As if all the screaming kids at every store with some sort of retail product this holiday season weren’t enough, Clocky the rolling alarm clock (wasn’t that the name of a Capt. Beefheart album?) gives you one chance… ONE CHANCE… to get out of bed. Fail, and it literally zips across the room to some Cheney-esque undisclosed location and squeals until you get up and find it. Our advice: Use your cell phone alarm most days and save this one for A.M. of the big job interview. This thing is seriously aneurysm-inducing.
[Via Sci-Fi Tech ]
This clock would have a VERY short lifespan with me… if it pulled this antic off on me, it would get a nice visit from Mr. Hammer and that would be the end of it. If you need a device like this to wake you up in the morning… making sure you are pissed off to welcome a new day… then it’s time to go to bed a little earlier at night ;-)
Jon
ps: No wonder we got such road rage issues…
with my new isothremic sleep inducing pillow, i’ll need at least three.
I’m going to need one of these when I go back to college – when I had originally went, I managed to sleep through any sort of alarm clock I used, managing to get up on time by sleeping in weird positions. Of course, it also serves as incentive to clean my room a bit more often…
Actually Isaiah, if you had a dirty room, your guaranteed your alarm clock wouldn’t get too far out of “snooze button” range… they have one fundamental design flaw with this clock… no ATV tires!
Probably acts no different then the Mars rovers… if there is a something in the way… it just sit there :-)
As long as the engineers haven’t been too bored and integrated a Type 89 Grenade Discharger in the back with speaker saying:
“You now have 5… 4… 3… 2… 1″ (hatch in the back opens up)
“0… this is your last warning” (ejection of 2lbs of C-4 munitions 5 ft in the air)
KABOOM
You are now awake along with everybody a mile around… and your room gets blasted clean as a bonus!
Jon
This might actually become a necessity for me. I have three alarm clocks now and I’ve also set my computer to play an annoying playlist if the first three lines of defense don’t work. If I can trash all the clocks I have laying around for something that wants to play hide and seek with me in the morning, I’d be happy camper.
Jon – you have a point. Except with my long arms, I run the risk of actually reaching it before it tries to go “off-road” out of my reach. XD Of course, putting it too far isn’t going to work – I have a notorious habit of getting up and walking over (and by over, I mean on top of) anything in my path, be it PS2 controllers, pants (with keys inside) or people. :o
My problem – I can sleep through anything. I’d just learn to ignore the blaring noise. My current alarm clock methodology is my laptop with about 4 different songs from my library that I choose the night before. One start playing every 10 minutes, starting about an hour before I actually want to get out of bed.
That almost works. :)
tell ya what, it would get me out of bed fast enough so i wouldn’t be late for school, and a fun joke to put in my mother’s room.
Oh lord. The first time this thing went off, that’d be it. Game over for clocky the annoying alarm clock.
And I thought my current one was bad… mine’s so loud and tough that I literally need to crawl out of bed and smash it on the walls and floors to get the batteries to pop out.