The BANCLOCK: if the IRS made alarm clocks

Meet the BANCLOCK alarm clock. Not to be confused with the bang clock, this alarm clock features a display like a national debt ticker and alarm which can only be turned off by feeding the damn thing some coin. No option to snooze here brother. Of course, there's nothing to prevent you from feeding it slugs you cheap azz, but you're only cheating your kids of their education. Available in Japan for ¥5,985 or $51 bucks which is itself, a crime.

[Via Akihabara News]

[Wonderboy @ Mar 9th 2007 10:18AM]

It should really give you the option to snooze based on how much you put in... 5 cents, you get 2 minutes, 10 cents you get 5, 25 cents you get 10... and you have to put in a silver dollar to get it to shut off for the day.

[Ashish Chavda @ Mar 9th 2007 10:59AM]

Loose change on a glass table!? No dessert for a week and if you do it again you sleep outside, young man! ::shudder::

[PDubNYC @ Mar 9th 2007 12:42PM]

wow, your mom must have been terrifying. Never heard of someone getting yelled at for change on a glass table before.

And this clock's got nothing on my 25 year old Dream Machine cube.

[Mitch @ Mar 9th 2007 12:54PM]

Or the alternative of unplugging it...

[Shadyman @ Mar 9th 2007 3:48PM]

Maybe it has backup li-ion batteries

[Samo @ Mar 9th 2007 3:57PM]

Wicked way to save money, I'll say... If you can set the minimum it'll except to shut up.

...But will it blend?????

[Major Malfunction @ Mar 9th 2007 4:33PM]

What happens when you fill it up? Do you have to send it back to the manufacturer? I did not RTFA. Love the idea though, attach this to the smoke machine car alarm which I also want, just to really piss off the in-laws when they visit.