World's Biggest Alarm Clock Shakes You Out of Bed 100
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tugfoigel writes "Built by "Kevin" for a contest, this computer-controlled alarm clock is touted as the world's largest. To be more specific, he 'mounted a large air cylinder to the head of [his] bed and a valve, controlled by a computer, which [he programmed] to wake [him] up in the morning.'"
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That's not a kid. He's in his late 20's or maybe even 30's.
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There is no way he's getting laid twice.
A thought on waking up... (Score:5, Funny)
1. The sun gently rolling its warmth over the mountains, gently caressing your face and rousing your subtly to start your day.
2. A tiger jumping out of the bushes.
I wonder which one this is?
Re:A thought on waking up... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A thought on waking up... (Score:4, Funny)
What does waking up have to do with that?
Believe you me, I don't get laid twice either.
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There is a third way: having to go piss.
I'm over forty. That is the first and only way for me you insensitive clod!
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3. Penis, gently roused and massaged by mouth, perhaps followed later by vagina.
[Disclaimer: I've been married long enough that 3 doesn't happen anymore.]
Double loser (Score:2)
weird ass bed
LOL it's a twin sized bed
What girl will be over "sleeping"o in that thing with him. Wow, talk about excluding yourself from any chance of mating..
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There is no way he's getting laid twice.
Maybe not the way the system is set up now, but with some minor modifications and a little reprogramming ....
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Bzzzt Bang Crash (Score:3, Funny)
From the picture it looks like it is going to wake his head up into a dresser.
Upon watching the video I was half right.
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Shaking like that is a horrible way to be woken up. One of the many annoyances from so called "family home" was me being awoken by shaking the pillow unceremoniously.
Instant headache for the whole morning and horrible mood at the start of your day!
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Wouldn't help (Score:4, Funny)
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How did your sister growing up wake you up in the morning?
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The only things that ever remotely worked were my sister growing up
That's disturbingly weird.
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I live alone...
Who would've guessed?
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I live alone...
I would never have guessed.
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Just put the alarm clock out of easy reach. In a different room if needed. Across a moat.
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I use earplugs to sleep (best sleep ever!) and so I bought myself an alarm clock for deaf people with a vibration device that is put under the mattrass cover. It also has several really loud sounds and flashes that you can switch on as well if you like.
Best clock ever!
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re: "I use earplugs to sleep (best sleep ever!) and so I bought myself an alarm clock for deaf people with a vibration device that is put under the mattrass cover. It also has several really loud sounds and flashes that you can switch on as well if you like."
Could it be this one? [thinkgeek.com] It's the one I use too, for the same reason as the poster above: my eeevil subconscious would wake up first with a standard alarm clock and either turn it off or hit the snooze button repeatedly, so I would groggily wonder what hap
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my eeevil subconscious would wake up first with a standard alarm clock and either turn it off or hit the snooze button repeatedly
I'm curious whether your alarm clock was within reach, or across the room? I used a normal alarm clock in an adjacent room for a while, which fixed that problem completely for me, and now an alarm clock that's simply out of reach of my bed is enough.
"Onii-chan, wake up or you're going to be late!" (Score:2)
Oddly enough, I've heard you can get clocks in Japan with a little-sister voice telling her brother to wake up, or audio CDs of the same that you can use with CD player alarms.
But does it run Linux? (Score:1)
Sex used to be a form of exercise... But exercise is for losers! He built a machine to do the work for him!
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Buzz Buzz! (Score:1)
Ladies.... (Score:2)
can you imagine living with this guy?
I'd rather just not get up at all.
Waking up naturally is far better for your health. All you 9-5ers have fun being shocked out of bed every morning.
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[Ladies...] can you imagine living with this guy?
Yeah, I agree. Much better to sleep with me.
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Waking up naturally is far better for your health. All you 9-5ers have fun being shocked out of bed every morning.
Let me guess: Student or part-time worker, no kids?
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Nah, he's trying to keep optimistic during the downturn.
"Let's see... Ah! I get to sleep in!"
My bio-alarms (3 and 5 years old) wake me up by 6:30-7:00 should the alarm somehow fail, but that's unlikely. It auto-shuts on weekends, resets the time after a power failure, and stores the alarm time in non-volatile memory.
I am a light sleeper. Noises such as a door opening or a toilet flushing will wake me up and keep me up for a while. Even when exhausted, it takes 10-15 minutes to fall asleep.
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Why, in that case, do I revert to a 11-13 hour sleep schedule if I'm left to it?
I get plenty of sleep anyway, so it's not my body trying desperately to catch up, and even if I keep sleeping that much for a week I won't start naturally easing up to a 'normal' schedule unless I use some kind of alarm or other outside influence.
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In soviet russia (Score:4, Funny)
In soviet Russia, clock alarms YOU!
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I think it might be better thought of as...
In Soviet Russia, alarm clocks YOU!
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Nooo. In Soviet Russia YOU alarm the clock!
In soviet russia (Score:5, Funny)
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Sex (Score:1, Funny)
Sex just that much more interesting.
I saw this 25 years ago (Score:2, Funny)
My Wife's Comment (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My Wife's Comment (Score:4, Funny)
Yup. And he said, "Hi, Mom!".
There's no way he's passing on his genes.
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Darwinism at work. :)
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The problem is that he seems really smart, and *should* transmit his genes...
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Ah, yes. Mr. Darwin is still hard at work, de-evolving the human race.
See my sig for additional details.
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Smart?! The guy just lied on a bed that hits his head repeatedly until it hurts and he's done the same thing every morning for 4 years! :p
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He also said, "this is the way I have been waking up for the last 4 years."
Reminded me of the quote from Triumph, "you will die alone."
OMG he has the biggest rig! (Score:2, Funny)
He has a big [pneumatic] rig.
Remember it is the size of the cylinder that counts!
...Hang on...
Get your mind out of the gutter!
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From what I heard the diameter is more important than the length...
Missed His Mark (Score:5, Funny)
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Yes, that was invented by John Houghtaling [honoraryunsubscribe.com], who passed away last month at the age of 92.
The casue of death was a head injury after a fall.
Been done and 10x better years ago (Score:2, Troll)
Google is failing me now finding the video... but I remember reading about something SO much better almost 10 years ago.
A Japanese engineer designed an integrated alarm clock bed for a contest his company put on. The bed would go through a series of increasing "motivations" to wake up, including:
1. a normal alarm
2. a recording of his boss yelling "Wake up! You're going to be late!"
3. water spraying on his face
4. a hydraulic lift that slowly raises the head of the bed until the apparently ridiculously soun
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Here's [youtube.com] video for the #4 part of it! :)
Gun O'Clock (Score:2, Funny)
Well... (Score:2)
The great Exhibition, London, 1851 (Score:2, Interesting)
While using an atomic clock may be novel... (Score:2, Interesting)
Actually sort of impressive. (Score:1)
Ten Thousand Quatloos (Score:2)
It's been done. (Score:2)
This is nothing new. It's an alarmclock for deaf. (Score:2)
This sort of 'shaking bed' is nothing new. Simular mechanisims are used as alarmclocks by deaf people. Maybe the force with which the bed is shaken is a new quality, but the basic concept has been around for a decade or two at least.
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luckily (Score:1)
Luckily there's not much chance of him ever needing a double bed, because that would be a real pain in the ass to rewire.
Yeah ok but.. (Score:1)
Do the head aches last as long as proper ones induced by beer?
And if they do, what's the ROI considering you save on beer?
Hmmm - damaging (Score:2, Insightful)
Secondly, and more significantly, that kind of vigorous bashing about is not good for brain cells. 3 years of this, 5 days a week at least, can't have done him much good.
Ho hum - mildly clever to put it all together, but a dumb idea overall
Hope he's not from California... (Score:2)
Or for that matter any other earthquake-prone area of the world. The habituation to being shaken awake might prove to be his undoing.
Wallace and Grommit did it better (Score:3, Funny)
I seem to remember Wallace's bed not only (sort of) waking him but dressing him and plopping him down for breakfast (toast, jelly and CHEESE!). It worked most of the time. Of course they are just clay figurines so maybe this isn't a valid comparison.
this is why nerds don't get laid... (Score:1)
It's happening again (Score:1)
I need one. (Score:1)
For the kids. I won't have a problem getting them up again.
Nice contraption (Score:1)
Largest? I think not... (Score:2)
Back in the mid-70s, I built my fourth and final electronic clock (one for each year of high school)... this one was designed to match my stereo system. And it included a relay, to turn on the stereo system (well, actually a quadraphonic system.. this was the 70s, after all), so that I could wake to full volume rock music. That thing is only slightly larger than one of my speakers!
Biggest? (Score:1)
following in the footsteps of John Muir (Score:1)
Where is the compressor? (Score:1)
I'd complain that the compressor would make a lot of noise, but if this guy requires this to wake up, I'm guessing he could have the compressor in his room and he wouldn't notice. I'm guessing he's running hose down to a basement or garage air unit.
If I was designing this system, I probably would have mounted the cylinder rod to the floor with a alignment coupler
For a niche market only. (Score:1)
almost as bad... (Score:1)
Night Hawk Nerd? (Score:1)
The world's biggest alarm clock already exists. (Score:1)
I call it...the sun.
Interesting... (Score:1)
Nothing new-- Deaf people? (Score:1)