Accelerometers let you abuse your alarm clock

Sure, it's all well and good to simply smack the "snooze" button on your alarm clock when you want to get a few more Zs, but isn't there a better, more exciting way to make yourself late to work? You bet your sweet you-know-what there is... accelerometers! One clever Make-er / modder hacked his alarm clock so that you can punch, slap, or flick the entire clock to get the alarm to stop blaring its ear-destroying wake-up call... at least for about nine minutes. Feel like burning through a weekend and putting together a clock which will make you the envy of all your friends? Motor over to the how-to and get the info. Want to see the clock in action? Check the video after the break.

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[DickHardknocks @ Aug 28th 2007 11:13AM]

My key to waking up is psychological.
Firstly, I am a teacher and I must be to work by 8:10 AM regardless the partying the night before.

I normally have to rise at 7 to get to work on time.

The smart thing to do is not to rise at 7, instead I set the clock for 6:50. If I really am so lazy that morning I can't get up right away, I hit snooze and sleep 10 more minutes - but I'll still get up on time.

I am ALWAYS on time and NEVER Late.

My parents used a similar trick...they set the clocks in their cars 5 or 10 minutes fast to make them rush to work - always getting there well before punch in time.

[Jonathan Keim @ Aug 28th 2007 11:27AM]

A lot of people use the two methods you mentioned...

[KRIS @ Aug 28th 2007 11:56AM]

Now just program it to correlate force to time. So the harder you hit it the more time you can sleep. Tap=5min snooze, Punch/Slap=15 min snooze, Piledriver=30 min snooze, and if you throw it hard enough the alarm will never go off. (My alarm clock already has that last one!)

[Zach @ Aug 28th 2007 11:32AM]

Weird. My clock can already do that, sometimes without me even touching it... and I didn't even have to open her up!

My trick is similar. All my clocks are set 10 minutes too fast. My cars clock is set fifteen minutes. The problem is that I know it, so I always calculate that I have ten more minutes then it says I do.

[Liqwid @ Aug 28th 2007 11:56AM]

I use Alarm Clock 2 for my iMac. It wakes me up every morning at 6:10am to some heavy hitting death metal, and I am never late for work. (I am a very heavy sleeper and very hard to wake.)

[John @ Aug 28th 2007 1:56PM]

I'm holding out for a chumby (http://chumby.com)

[RonCastry @ Aug 28th 2007 8:01PM]

My problem with alarm clocks is that snoozing them becomes so routine that I can do it without actually waking up. Wouldn't it be so cool if you had to hit the "accelalarm clock" in a different way each time before the snooze function would kick in?

Hmmm... what about a clock that requires three different shocks before snoozing... maybe that would work on ME!

[Ayle @ Aug 29th 2007 12:18AM]

The joy of the reflex snooze.... made my fail a class...