Good Vibrations Bryce Aisaka Justin Beaver Tony Felice Skanda Mohan

Motivation Motivation: Waking up is HARD. The worst part is the alarm clock. They’re generally noisy, ugly devices that need to be separately reset every night. Also, they are a pain to carry around. Kind of like that-----  Concept: A silent, portable, comfortable, battery- operated, phone activated, vibrating pillow cover.

Competitive Analysis Most similar to our product: –Vibrating under-pillow alarm clock Our competitive advantage: Good Vibrations is non-intrusive. You can put your arm under your pillow comfortably and without fear of moving the alarm clock. –Pillow with alarm clock in it. Our competitive advantage: With Good Vibrations, you can keep your current pillow and not have to worry about the comfort of a new pillow. –The Bed Shaker alarm clock Our competitive advantage: you don’t need to be on your bed to use the alarm clock. Ours is wireless and mobile, and will only wake one person up.

Requirements Silent: Needs to make minimal noise. Portable: Must be easy to re-package. Battery Operated: Does not need grounding. Phone activated: Need to only know how to set our alarm in our phone => removes need to learn another device UI. Pillow-Cover: Customizable for any pillow. Fail-Safe: Sound is emitted only if person does not wake up after set time limit. Needs to wake someone up.

Tech. Specs. (tentative) Bluetooth-enabled cell phone Bluetooth receiver Vibrating motors Actuator to activate the motors Cordless power supply