And I want it.
For all of us who’ve been late or missed something because of the snooze button a master’s student at MIT has created a device to save us all.
An alarm clock that hides from the user.
That’s right - you hit the snooze button on this little darling, and it jumps off your bedside table, races around your floor and finds a place to hide for when it turns back on in nine minutes. :eek:
Link here
And, alas, not likely to be ready for Xmas. sigh
My cat would either run in fright, or go into a beserker frenzy and try to kill it. I wonder if the cat would win, or the alarm clock? 
It’s something I’d get for my sibling, but not for myself. I just put the alarm clock clear across the room, so I have to clamber out of bed in the first place, and I get LOUD ones.
Another link, for those who want to see a picture of this monster…
That’s all I need first thing in the morning – a big hairy rat crawling across my floor.
Considering how cranky I am when I am woken by alarm, and how bleary I am, there’s no way in hell that clock would survive it’s first night in this house. I’d be so pissed off by the time I found that thing it’d hit the wall.
In looking at the picture, I tend to agree with Zabali. I mean, the thing even looks like it’s covered in the same stuff that you would put on a scratching post.
Susan
Why didn’t grad students where I went to grad school look like that?
Brilliant idea. I know all sorts of people who’d could use one. I personally don’t need it, though.
Great alarm clock… if I didn’t know for a fact that I’d stamp on the thing and throw it through a wall if it took more than 2 microseconds to find.
I need this but my wife and kids would be traumatized waking up at 0600 hrs to me running nekkid through the house yelling “DIE YOU STUPID CLOCK!! DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!”
No. I’m not a morning person. Why do you ask?
I solved the snooze problem years ago by putting my clock across the room, never on my nightstand/table. I can’t say I’d want something that’s also going to roll around my floor and all over the place.
Ha! Nothing new here. Same old same old. I and I alone have the idea for the perfect “deep sleeper” alarm clock. Only the fact that I am penniless keeps me from making and marketing it.
But if I reveal it here, some goober will patent it first! Curse you, you lot of intellectual property thieves!
Yet more fun from the MIT Media Lab (Sometimes I do wish my wife had been accepted to that program. Oh well.)
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I heard about this on NPR last night. I rarely use an alarm. My boss is flexible enough that if I come in late, I just work late, so if I feel I need extra sleep, I just sleep. Usually I’m up in plenty of time (although DLST is evil.) However, if I did use one, it wouldn’t be this nasty piece of work.
If you combined that with the hand-me-down alarm clock my brother got from my dad, you would have the Devil!
I give you the James Remind-o-Timer. This thing has a buzz that will give you a heart attack. There is no snooze button, you have to find the pin. Here is a clip of the alarm sound though it doesn’t really do it justice.
Who needs a clock when there is a dog iwth a cold wet nose with pressing pissing needs at 5am?
Not just any grad school – MIT. Home to some of the most attractive women I’ve ever seen. I think most of them are built in a lab by some very lonely geeks.
When I first saw the article, I didn’t see the picture. My eyes wouldn’t focus on what looks to me like a giant turd on wheels. A GIANT TURD!! :eek:
Alas, not all of us live where we can keep dogs with a sufficiently cold nose. 
Cool invention, but why is this in The Pit?
Because it’s EEEVIL, I tell you! EEEVIL!
Really, it’s because I like a few semi-humorous Pit posts now and then. Besides, it really is EEEVIL.