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April 08, 2005

The Worst Good-Sounding Idea I Ever Heard

Cute idea that will lead to countless tragedies:

25-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology student has invented a revolutionary alarm clock that makes sleepyheads find it to quiet it.

Designed to overcome abuse of the snooze feature on most alarm clocks, Gauri Nanda's "Clocky" falls to the floor and rolls away on the first push of the snooze button.

To turn it off, a person must get out of bed and find it.

The clock features two rubber wheels and is covered in thick, 1970s-style shag carpet and other material to cushion it when it tumbles to the floor.

A built-in computer chip randomly decides how far the clock will roll, so it stops in a different place each morning.

You can own a gun or you can own Clocky, but I beseech you not to own both.

Thanks to LauraW.


posted by Ace at 10:44 AM
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Or, they could just take off the snooze button ...

Posted by: George at Snapshot on April 8, 2005 10:47 AM

This is why I keep my alarm clock as far away from my bed as possible.

Preferrably in the toilet tank.

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on April 8, 2005 10:55 AM

Another solution would be developing a trendy meth habit, taking away the need for sleep altogether.

Plus the need to get up in the morning, as holding down a job will become an untenable luxury.


It's all about cutting out the middleman.

Posted by: Russell Wardlow on April 8, 2005 11:15 AM

There's always time for target practice.

Posted by: apotheosis on April 8, 2005 11:25 AM

Maybe if Gauri spent less time tinkering with alarm clocks and more time working on his social skills, he could just maybe find a girlfriend who would be able to hit the snooze button for him. But that kind of radical, out of the box thinking is generally frowned upon at MIT.

Posted by: WindyCity on April 8, 2005 12:51 PM

Looks like they ran out of clever ideas right about the time when they actually had to give Clocky a name.

Posted by: utron on April 8, 2005 02:15 PM
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