Just been reading about a new alarm clock called Clocky,developed by some students at MIT, the American Engineering University. Basically when the time comes, it shrieks, jumps off your night stand and starts running around the room making R2D2 noises.
The idea is that you have to get up to turn it off. On the positive side of things, it will make you get up and move around a bit so you’ll be awake. On the negative side, it may put you in a very bad mood. I heard that someone was designing something similar that would fly above your bed until you swat it down. Waking up to a giant electronic insect isn’t my idea of waking up right.
A small two wheeled robot running around the floor sounds only marginally better, but I suppose if it gets you out of bed on time, it might be well worth any annoyance. Missing important meetings is probably going to put you in a worse mood than a run around your bedroom first thing in the morning. Only in America!!
I'd take a baseball bat to bed, and first time the thing started running around my boudoir, I'd bat the thing through the window.
Talking of getting up, I've had a terrible morning. I put my shirt on, a button fell off. Fastened my shoes, a lace broke! Picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off. I haven't dared go toilet!!!
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