User: heath_ams

Vibrating pillow, flashing lights..

On: Alarm Clocks for Heavy Sleepers?

How about this one?
Features:

• With its loud buzzer, flashing lamp and strong bed shaker, the Wake Assure will wake up even the deepest sleeper
• The super bright 2" display makes it easy to read the time - day or night
• Up to 95dB loud buzzer with adjustable volume and tone control to suit your hearing
• Strong bed shaker wakens even the deepest sleeper without disturbing others. The cord from the bed shaker to the clock is 77" long.
• It also makes a connected lamp flash to awaken you.
• While you are away, it can be set to turn on the connected lamp at pre-set times for added security.
• Has an Auto Snooze feature to suit your lifestyle.
• Large control buttons conveniently located for easy access.
• Battery to keep time in case of power outage (battery not included)

Sigma Designs - good or bad?

On: DVD Player With DVI Output

This is probably a good player. But it's just another incarnation of the Sigma Designs DVD kit.
See: Sigma Designs DVD Kits
And remember that Sigma Designs hasn't been too forthcoming with the OSS Community?
DivX Networks Press Release
XVID also has comments (look for "Sigma")
Anyway, there are several players out there already using these kits.
KISS Technology
Revoy -- to name a couple.
I bought one of these players myself (the KISS DP-500) and they are great, but still full of little bugs and the community is just building now to get into the GPL part of the source - just not sure how much of it we will be able to modify and now much will remain closed-source.
Here is a community of KISS owners so you can see what types of issues people are dealing with on these Sigma players.