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04-09-2005, 12:19 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) - A 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.
linky (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=19&u=/nm/odd_alarmclock_dc)
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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.
linky (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=19&u=/nm/odd_alarmclock_dc)
Picture:
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20050407/i/r2961008461.jpg