Withings partners with Spotify for a connected alarm clock

French connected-gadgets maker Withings already has a device that improves your sleep; now, it wants to help you wake up as well

The Withings Aura Connected Alarm Clock, launched during the IFA show in Berlin, lets you wake up with any of the 30+ million songs in Spotify's catalog.

The Clock is essentially a pared-down version of Withings' Aura Total Sleep System (formerly known just as Aura) — it does not have the sleep monitoring sensor, but it does have the device's main unit, a light and sound-emitting periscope-like gadget that both soothes you to sleep and wakes you up Read more...