I was traveling a lot for work, and hadn't figured out how to bring it on the road with me, so when I got home and found it had lost all its settings, I just unplugged it. (I had expected this thing to change my life, but I didn't have quite that experience.) A few weeks ago, I decided to plug it in and start using it again. Having used it, then not used it, and now using it again, I have to say that it does make a pretty big difference. I have it set to come on with NPR in the morning, so I get that 30 minutes of gradually increasing light, and then some news that engages my mind.
I still have the cellphone alarms set, but I'm relying on them less. There is that problem with the 3485 losing its programming if the power goes out for more than 15 mins. So if it goes out during the night, well ... I need to know that I'll wake up for work. I don't wake up naturally. Not til noon or so. So the phones are still there for me. But I find I don't snooze for 2 hours anymore. The light comes on, the news comes on, and then I'm ready to turn off the alarms and get up. Waking up isn't (and may never be) painless, but it's a lot less traumatic.
I got this model because the light bulb is replaceable. It seemed that everyone's biggest complaint with the other models was that the light would burn out, and that meant getting a whole new unit. When I've used the "natural sound" settings, I have used the "tapping" method to quiet the alarm. Maybe I have a light touch - it usually takes me several tries before I can make it snooze. I wonder if all that tapping when the light is hot takes a toll on the bulb?? Now that I wake to NPR instead, I just leave it on 'til I'm ready to leave.
A few things I still haven't figured out fur sure:
At first I thought the clock was slowly losing time, and then I thought it was gradually gaining time. Lately it has been right on. I don't know how an electronic clock keeps time, but anything other than right on worries me.
The light generates quite a bit of heat when it's on at full strength. I always turn it back to the OFF position, to be safe, before I leave for work; then I turn it back to the SET position at night, choosing either my weekend or weekday setting. I think if you get up without turning it off, the light and audio eventually turn themselves off, and I think they won't turn on again the next day (you actually have to re-set the alarm); if this is true, you can't use it to make your house look lived in while you're away.
So... I recommend it. I'm happy that I chose this particular model. It has some features I haven't used yet (hooking up a USB drive, for instance), but I'm pleased with the features I do use. I wish it was easier to set, and that it dealt with power outages differently - it would be great if it would preserve your settings, even if it didn't continue to keep time, for instance. I tried using the "wind down" feature at night, but it just wasn't for me. I think the light would get dim just when the book I was reading was getting good. I might try this again some day, with some less interesting reading material.
By Julio A M Neto (Brazil)
I was between 4 and 5 to give this and if it had a memory for every time the energy goes out it'd definitely be a 5 !
As a clock you can adjust to be awaken by birds, forest or some other cool sounds that could make you fall asleep again. There is also some other sounds to download from Philips website and plugging on the USB.
The previous version had an adaptor for iPod and I was expecting this to work with Android - but it does not. Although it does say on my S4 that there is a device connected probably the driver is not built for mobile devices.
You can set 2 different alarms with different sounds for each or select one of the 3 radios from memory previously set.
This new version has a nice setting that if you easily hit it then it goes for a snooze. On the older version bulbs used to burn VERY easily and this has the bulb replaceable for a normal car bulb (h7 if not mistaken).
Definetly a good buy and the experience of waking up with a dimming light is GREAT. Look on youtube for the chicken naturally waking up at 4 am lol. It's awesome and once you get it to normal, you'll love.
