Hide-And-Seek Alarm Rousts Sleepyheads from Bed

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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.

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[miajag81]

This should be marketed as "Fuzzy Electronic Mommy For Lazy Sacks With No Willpower."

[Ogre]

I gotta get it

[IsaacW]

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Technic rules!

Also, MIT is teh s uck if this is what 25 year-old students are working on...

[istewart]

Lets's generalize a bit more.

[IsaacW]

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Lets's generalize a bit more.

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OK...

Animals suck.
Fruits are good.
istewart doesn't get jokes.

+HARHAR

[DBowling]

WTF sort of invention is this? I place my alarm clock on the opposite side of the room and get the same effect.
that way it doesnt look like i have a domokun rolling around my room

[Lazymeatball]

if i ever had a roommate who had this i would kill him in his sleep.