I can just imagine what my nutty Chocolate Lab would do with Clocky.
Posted on 03/26/2005 9:45:06 AM PST by srm913
Can't get up? Wake up and find the Clocky Ian Sample, science correspondent It looks annoying, like a furry swiss roll on wheels. Even its name is irritating: Clocky. But that's nothing compared with what it does. Clocky is surely the most infuriating wake-up call ever devised.
Dreamt up by a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it works like this: You hit the snooze button because you are desperate for a few more minutes' sleep. Clocky then rolls off the bedside table and wheels around the bedroom floor bumping into things, before settling on a place to hide.
"When the alarm clock sounds again, the sleeper must get out of bed and search for it," said Gauri Nanda, a research associate at MIT.
"This ensures that the person is fully awake before turning it off."
Ms Nanda hit upon the idea after struggling to rise in the mornings. "I've been known to hit the snooze bar for up to two hours or even accidentally turn it off. I've known people who put the alarm clock in the living room, but then forget to set it before going to sleep.
"Having the alarm clock hide from me was just the most obvious way I could think of to get out of bed."
Ms Nanda gave her clock a furry covering in the hope it would look endearing and stop people throwing it out of the window in anger.
A built-in microprocessor ensures that Clocky rolls off in a new direction and makes a series of different turns, so that its hiding place changes each morning. Because it uses simple technology, MIT says the clock, which has yet to go into production, would cost less than £15.
Ms Nanda has plans to make a second generation of more intelligent Clockies. If two people sharing a room needed to get up at different times, two Clockies could sound different alarms and even gang up on a serial oversleeper by sounding their alarms simultaneously.
Pretty cute idea isn't it Meek? I'd buy one just to see it work!!
LOL, good post!
hehe! Yeah, pretty cute. I don't use an alarm. I just get up early.I really got a kick outta this thing. People kickin' it around and
such, lol!:^)
LOL, that's an understatement if I ever heard one!!
LOL!That's funny. We are in shift change mode now, PL.
As usual, I'm loggin' out as you're loggin' in.
A ten HUT!!! :^D
:-)
I can just imagine what my nutty Chocolate Lab would do with Clocky.
Is it yours?
I almost got a little 12 week old Yellow pup last weekend - a lady in our Hunt Club brought the last two pups in her HRCh bitch's litter to the training session. My little Choc 4 yr old spay played with them very nicely -- they swarmed all over her, and she crouched down so that they could wrestle over her back, then rolled over and grinned all over her honest Lab face. She didn't even care when they tried to nurse!
I liked the smaller one - very sweet little boy with a very fine-boned face. I don't like great big Labs.
That's a beautiful dog!
She's a great little girl -- she is my first dog, and now I wouldn't have anything but a Lab. So friendly, so intelligent, so eager to please -- and so full of boundless energy. They can be a little overwhelming if you don't give them a job to do . . . but fortunately there are plenty of opportunities locally for Labs to do agility, flyball, hunting retriever, etc.
Mr. Clocky, meet Mr. Glocky.
That's what I get for not reading the whole thread.
Just put it down to "Great minds think alike"!
:-)
I do not know how I missed this yesterday.........what a hoot!!!!!!!!
Hi Gabz!
Isn't it, though?
Good Easter?
Easter dinner is currently in the oven - hubby didn't have to work all day and I think little one is taking a nap - the weather is crummy, but one can't have it all!!!!
You having a nice Easter?
Pretty quiet and that's just fine.
Husband is at work, but comes home early.
Garlic Chicken, mashed potatos, and a ton of other stuff then.
Weather had been sunny and bright this morning, but seems overcast and colder now.
I like quiet.
Hubby got home from work at noon - which is very early for him on a Sunday - but most of his Sunday work is retailers and most of them are closed today.
We had an Easter Egg hunt at the Moose Lodge yesterday and so I had my fill of of people and so it's just the 3 of us.
Sweet potatoes, honey glazed ham and asparagus.....no sense in more leftovers in the fridge!!!
...in these sad times...you gave me my first, genuine, LOL in days...thanks!!!
Tomorrow I am going to go out and see if i can get a goodd deal on some lamb...
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