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I saw both of them in the Sky Mall magazine when I was flying last week. Annoying to say the least.
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I was given a Clocky for a birthday present, and I have now entered a love-hate relationship with it.
Love because it does grant me one snooze before it runs away, and love because it actually wakes me up. Hate because it makes the most piercing, annoying, and irritating alarm noise of all time, and hate because it actually wakes me up.
It can be very hard to catch, especially in a dirty room. But every since I got back to school, and have to have my bed bunked, and because my roommate would beat me up if I started chasing it around the room every morning, I have come with a clever plan to foil Clocky's functions. I put him on his side, so when we tries to run away, he just spins in circles.
So Miro, I would endorse Clocky. I don't know about that flying one, however...
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I think I'm going to stick with something a bit more traditional. That is, if I can find a seller that will ship to AK (and preferably without charging more for the shipping than the clock itself costs!).
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My father had a bowl of bolts poised over a tin tray tied to the winder of his alrm clock. When the bell rang, the winder wound and the bowl off the edge of the table and the bols crashed onto the tray below.
Apparently it casued complaints from the rest of his fellow students...
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I thought about building an alarm clock that slowly tilts the bed starting from the wake-up time to about 15 or 20 minutes later. (Probably that parameter should be an input, tilt rate.) Anyway, then there's got to be no easy way to shut it off, short of getting up and thinking a long time and doing some complicated mental task like rewriting the program. It's got a weight scale built in so it knows when you're up and slowly resets the bed toward the horizontal as soon as you get up. (Another input = reset rate.) The alarm function lasts for like 4 hours, so if you try to fool it by sleeping on the floor for a little while then getting back in bed, it still tilts when it feels your weight on the bed. If you wait too long to get up, your mattress and everything simply falls off onto the floor, with you still on it. Then you have to rebuild your bed before you can sleep the next night.
Hmmm, I still see a loophole, now that I think of it. Once the mattress falls, you can just sleep on the mattress on the floor, and forget about the bed entirely. Maybe the mattress stays with the bed as it tilts, just letting your pillows and blankets and all fall off, and your body too, of course.
I think something like that might work as an alarm clock for me. Anything short of that probably won't. Do you think my invention will make a fortune? If so, I will sell it in my company (Hatrack, Inc.) along with our line of bottle air called Athelas, and our purring recliners, which we have yet to think of a catchy name for. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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Tatiana - Have you ever seen Wallace and Gromit?
Tante - That clock is sweet.
I have been known to sleep next to a blaring radio alarm (I mean painfully loud) that woke up the rest of the house. I wouldn't even wake up when my mom came in and turned off the alarm. That hasn't happened in a long time, though. More recently, I'll turn off the alarm without waking up.
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There was one time on my mission when I was double transferred into a new area (IE. they put me and my new companion in the area at the same time), that the previous guys staying there decided to play a prank. They left the most annoying alarm clock ever, and set it for 3:30AM. As soon as it went off, I jumped out of bed and smashed it to pieces.
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quote:Originally posted by C3PO the Dragon Slayer: NOOOOO! An alarm clock that makes you have to get out of bed and run around to shut it up and take vengeance!
Great, now I'm too awake to get back to sleep.
Heh heh. At one point when I was living in a dorm (on-campus apartment, actually), I started turning off my alarm clock without waking up, thus missing my daily 7 am class. So, I started putting the clock across the room. That way I would have to get up to shut it off. But within three or four days I was getting up, walking across the room, shutting the stupid thing off, and going back to bed without ever waking up. I'm not sure that having to chase the clock would make that much difference. I'd probably just get used to that, too.
By the way, right now I use the alarm on my cell phone to wake up in the morning. That way I don't throw it - don't want to break it. Otherwise, throwing it would be a real possibility. 6:30 am is really early.
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The idea of the clock that runs away is that it runs away somewhere different each time, you sometimes (or often, depending on the state of your bedroom) have to get up and actively chase it, and in the process have to use your mind, which in turn wakes you up.
It's funny how the morning-time brain fights so hard against the sensible rules set forth by the logic of the night-time brain.
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