In an age where pretty much anyone with opposable thumbs is in possession of an all-singing, all-dancing, fancy Dan smartphone, the standalone alarm clock may seem like outmoded technology. You may compare to the way Victorian ‘knocker-uppers’ became equally defunct when alarm clocks themselves first became widely available.
But while smartphones all come packing an alarm app capable of disturbing even teenagers from their slumber, experts with brains immeasurably larger than ours in the fields of psychology (and something I’ll just label ‘sleep science’) are pointing a big scientific finger of blame at said smartphones as the cause of rising insomnia cases.
