Sound machine clocks

Twenty-one sounds, and what they are

Five are noise colours, pink and brown among them. Four are fan loops, which are the ones people reach for when a room is too quiet rather than too loud. Six come from outside: rain, thunder, a brook, wind, waves, birds. The rest are two lullabies, a heartbeat, a shushing loop, and a yoga and meditation track. A sleep timer stops whichever one you choose.

Why the speaker matters

A sound machine with a small speaker cannot do rain. It does a hiss that your ear identifies as a speaker within about a minute, which is the opposite of what you wanted. The UE268S runs a 10W stereo driver. The low end of rain and brown noise arrives as weight rather than as static, and the same driver doubles usefully as a Bluetooth speaker.

If a child sleeps in the room

Worth saying plainly, because we would rather you heard it from us: paediatric guidance is that some infant sleep machines can reach hazardous levels, and the advice is to place the machine as far from the baby’s head as possible and to run it for a short time rather than all night. That advice applies to ours as much as to anyone’s. Put it across the room, keep the volume low, and use the sleep timer.

The rest of the machine

A 10W pad on the lid and a USB port on the back, so the phone and the watch both charge where they already are. Eight alarm sounds, a full-range display dimmer, 12- or 24-hour format, and a daylight-saving change that happens without you.

The UE268S is our answer to the evening. For the morning half of the same problem there is the sunrise light, and the guide to sleep sounds explains what each of the twenty-one is for. Everything we make sits on the front page of the Odokee range.

Not medical advice. Sunrise lights and sound machines are consumer products, not treatments. Nothing here is medical advice; if sleep is a persistent problem, speak to a clinician.