Tag: alarm-clock
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Click Clock
By Andrew Liszewski I can’t say the Click Clock, designed by Paul Koh, does anything particularly revolutionary when it comes to alarm clocks. It’s got your basic 12/24 hour setting, a backlight, snooze function and a lock on top preventing you from accidentally making changes when you’re fumbling around in the morning. But what it…
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Habitat OKKO Alarm Clock With Animated Bird
By Andrew Liszewski Waking up to a rooster’s crow in the morning is a bit too stereotypical for my tastes, but the tweeting of a small bird is the perfect alternative to morning show radio banter. This LED alarm clock from habitat features an electronic bird perched on top that not only moves, but also…
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The Infallibly Polite Speaking Alarm Clock Featuring Reginald Jeeves (aka Stephen Fry)
By Andrew Liszewski Nothing is more jarring in the morning than that terrible buzzing sound emitted by the cheapest of cheap alarm clocks. So even though this Infallibly Polite Speaking Alarm Clock from Hammacher Schlemmer comes with a steep $99.95 price tag, it’s totally worth the cost since it plays one of 126 different wake-up…
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“Magic” Sensor LCD Alarm Clock
By Andrew Liszewski Tired of fumbling with the buttons on your alarm clock every morning? Well as you can see in the product shots, this alarm doesn’t actually have any buttons, and instead relies on a motion sensor for controlling its various functions. By simply waving your hand above the clock you can do everything…
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Scrolling Message LED Alarm Clock
By Andrew Liszewski Here’s an alarm clock for those who can’t wake up without some sort of successory-like inspirational message. The LED Light Marquee Messager (I guess that’s a real word now) uses a grid of 56 red LEDs to display the time, plus one of 4 personalized messages (up to 28 characters in length)…
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Alarm Clock Hack Puts Your Alarm Under Lock And Key
By Andrew Liszewski There’s no shortage of novelty alarm clocks designed to force you out of bed in the morning, but I suspect if you were to build one yourself, you’d be less inclined to smash it to pieces when it’s time to wake up. So head on over to Instructables where you’ll find a…
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The Stig Helmet Projection Alarm Clock – Kinda Creepy
By Andrew Liszewski This one’s for all the Top Gear fans out there. Just because the show might feature some of the most advanced and expensive sports cars on the planet apparently doesn’t mean the BBC is above licensing it out to crappy tie-in merchandise like this Stig Helmet Projection Alarm Clock. Now making a…
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The Simpsons Moe’s Tavern Talking Alarm Clock
By Andrew Liszewski Given that I usually fall asleep every night with some random episode of The Simpsons playng on the telly, it seems only fitting that I should wake up to The Simpsons as well. But convincing Dan Castellaneta to come and quote Homer and Barney lines to me every morning hasn’t been easy,…
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Memory Game (aka Simon) Alarm Clock
By Andrew Liszewski While not officially billed under the Simon brand name, the 4 blue, red, green and yellow buttons on this Memory Game Alarm Clock don’t leave much to the imagination when it comes to what it’s trying to emulate. When the alarm sounds in the morning, you’ll need to correctly remember and reproduce…
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Time Tuner Alarm Clock Looks Like An Analog Radio
By Andrew Liszewski It’s just over 13 hours into the new year where I’m at, and it seems as good a time as any to post our first ‘form over function’ alarm clock for 2009. The Time Tuner was created by Istanbul-based Antrepo Design Industry, and instead of using a traditional easy-to-read digital clock face,…
