So much light in the sky would not let his daughter sleep.
VOA: special.2009.03.28
And then we let the Lake Placid Lodge do what it does best: another fine meal, another gibbous moon, another night to sleep by the light of the fireplace.
It then waits till you fall asleep then starts the timer, waiting for you to get roughly 26.5 minutes of shuteye, before rousing you during a lightsleep cycle.
Instead of making a loud noise at a predetermined time, the Smart Alarm gently vibrates when you're in a lightsleep, somewhere around the time you'd like to wake up (up to 30 minutes before you've actually set it).