I need one of these

stagolee

Snooze button addicts defeated by runaway clock

If you have an unhealthy addiction to the snooze button on your alarm clock, you may appreciate the latest invention from MIT's Media Lab. Clocky is an alarm with an ingenious method for rousing even the most dedicated morning dozer. After you hit the snooze button, the contraption rolls off the bedside table and zooms away on a set of wheels to some other part of the room, finding a new hiding place every day. When the alarm sounds again, simply finding Clocky ought to be strenuous enough to prevent even the doziest owner from going back to sleep.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18524926.500

*adele*

he he he sounds very clever
My alarm goes off and i just go back to sleep its so annoying then i wake up at 8.00 and am late for school every day

DEmeant0r

I think everyone needs this. Especially me.

Waltons

It'd probably be cheaper to rig up some sort of device to electrocute you when you press the snooze button.

Piste

Iwant it Iwant it I want it I want it I want it. No more getting up at half 8 for me...

stagolee

Waltons wrote:

It'd probably be cheaper to rig up some sort of device to electrocute you when you press the snooze button.

or something that electrifys the bed after the second whack of the snooze, that would get ye moveing in the morning

NotMe

Waltons wrote:

It'd probably be cheaper to rig up some sort of device to electrocute you when you press the snooze button.

That's what I was thinking when I started reading the thread.

rubadub

You should have to hold down the button for 10seconds the second time

Tobias Greeshman

That sounds so cool, but if I had me one of these, Id probably end up glueing the little fecker to the locker. Then Id be happy hitting that snooze button.

Hobbes

Or have a few basins of water just below the bedside table. lets see it escape that way.

:xRachx:

I can't believe it's finally been invented. I really need one! How much are they? And where can i get one from? This would really help me stop being late for school EVERY morning!!! Thankyou hueva invented it!

*Angel*

I need one too!

I'd probably end up smashing it by the second morning though, I love my lie-ins too much.

Mimikyu

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Imposter

Well you could always do what i used to do and set a second alarm 10 minutes after the first but at the other side of the room!

seamus

It would also require some sort of lock on the power button, since I'd just get into the habit of turning it off instead of hitting snooze.

Keyzer

Waltons wrote:

It'd probably be cheaper to rig up some sort of device to electrocute you when you press the snooze button.

Thats what I need, electrocution, no matter what I have tried in the past I can never get up on time, and now its really plssing me off.. I envy people who get up early all the time...

passive

I have an attic room... i thought this was a cool idea until i realised how useless it would be when it hops off the table and falls down a hole before wandering around the landing leaving me blissfully asleep.

Good idea apart from that

Thumper Long

the best alarm is an old trick, buy one of those mechanical alarm clocks with the bells on top and put it in a pot on the far side of the room 1. it will make a hell-of-a-rattle nad 2. you will definitely have to get up to turn it off, 3. set your alarm for when you have to get up, so you sont have the luxury of a few more minutes, my sister used to set her first alarm for 5:30 and her second alarm for 7:30 so she reckoned it tricked here into thinking she had a great ly-in, but she's dulally anyway. ingredient 1: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/222px-Windup_alarm_clock.jpg

Ingredient 2

http://www.rhc.rdg.ac.uk/olib/images/elearning/The%20Victorian%20Countryside/zooms/cooking_pot_59_387.jpg

result = perfect alarm clock, much cheaper than the MIT clock and available immediately

ivylooloo

Here is an actual picture of Clocky....

http://www.msnusers.com/66s182v0k5u9eiuufi647mjrn0/Documents/Clocky.jpg

bbblueyes

Keyzer wrote:

I envy people who get up early all the time...

I don't, I hate them. They're not normal people.