We all have those mornings, those painful mornings when prying yourself from your memory foam mattress seems worse than the consequence of sleeping in. Those mornings you cry out “just five more minutes” as if some higher power has the ability to grant you that privilege. Perhaps the especially drowsy among us should consider investing in a new bedmate – “Clocky”.
Clocky, an alarm clock produced by a company called Nanda, puts your standard alarm noises to shame. Designed for the heaviest of sleepers, this patented alarm clock physically jumps three feet from your night stand and rolls furiously around your bedroom floor beeping, dinging, and spinning in an effort to wake you up.
Let’s face it – you don’t have your mother around anymore to pound on the door every five minutes until you haul yourself out of bed, and the stark tone of a standard alarm clock has become the soundtrack to your dreams.
So the good folks at Nanda have ensured that Clocky will do the trick.
According to the Nanda website, the clock is intensely loud with no option of a decreased volume. It looks like a modern round-shaped alarm clock but with mini bike tires projecting from either side of the clock which allow the little robot to move. You can only “snooze” once, and you have to work for it. The snooze can only be pushed after you remove yourself from bed to catch the scampering device.
Here’s hoping you didn’t forget to move that before-bed glass of water (or red wine), or that your four year-old golden retriever doesn’t use Clocky as its new chew toy.
The jumping bean alarm clock was developed by Gauri Nanda while she was a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, according to the Nanda website. The site says the clock emerged from a prototype she created for a class project that evolved out of her own need for an alarm clock that wouldn’t let her snooze repeatedly.
Clocky runs for about $39 and can be purchased online, or you can get this little sleep disturber at the Urban Almanac General Store in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Submitted by Aly Thomson
