11 April 2012

The Unstoppable Alarm Clock


There is no snooze button. If you unplug it, a battery takes over. As wake-up time approaches, you cannot reset the alarm time.

It could be the world's most exasperating alarm clock. Once it goes off, to stop it you must get out of bed, go into the kitchen or bathroom, and punch the day's date into a telephone-style keypad. That's the only way to stop the loud 'ding-ding,' designed to sound like a customer angrily banging on a concierge bell at a hotel.

"Now I wake up before it goes off," said Sammut. "I subconsciously fear it and know I have to get up

a friend suggested he try and sell the device, he made a video demonstrating it, and posted that on kickstarter.com. That's a website where the general public can support creative ideas by investing in them financially.

"We raised over $150,000 over a month and a half and we currently have over 400 orders," said Sammut. Sammut has formed a company and is now trying to fill all the clock orders by the end of the summer.

He acknowledges there is one way to stop the alarm without getting out of bed. "You could smash it," said Sammut. But with a $350 price tag, that would be a really expensive way to sleep in.

20 comments:

  1. Ingenious. I was reading about an alarm clock that when it alarms it blows to pieces. The only way to stop the alarm is to find the pieces, now strewn around your bedroom, and fit them back together. That'll wake you up huh? I thought it was very clever. It was pricey as well.

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  2. OMG Helen, My engineering skills are poor at the best of times, but first thing in the morning.. trying to create a master piece from fragments of a noisy alarm clock... Id be better off slashing my writs lol

    I do all the above mentioned ..

    I set three alarms daily. I wind up snoozing through all of them .. changing alarm times. I would have to spend 30 to 60 minutes resetting and snoozing.. I could never cope with an unstoppable alarm.. no no no ..

    (plus.. half the time I dont recall the actual date.. )

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  3. DAmn, man, get a divorce!!!!

    That is the only way to shut up such an alarm clock!!!!

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  4. I bet my daughter would sleep through it anyway.

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  5. I prefer to wake up to music myself! :)

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  6. Try sleeping through a hungry cat sometime!!

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  7. Don't need an alarm clock, get up at 6:30am every morning without an alarm clock, once I'm up that's me up for the day!!
    It's pointless me setting an alarm cos I'm always up before it goes off. Ho-hum....

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  8. Sounds like Dave needs a bit of excitement in his life!!

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  9. Hi Bryce.. Its a bit of a worry if you are one of those people such as your daughter must be. I know that when I first started working and Glenn was living away from home during the fishing season.. I was paranoid about not being woken by my alarm. Hence the reason I set three. Problem is.. if you sleep through one.. your more than likely to sleep through the other two aswell.

    Now that glenn is living home, during the fishing season I sleep through his 3.00am and 3.15am alarm every morning. BUT I always wake with my alarms.

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  10. Yes Kae, I prefer music also.. and not WHAM loud.. I like a gradual crescendo.

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  11. Oh no Paul.. you just can not sleep when there is an annoying hungry cat.. Ive tried!

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  12. Dave.. I would really like to be in that situation.. Glenn wakes early.. and will only lay in bed ten or so minutes then he is out of bed ready to face what ever the day brings.

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  13. I dont know about that Paul


    "up at 6:30am every morning without an alarm clock, once I'm up that's me up for the day!!"..

    sounds to me as though Dave is on a good wicket lol

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  14. I tend to just wake up spontaneously so I rarely need an alarm. When my daughter was very young, though, she wanted to be able to wake herself up, so she got an alarm clock, put it next to her bed, and set it. This clock had a very loud, clanging bell for an alarm - very piercing noise. In the morning the alarm went off and it kept going...and going...and going. Finally, I got up and turned the thing off. Later when I woke her up, she was angry and accused me of not letting her get up to the sound of her own alarm. She didn't believe me when I told her the thing had been ringing in her ear for around 15 minutes and did a fine job of waking me up in another room down the hall some 25-30 feet away. After that, she didn't bother with alarms and just let me wake her up.

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  15. There have been a few times when Glenn has had to trudge upstairs from the kitchen (downstairs) to turn off my alarm, which is within arms reach from my head on my pillow in the bedroom, because Ive slept through it. Each, of the three alarms I set continually sound for 60 minutes if not turned off.

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  16. You and my daughter must be related somehow.

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  17. I normally set the alarm a few minutes ahead, knowing that I will hit the snooze button once or twice. On those rare occasions when getting up was essential, I set a second alarm for slightly later, but across the room. That way, no matter if I hit the snooze on the first, I MUST get my arse outta bed to shut the second one off!

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  18. Yes Chris I think most people have their alarm out of reach when there is something they definately HAVE to be out of bed by a certain time for.

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  19. Its wierd.. but if there is something that I really need to be awake for early.. subconciously I just dont sleep well. I keep waking .. checking the time.. thats so frustrating cause it means what ever you need to be on the ball with.. and alert the next day suffers because the good night sleep preceding it .. never happened

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  20. This happens to me withoug fail if I have a long drive ahead of me.

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