The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock

wired_parrot writes "If you have trouble waking up, try this: MIT media lab has created an alarm clock that, when you press the snooze bar, runs off into a corner, a different hiding place every day. Try hitting the snooze bar again now!"

Comments

I don't need it if ..

[Anonymous Coward]

If the inventor is around, I bet I will never sleep. Geek girl folks .. there is a hope for all of us.

Re:I don't need it if ..

[Anonymous Coward]

If her friend is around, I'm not sure I want her peeing all over the bed...

Re:I don't need it if ..

[wavelet]

man that thumbnail size is really annoying. its so small its useless. how am i supposed to efficiently goto through and virtually stalk her to find good pictures like this , this , this or this

Wind up alarm clock in the closet

[Barlo_Mung_42]

When I lived in Anchorage Alaska for a winter I found that I was really affected by the lack of day light. I had to put a second wind up alarm clock on the top shelf in my closet across the room.
Even then I woke up one morning on the floor in front of my closet with the clock in my hand, late for work again.
Not long after that I moved back down South.

Re:the girl who made it...

[Anonymous Coward]

If you wanted to show a picture of the girl who made this, you should have shown this one.

Re:A simpler solution

[PetoskeyGuy]

I did this in High School when I first learned about transformers (electrical not the robot toys). It's an ok idea, but it's hard to wire yourself up before bed and keep connected. Plus just like a snooze alarm you eventually learn to sleep through it. :o)

Another alternative

[cgenman]

Apparently a company just released a watch that monitors your sleep cycles and wakes you up when you're at the lightest point in your sleep cycle.

Does anyone know if there are other implementations of this? Devices which are designed to wake you up when you hit the lightest part of your cycle?

Re:Another alternative

[Jedi Alec]

Nevertheless, If one has for an example a sleeping cycle of 2 hours, in quite a few cases it'd be better to sleep for 6 hours and then be woken up as opposed to sleeping 7 and having to drag oneself out of the middle of a REM phase. The point in your sleeping cycle during which one wakes up heavily affects how one feels at that moment.

*Ducks for the massive amounts of incoming woody comments*

Re:Another solution

[jackbird]

I want an alarm clock that stops only if it is hurled hard enough.

Here you go.

Re:Here's an idea:

[mikeswi]

Just FYI, that space pen story is just an urban legend.

Re:The typical things Slashdot users will say:

[sh00z]

I once had a girlfriend with serious "wake-up issues." I got her something like this, which seems to accomplish the same goal as Clocky, but does it by launching a projectile across the room, and requiring you to re-insert it to turn off the alarm.

Re:Another solution

[Pfhorrest]

I used to live in a room that was taller than it was wide, so to make efficient use of it I built a support structure on top of which I put my bed, and under which was my closet. This meant my bed was about 5ft off the ground and I had to jump to get in or out of it.

I had so much trouble with just turning my alarm off in the morning and going back to sleep that I set the alarm clock clear across the room, requiring me to quickly wake up and LEAP out of bed (literally!) to kill it. Eventually, I got the muscle memory down so perfect that I could throw off my covers, leap down and smack the snooze, and just reverse the motion and be back in bed again.

I don't think any amount of snooze annoyance will keep someone dedicated to sleeping in from doing so. Chances are if I had this Clocky thing, I'd get so fscking annoyed with it I'd break it and then sleep in a few hours late just out of spite for having been annoyed.