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AKATSUKI Air — a Portable Air Wake-Up Device

What is AKATSUKI Air?

It's the world's first palm-sized wake-up device, powered by air. At the time you set in the smartphone app, it pumps air into an air cushion placed under your bedding, gently lifting your body to support waking up physically.

Air-powered wake-up devices themselves have existed for over half a century, and their powerful wake-up performance has made them especially popular among railway workers. Even the consumer models, however, were large and expensive, putting them out of reach for most people. AKATSUKI Air was born from a wish to make this kind of air-powered wake-up device affordable for everyone and usable anytime, anywhere.

How it works

Setting the wake-up time in the app at night and placing the air cushion under the bedding — At night, set your wake-up time in the app and place the air cushion under your bedding.

The air cushion inflating at wake-up time and lifting the body — At your wake-up time, the air cushion inflates and naturally lifts your body.

Product features

Powerful airflow (10 kPa)
Palm-sized
Quiet by design
App-connected
USB-C powered

The last-one-mile problem of waking up

You're sure you woke up once to your alarm, yet before you know it you've slipped back under the covers and into a dream. Almost everyone has had this experience at least once. We'd like to call this the "last-one-mile problem of waking up." There's a surprisingly large gap between the moment you first wake and full alertness, and a sound-based alarm alone can't bridge it. Putting the alarm far away to force yourself up still feels unpleasant, and you dive right back into bed on impulse. Light-based alarms, too, simply don't work for some people.

An air-powered wake-up device offers a one-of-a-kind experience: it clears the wall that sound and light can never get over by slowly lifting your body and changing your blood flow, carrying you across that gap without discomfort.

Who it's for

People who long to become a morning person and devour books about it, but keep giving up.
People who absolutely cannot oversleep before something important the next morning.
People who want the ideal morning that lets them perform at peak productivity all day.
People who want to wake up quietly without disturbing the sleep of those they live with.

Development story

Behind the development of AKATSUKI Air lies a bitter memory of the creator's own. The day before a flight, despite setting several alarms before going to sleep, he turned every one of them off without realizing it and woke up just an hour and a half before departure. With a taxi as his last hope, he arrived one minute before the gate closed and barely made it — but the tuition (the taxi fare) came at a steep price.

This became the trigger to search for an alarm that would guarantee waking up. After investigating every kind of alarm, he bought a certain air-powered wake-up device renowned as the strongest alarm and favored by railway staff. It lived up to its reputation, and moved by how reliably it woke him, the creator felt this technology Japan can be proud of deserved to be known more widely around the world. He set out to export it, only to run into major walls: a high unit price, heavy weight, and incompatible power plugs.

So he wondered whether it might be possible to build, with the latest technology and at low cost, an air-powered wake-up device that was small, light, and easy to carry, ran on a laptop AC adapter, and matched that same wake-up performance. But delivering enough power to lift the body while keeping it compact, low-power, and low-cost — and still quiet, with air that escapes naturally from the cushion — proved far harder than imagined. After actually trying and comparing many driving principles and building numerous prototypes, a system with the ideal balance was finally completed.

Vision

The AKATSUKI Ecosystem, pursuing the ideal morning from every angle

An ideal morning is the foundation of an ideal life. AKATSUKI is not merely an "alarm" — we plan to grow it into an ecosystem of services built around the theme of the "ideal morning," useful from many angles. Stay tuned.