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World's Biggest Alarm Clock Shakes You Out of Bed

Posted by samzenpus on from the up-and-at-them dept.

tugfoigel writes "Built by "Kevin" for a contest, this computer-controlled alarm clock is touted as the world's largest. To be more specific, he 'mounted a large air cylinder to the head of [his] bed and a valve, controlled by a computer, which [he programmed] to wake [him] up in the morning.'"

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  1. Been done and 10x better years ago by Dahamma · · Score: 1, Troll

    Google is failing me now finding the video... but I remember reading about something SO much better almost 10 years ago.

    A Japanese engineer designed an integrated alarm clock bed for a contest his company put on. The bed would go through a series of increasing "motivations" to wake up, including:

    1. a normal alarm
    2. a recording of his boss yelling "Wake up! You're going to be late!"
    3. water spraying on his face
    4. a hydraulic lift that slowly raises the head of the bed until the apparently ridiculously sound sleeper gets dumped on the floor

    And this was back when creating said device was an actual embedded system, not just plugging a serial cable from your computer into a big motor and writing a few lines of code to make it go...

    Guaranteed karma points to anyone who can find the video...