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When the Alarm Clock Runs and Hides
bbbbryan writes to tell us about the commercialization of the elusive alarm clock prototyped at the MIT Media Lab a couple of years back. This alarm clock actually runs, hides from you, and beeps to ensure that you'll be awake enough not to go back to sleep by the time you find it and get it shut up. Detroit News has a writeup on the device, which you can buy from the inventor's site for $50.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvNGnkY_S6I
Enjoy!
wouldn't it be cheaper to wire a capacitor to your snooze button?
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A very valid reason for preserving the second amendment.
Rather make one out of Lego Mindstorms. At lest then when you smash it, it only de-bricks and you can build it back together again!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
before I punt that motherf**ker out the window.
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"To do is to be." -Jean-Paul Sartre
"Do-be-do-be-do." -Frank Sinatra
MMS' sentient alarm clock.
I was in a bar in Ensenada, drinking a warm beer quickly and trying to remind myself that I hadn't murdered anyone, when my alarm clock caught up with me. Little bastard.
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This might be more practical than strapping my alarmclock to my cat.
A combination of this idea could be combined with a prank a friend of mine pulled not too long ago.
He was studying computer engineering and doing stuff with embedded devices. He took a chip, a light sensor, and a small speaker and hid it in the room of one of his roommates. He programmed the device to sense when the lights went out and then it would sound off at full volume. The device would continue to sound until the lights came back on, at which time it would go silent. After the lights went out again, the timer would reset and the alarm would go off in another ten minutes...
-br
There already is a fast moving device that emits a loud annoying sound at the shopping centre (mall). They're called children.
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...falls off the bedside locker and rolls about aimlessly more like.
/. I was expecting some real smart features such as:
This being
o Learns the layout of your bedroom
o Jumps off the locker before it goes off
o Hides in the optimum place
o Doesn't hide in the same place twice
o Has a proximity sensor - runs away as you try to pick it up.
Based on the Yew-Toob clips, I reckon this gadget would last about 5 minuted in my house. It's simply too easy to hit with a stick.
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In our room it would fall straight into a pile of clothing and stay there. This will be great for the sorts of people who have a hard time getting up but somehow manage to keep their bedrooms 100% tidy, but I suspect that the intersection of those two sets is small.
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A Segway for my parakeet.
What?
>>This alarm clock actually runs, hides from you, and beeps to ensure that you'll be awake enough not to go back to sleep by the time you find it and get it shut up.
Also known as kids. Though mine tend to scream rather than beep.
I'm pretty sure they still make automatic timed coffee makers. I say "still" because I remember a while back (probably 10 years ago, now that I think of it) there were a few incidents with timer-equipped Mr. Coffee machines that helped you get up in the morning by burning down your house. Unfortunately they may have phased out that added functionality, and now you have to settle for waking up to the smell of fresh-brewed coffee in the morning without that pleasant furniture-roast aroma. The good features always disappear.
My 15 year old stepson (who is now 23) had problems waking. so I built him an alarmclock that is very much like the one spongebob has.
I wired a foundry alarm klaxon to it. 115DB of unmuteable BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAPBT! the alarm clock was mounted to the wall across the room and had only 1 big red emergency shutdown button. if he did not get out of bed to his alarm and go over and press that button it went off.
The alarm went off only about 6 times before he was up in the morning on a regular basis. He took the alarm with him to college last time back. his response,"I have a pair of roommates that are incredibly lazy and will not get out of bed, so I always end up late to class as we car-pool."
I mentioned it was his car, he grinned and said, "No, this will do fine."
if you get the frequency low enough and loud enough there is not enough pillows to mute the sound to an acceptable level.
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