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P2P Alarm Clock Service

Posted by samzenpus on from the dial-n-for-nerd dept.

bs0d3 writes "Instead of waking up to a regular alarm clock, TalkO'Clock will let others help you get out of bed. The service allows you to choose whether you want to be called by a male or a female stranger, and it has a robot – CallO'Bot – lined up in case no one is available at the time you have to wake up. All completely anonymous of course." Not sure why this is better than your phone alarm, but if you're starving for human contact this might not be a bad option.

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  1. What's the catch? by chebucto · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This isn't so much 'too good to be true' as it is 'too weird to be true'.

    Remember the 4853th rule of the internet: find out where they get their money.

    At first blush I'm guessing they're scamming for access to people's facebook data. What other angle they have, I don't see.

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