- Oh my God, oh my God it's so bad, it's so bad.
(upbeat music)
- I'm Chris! - And I'm Kevin!
- And today we are testing the.
- [Both] Sensor Wake alarm clock.
- It's not your regular, ordinary alarm clock.
It's gonna use three senses to wake you up.
Sense of sound, pretty normal.
Sense of sight, there's gonna be some light.
Like a glowing light. - 'Kay.
- And the third, smell.
This was created by a French teenager.
- A teenager! - Yeah, he, like a lot of us,
hated his alarm clock, and wanted
a new, more pleasant way of waking up.
- [Man] Do you guys know any French?
- Hola!
- That is Spanish. (laughing)
That was Spanish with a French accent.
- Hola!
This thing is gonna release an odor,
and the idea is that you don't even need
a sound to wake up, you'll wake up to the odor.
- So the company says on its website that
your olfactory, which is your sense of smell,
shuts down when you sleep and that
a strong smell can wake it back up.
But, there are scientists who doubt
that these smells actually can wake you up.
- Huh.
- So the science behind this a little sketch.
But, maybe the sound wakes you,
and then you smell the espresso.
- Yeah. - Or the French toast,
whatever it is, maybe that keeps you
from pressing the snooze button.
- So then we are saying then that the smell
will motivate you to get out of bed.
I guess the only thing left to do is to.
- Go to bed. - And then wake up.
- Yeah. - All right, let's do it.
- Won't translate the page on my.
- Sensor. (grunts)
(laughing) - [Man] Are you kidding me?
- Are we rolling on that?
- Getting ready for bed.
Got my alarm clock here.
- Going to bed here at 10:19.
All right so I'm gonna hit the alarm button.
- I have a few different scent options.
- [Man] We got orange juice,
I don't wanna wake up to orange juice.
- It does smell like orange juice, biscuit.
Ooh, that's kinda weird.
I don't know what it smells like but it's not a biscuit.
- Okay, petite biscuit.
(hissing)
God, that's (bleeps) terrible!
(gagging) Oh God!
That's petite biscuit.
Well I will say that this would motivate me
to get out of bed to turn it off.
- I'm gonna go with the orange juice.
Seems like a nice morning scent.
- [Chris] We'll put the summer melon in here, okay.
- Here goes nothing.
- We're back! - We're back.
- And we have gone to sleep
and we have woken up to a smell.
How did it go?
- I didn't wake up to a smell.
I woke up to the sound of the alarm clock.
I don't really smell anything at all.
So I woke up to the sound, like to the alarm itself.
And the light, the light was so faint
that the little bit of sunlight coming through.
- The light wasn't a thing. - Yeah, it was nothing.
- It's really just a smell clock.
- It's a sound clock to me.
So, did you think it worked?
- I definitely smelled it, and nothing was different.
I just hit snooze for 45 minutes.
Did the smell get me out of bed?
Did it wake me up joyfully?
No.
So there was no real change
in terms of this alarm clock being more effective
getting me out of bed.
Maybe I would have been more open to this thing
if I had a breakfast smell.
- Yeah.
If there was like a french toast
or a chocolate chip pancake. - Bacon, bacon.
You know after you cook bacon. - Yeah.
- And your whole apartment,
your whole kitchen smells like bacon?
Why can't you capture that smell?
- You should be able to.
- Benjamin Franklin bottled up electricity.
- That is true. - So you know,
you should bottle up bacon. - That is true.
So the idea is great.
The execution?
Not so good.
- How much does this cost? - It says 100 bucks.
- Would you buy it?
- If it did what it was supposed to do,
honestly I would.
- You would spend 100 bucks on an alarm clock?
- That could be worth it.
'Cause I'm gonna spend 40 bucks on an alarm clock anyway.
- What kind of alarm clock are you buying?
- Maybe 30, I don't know.
- When is the last time you looked at alarm clock prices?
- 2005. - Regardless.
I think we can now say that this product.
- Has been Inc. tested.
(sniffs) Oh don't do them together.