The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock 639
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!"
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"Why not just get up when the alarm goes off the first time? I always wake up and face the day with a smile."
"I disabled the snooze button on my clock so I always have to get up"
You know . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Luckily my Boss doesn't read slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Fantastic (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe if the clock rolled its way onto my bed and started harassing me that might do the trick, but I'm far enough from being a morning person that having the alarm going off won't stop me from snoozing, no matter where it is or how long it keeps going.
My universal snooze button: (Score:5, Funny)
It would never make it (Score:5, Funny)
Wait (Score:5, Funny)
That way, you don't get a chance to hit the snooze button.
Heh, or make it run around WHEN it's alarm is on..
That would be very annoying and would wake you up faster with moving sound
Heh, annoying alarm clocks.. (Score:3, Funny)
I reckon this here alarm clock would mysteriously shatter into many pieces after one to many attempts to try and hit the snooze button again
Great... (Score:5, Funny)
Seems strangly apt here.
They'd be wise not to include a warranty (Score:5, Funny)
Me: "It uh... broke"
Clockly Repair Man: "it rather looks as if it was smashed with a hammer, repeatedly"
Me: "well it fell... into... a bag of hammers"
Thank you, MIT. (Score:5, Funny)
You've now created a robot that opposes the will of carbon-based lifeforms by design.
It's sole purpose, bringing suffering to humanity.
AND THEN YOU BOOBY-TRAPPED THE OFF SWITCH.
Buncha friggin' geniuses./P
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Prior art. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I don't need it if .. (Score:5, Funny)
Cheaper alternatives are available (Score:5, Funny)
Not only will you not hit the snooze button, but you get to hear the doppler effect each morning!
Re:Luckily my Boss doesn't read slashdot (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Fantastic (Score:1, Funny)
For shame! Clocky is not that kind of clock!
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* I already saw this on Fark yesterday.
* I even heard it on a local talk radio show yesterday.
* I also heard it on George Noorey (CoastToCoastAM/Art Bell) lastnight.
Lawsuit waiting to happen... (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Cheaper alternatives are available (Score:5, Funny)
My Alarm Clock (Score:5, Funny)
MY room... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps he drives a Sob?
Re:Why hit snooze then? (Score:3, Funny)
Like what? Setting it to receive both the conservative talk radio station and the Ranchero music station at the same time?
Re:Prior art. (Score:4, Funny)
Oh My God! (Score:3, Funny)
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Everyone knows that.
Re:Prior art. (Score:4, Funny)
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Ugh (Score:1, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new devious rolling clock overlords.
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(Did you think I was kidding? [primus.ca] Bwahahaha!)
Holy Crap! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A simpler solution (Score:5, Funny)
"In this isle we have the Guantonimo Bay model..."
Yeah, I guess Clocky will roll off into the corner (Score:3, Funny)
best alarm = glass of water before bed (Score:5, Funny)
if you absolutely HAVE to get up - the most reliable
alarm clock is a glass of water before bed.
j.
Give this woman a job! (Score:2, Funny)
"You've hit my snooze alarm again and haven't updated to Longhorn service pack 2. It looks like you are in a purely vegetative state; prepare to have your tubes removed."
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2)In Soviet Russia, You run away from alarm clock.
3) ??
4) Profit!
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I hope that clock can move quickly... (Score:2, Funny)
The unperfect alarm clock... (Score:5, Funny)
First they yell at you. "Daddy, it's time to wake up!"
Then, they start beating on you.
Finally, they pry your eyes open.
Just dandy fun at 6am on a Sat or Sun morning.
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(was that already done? I hope not...)
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Re:best alarm = glass of water before bed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I already have a good solution (Score:3, Funny)
if i hit the snooze button too many times, she takes my covers and occasionally hits me with her pillow.
it's a good system.
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I already have something like that... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Prior art. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Another solution (Score:1, Funny)
I have an alarm clock too (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Prior art. (Score:5, Funny)
I think you're screwed.
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However, I then found that the sudden dread that she might've smashed the crap out of my $5000 laptop made me get up right quick.
Re:best alarm = glass of water before bed (Score:5, Funny)
Wow. In what bizarre alternate universe did you think we'd want to know that?
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During the whole de-wheeling process I would have a grin on my face...because I'm a morning person.
Bloody annoying! (Score:2, Funny)
It was a spherical droid type thing with weights and motors and motion/proximity sensors and all sorts of things inside it, and some way of telling if you were asleep or not.
As soon as you dropped off, this fucker would run away and hide, rolling over as much junk as possible. When it was time to go off, it would screech with a 120dB siren from a rape alarm, and as soon as it saw you approaching it would try to escape, by thwacking down a pneumatic thingy to jump around the room, possibly attack you, electrocute you, and yes, turning the fucker off was gonna be hard.
How pissed was i when i read about this in the newspaper the other day. That, and in this thread, everyone else has come up with pretty much the same ideas I did, although 2 years later.
should have patented that fucker. Has this sort of thing happened to loads of other people here, or am i the only one?
Snooze button? Pah, get a 2 year old (Score:5, Funny)
Then, he starts hitting me. I've had my alarm clock disconnected for months. Waste of electricity.
Flawed design (Score:3, Funny)
My floor? It'll make it all of two feet before getting caught at the Ephel Duath of papers, books, and clothes on the floor.
Minutes later, when the alarm sounds again, the sleeper must get up out of bed and search for Clocky.
I think not! They really should look at the habits of people who *need* a devious alarm clock and hurry out an all-terrain model
Obligatory reply (Score:2, Funny)
Has a Snooze Button Though (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Heh (Score:2, Funny)
Day 1:
{alarm buzzer sounds}
"You have to go to work!"
Day 2:
{alarm buzzer sounds}
"You have to go to work!"
Day 3:
{alarm buzzer sounds}
"You have to go to work!"
Day 4:
{alarm buzzer sounds}
"You have to go to work!"
Day 5:
{alarm buzzer sounds}
"You have to go to work!"
Somehow I don't feel that will help me any.
Luckily my wife doesn't read slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
Robert
Works exactly once. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Alarming alarms (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Another option (Score:3, Funny)
When I wake up, I generally have no idea who I am, where I am, what I'm supposed to be doing... I sometimes have the feeling that if I could just get out of bed, things would become more clear, but I can't remember how to do that. I've slept through about anything you can think of, including fire alarms and earthquakes.
As for naturally waking up with the sun rise, I think my wires are crossed. I generally start getting tired at sunrise, and wake up at sunset.
My internal clock also likes to play pranks on me. Like if I have something really, really important and I have to be there at 10:00, then I'll sleep through my many alarms and wake up naturally at 10:00 sharp. Except it takes me 30 minutes to actually get there. Gee, thanks internal clock.
I also can't use any method of tricking myself. I just can't do it. I'm much more witty at finding excuses to stay in bed than I am at tricking myself out of bed. On top of that, if I sleep naturally I frequently sleep for 16 hours straight. I don't even wake up to pee - I manage to hold it in somehow.
I've seriously run out of options, short of hiring someone to come into my room, drag me out of bed, and stick me into a tub of freezing water. Even then, I'd probably manage to fall asleep in the tub of water.
Re:You know . . . (Score:3, Funny)
I had a "baseball" alarm clock in the 80's. the only way to hit snooze was to throw it. next time the alarm went off you HAD to get out of bed to hit it, and that typically would wake you enough to stay up.
Unless you left your bedroom door open and you threw it out into the hall where it rolled downstairs and you finally woke 2 hours later after 1st period exams were finished....
Re:I already have a good solution (Score:2, Funny)
bathroom dream (Score:2, Funny)
Now I have to pinch my leg every time I take a leak JUST to make sure I'm not dreaming of being awake and thinking about dreaming.
Re:I don't need it if .. (Score:1, Funny)
"I used to have the body of a Greek God, now I have the body of a god damn Greek".
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awesome (Score:2, Funny)
lies, dirty lies (Score:3, Funny)
I have a cheaper... (Score:2, Funny)
You missed one (Score:5, Funny)
Re:best alarm = glass of water before bed (Score:3, Funny)
Thank you Ralph Wiggum.
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Not only is the technology overcomplicated, but the life of the clock is only 4 days for most non-MIT mortals:
From TFS "when you press the snooze bar, runs off into a corner, a different hiding place every day". Now my bedroom has only four corners, this may be fine for MIT folks with their new buildings [bbc.co.uk], but what use is it for me! I'll have to move bedroom every fifth day!
As a side note, it would be interesting if the clock could move in 3 dimensions... in 2 dimensions our random paths are always bound to meet, but in 3D it could provide me with an infinite amount of frustration!
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You are telling a crowd of soda drinking, caffiene soap using, programming code monkeys to get some exercise?
Good luck with that.
In other news today, a group of lobbyists confronted to the pope, asking him to be less Catholic.
Re:Hey, it's much bettter... (Score:3, Funny)