Puzzle alarm clock
Over at BB Gadgets, Rob posts about this cleverly annoying alarm clock that requires you to put the three pieces in the correct holes to shut it off.Link
Over at BB Gadgets, Rob posts about this cleverly annoying alarm clock that requires you to put the three pieces in the correct holes to shut it off.Link
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I imagine this alarm clock would go the way of all my alarm clocks--flying across the room--a lot quicker.
This clock makes you solve the puzzle of tabletop anti-gravity. Check out this successful contestant and how the yellow piece defies gravity.
I've never understood the trend to complicate alarm clocks in an effort to wake people up faster. Hell, I have trouble figuring out how to answer the PHONE when I'm woken from a deep sleep, much less trying to play "square peg in a round hole" at six in the morning.
Our sleepy selves are much less capable of complicated tasks than our awake selves. For many of us, our sleepy selves are also much less responsible than our awake selves, hence much more willing to sleep late and blow off class/work. Complicated alarm clocks are hacks to make sure it's the awake self, not the sleepy self, who's in charge when decisions about whether to blow off class/work are made.
yeah none of these alarm clock gimmicks really work. Short of a catapult to launch me out of bed and into a bath of either scalding hot or ice cold water, no alarm can keep me from shutting it off and going back to bed.
Seyo!
Keep it to yourself, Do Not Want!
Laughed out loud. That is hilarious!
Yeah, I've been continuously disgusted by the inventive (though ultimately fruitless) attempts to create a functional alarm clock that does not sow the seeds of its own destruction. I wrote about it here.
Bah to your gimmicks, alarm clock industry. The only way to wake me up is to hire a sumo wrestler to pick me up out of bed and lob me headfirst into a bowl of coco puffs.
I wish I could sleep long enough to require an alarm clock. Unfortunately, I often naturally wake up after about 5 or 6 hours of sleep, and can't fall back asleep.
All of the sleep remedies are geared toward those who can't fall asleep, not those who can't stay asleep.
They're the wrong trousers Grommit, and they've gone WRONG!
just build a bed that folds down away from the wall so you either get up or continue sleeping on the floor
This is one of the better ideas I've seen so far, but still not a great solution. Good for about three days, I estimate, before it's destroyed.
I want an alarm clock that senses when I'm in shallow sleep and gently wakes me up then. Preferably towards the end of my dreams.
What's wrong in having the alarm clock out of an arm's reach? Last time I've jumped out of bed was when I've forgot to charge my mobile, and by 6am it was happily reminding me it needed to be fed. After 8 years, I kinda hoped it would be less of a baby, but nooooooooo...
This would be great for me! I sleep like the dead and turn off alarms in my sleep. The only time I ever had an alarm that worked was one that required two buttons to be pushed at the same time to turn off, the buttons were on opposite sides of the alarm and you had to use both hands.
I can push one button in my sleep no problem, but two using both hands... no way. I woke up most days standing up with the alarm clock in my hands.
I imagine this would be similar.
I love this actually! I've overheard or turned off every alarm clock I've ever had, but this one gets me out of bed, and I wake up too. And I'm NOT a morning person.