Some of us
were not born with the talent of waking up on time in the morning. Even with
the help of an alarm clock, we somehow manage to ignore its calling. It’s easy
to do this especially if you’re a heavy sleeper like myself. The snooze button
has been a very understanding friend of mine all these years but it has
pampered me too much. For all heavy sleepers around the world, we need
hard-love.
These are
some of the alarm clocks that are made not only to wake you up but to annoy you
by doing so.
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NANDA Clocky
Alarm Clock
Imagine
chasing a smaller and much faster version of R2D2 around your room in the
morning. That is exactly what it is like if you have Clocky on your nightstand.
Clocky is an
alarm that will prevent you from snoozing. It is built with wheels to force you
to chase it around to turn it off. If Clocky is placed on a nightstand, it will
fall off and roll around the floor. Yes, it is very durable, which means it can
go down the stairs as well. It produces robotic beeps in random patterns as it
rolls around.
However, its wheels feature can be turned off if one
prefers the more traditional alarm clock but this is not recommended because
that is what makes you get out of bed.
You can
Clocky get for RM119.00 here.
Gun O Clock
Shooting Alarm Clock
One of the
pleasures that most of us cannot get is the satisfaction of shooting a ringing
alarm clock with a handgun. Gun O’Clock offers the next best thing.
The Gun
O’Clock has a bullseye target that you must shoot with the toy gun provided
(Real guns are not recommended) in order to turn it off. Its beeping sound will
not cease until you pull off a perfect shot to the bullseye.
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It’s a fun
game to play but aiming a gun to shoot a perfect shot first thing in the
morning is not exactly an amusing activity but it sure will “start your day
with a bang.”
Shape Up
Dumbbell Alarm Clock
Previous
alarm clocks that we’ve shown in this article are arguably fun but the Shape Up
Dumbbell Alarm Clock is anything but. It forces you to workout as soon as you
wake up.
When the
Dumbbell Alarm Clock beeps, you have to lift it 30 times in order to turn it
off. It only works when you lift it upwards and there is an LCD screen on its
side to show you how many times it must be lifted before it stops beeping. Hold
on, it gets worse…
While you
lift it, it will continuously beep and only stop when you’ve done 30 lifts.
Yes, it’s the most malicious among the alarm clocks league. The experience is
almost similar to being yelled at by your gym instructor.
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Working out
in the morning will keep you energetic and motivated throughout the day. But do
you really want to exercise right after you wake up? In all fairness, this
product serves its purpose well as a dumbbell and, more importantly, an alarm
clock.
The price
ranges from RM35.00-RM40.00 and you can get them here.
PuZZed
PuZZed is an
alarm application for Blackberry that will make your love for your phone
dwindle.
Imagine waking
up to a math question. That’s what puZZed will do. It will give you five math
questions that you have to solve to turn the alarm off. The math questions,
however, are not as easy as “2 + 2 = ?” but much more difficult ones like “354
– 287 = ?” You have to answer 5 equations like this.
Moreover,
they give you different questions everyday, so memorizing the answers would be
futile. For those who hate mathematics, this application will wake you up to a
nightmare.
PuZZed also provides
another option besides math questions which is re-typing quotes. A quote will
be displayed on screen and you must re-type it with absolute accuracy. If a
letter or a punctuation mark is not at its right place, you will not be able to
disable the alarm.
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You can
choose sounds or songs from your phone as the alarm. Choosing your favorite
song would be a bad decision. It will make you hate it. I myself use Slipknot’s
Psychosocial.
You can
download PuZZed for free from Blackberry Appworld.
Flying Alarm
Clock
Do not get
excited by its name. This is not an alarm clock that magically floats in the
air (Not a bad idea, actually).
The Flying
Alarm Clock looks like the helicopter hat in Doraemon (‘ta-ke copta’ or ‘bamboo
copter’). There is a key attached to the base that will fly up by an attached
propeller when the alarm goes off. The alarm can only be disabled when the key
is retrieved and reinserted into its base.
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This alarm clock requires less chasing than Clocky, but imagine living in a tall building and the
propeller-driven key flies out your bedroom window.
You can get
the Flying Alarm Clock for RM99.00 here.
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