# Website for buying a novelty/designer alarm clock? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-for-buying-a-novelty-designer-alarm-clock/477348 "2008-12-16T03:23:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-for-buying-a-novelty-designer-alarm-clock/477348/1 "2008-12-16T03:23:59Z")
I’m thinking of buying my wife a cool new alarm clock (she’s easy to please), but I have no idea where to find interestingly designed clocks. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![iwakura43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de0a6/32.png) [@iwakura43](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iwakura43)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-for-buying-a-novelty-designer-alarm-clock/477348/2 "2008-12-16T04:58:33Z")
> **[Original Zen Alarm Clocks | Digital Zen Alarm Clock | Timers for Yoga &...](https://now-zen.com/index.php)** > > Find Zen alarm clocks with gradually increasing chimes and gongs that ease you awake and gently remind you when yoga and meditation time is up. You'll even find a chime doorbell and phone ringer! ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-for-buying-a-novelty-designer-alarm-clock/477348/3 "2008-12-16T05:24:44Z")
[You could go weird](http://inventorspot.com/articles/11_alarm_clocks_wake_living_dead_3984). ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-for-buying-a-novelty-designer-alarm-clock/477348/4 "2008-12-16T05:30:13Z")
[http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13064](http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13064) Functional, yet annoying! ---
**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-for-buying-a-novelty-designer-alarm-clock/477348/5 "2008-12-16T05:36:38Z")
Thanks for the suggestions! Please, keep em coming. I’m really looking for one of two things: either a beautifully designed clock that you might find in…crap, I can’t think of one store…There was a store called Habitat in Paris that would have something like that, but I don’t think we have Habitat in the US. Anyway it would be something simple, but elegant. Otherwise, something cutesy-putesy. The clock she has right now is a Japanese alarm clock with a cat that plays the trumpet and yells in Japanese for you to wake up. Any of the real gadgety stuff she wouldn’t like (though, I would). Especially the helicopter one… ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-for-buying-a-novelty-designer-alarm-clock/477348/6 "2008-12-16T13:37:47Z")
[I like the Moonbeam clock](http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?categoryId=33149&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&from=SR&feat=sr) from L L Bean. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-for-buying-a-novelty-designer-alarm-clock/477348/7 "2008-12-16T13:41:02Z")
I really, really want one of Stephen Fry’s [Voco](http://www.voco.uk.com/) clocks. They will ship to the U.S., but I don’t know how long it takes. “Good morning, Madam. I’m so sorry to disturb you, but it appears to be morning.” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-for-buying-a-novelty-designer-alarm-clock/477348/8 "2008-12-16T13:50:21Z")
[http://www.clockstyle.com/](http://www.clockstyle.com/) has quite a collection. I just bought a clock for my Wife from them. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-for-buying-a-novelty-designer-alarm-clock/477348/9 "2008-12-17T05:04:10Z")
[http://www.fancifulgift.com/eshop/retro-flip-down-clock-antenna-base-p-179.html](http://www.fancifulgift.com/eshop/retro-flip-down-clock-antenna-base-p-179.html)