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Ideas for the alarm clock
The alarm clock...the invention we love to hate! Any ideas for improving the alarm clock?
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Brainstorm Info
| Creator: | UKJohn |
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| Created: | about 1 year ago |
| Activity: | about 1 year ago |
| Users: | 8 |
| Ideas: | 15 |
Top Brainstormers
| Username | Ideas |
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| sewald | 4 |
| UKJohn | 3 |
| anandvc | 2 |
| aurora5772 | 2 |
| freespirit | 1 |
| Oneiroi | 1 |
| mure04 | 1 |
| pmichaelsilver | 1 |
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An eye mask w/ motion-detectors, sensitive enough to REM flutters but lightweight. One could input a window of wakefulness based on one's personal basal REM period. At the earliest time w/i that window of time, a standard alarm (or customized sound) wakes one while in a sleep rhythm conducive to awakening.
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Customisable, downloadable ring - like ringtones, some free, some pay for, link to website to download, store on sd or similar in clock. Could make site user-interactive, competitions for best new ringtone, etc.
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Different ring for each day of the week - church bells on Sunday for instance, "Hooray" on Friday "I don't like Mondays" by Boomtown rats on monday
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Under the sheets with a vibrating layer.
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1.having a water sprayer on top which sprays on a given time
2. apart from alarm it can also vibrate cause i use my mobile phone for alarm & really hate it when it vibrates in morning.
3.how about having messages recorded which will be the alarm for morning
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Downloads a customized wake-up message (but unknown to the user) from various subscriber sites--inspirational, comedy, news, weather, ideas
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uses a medley going from chilled to increasingly hyper music; ends with a Weird Al Yankovic polka medley.
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shakes the bed when it's time to get up
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records a message to yourself the night before; uses that message to wake you up
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I hope that in the future alarm clocks will speak to the person they are trying to wake up by speaking to them. "Good morning Mr. Andersson. It's a nice day out there. Just get up and enjoy the day! ... *music* ... Good morning Mr. Andersson, krhm. Sorry to distrube you but just get up and enjoy your life."
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It's never happened to me, but I would imagine it's possible for a battery-powered clock's battery to run out during the night. How about an alarm clock that makes a quiet beep when the battery's running low? Or maybe the alarm sound could be a different sound to alert you when the battery's low.
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Release laughing gas when the alarm rings so you start laughing and wake up happy.
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Release caffeine fumes when the alarm rings so as to help you wake up and want your morning coffee.
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Here's a problem: you are half awake at some time in the morning and wonder what the time is. You know if you look to your clock you will wake up even more and will have trouble getting back to sleep. However, you can't drop off properly again because you think the alarm clock may go off at any moment! How about an alarm clock that makes a quiet beep on each of the hours before dawn - say, 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock?
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An existing idea: the alarm clock that cares. The idea is that it wakes you when you are not in REM sleep, thus you fell less tired. http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/2005/03/30/the_alarm_clock_that_cares/