Tyrant alarm clock dials your contacts if you refuse to wake
By Darren Murph 
posted July 2nd 2008 11:35AM
posted July 2nd 2008 11:35AM
We've seen alarm clocks institute some fairly unorthodox methods of waking users up, but this is exceptionally high on the list of "oh, no they didn'ts." Alice Wang's Tyrant, which we can only assume is a concept, actually dials a random number in one's mobile contact list for every three minutes that the sleeper doesn't address the obnoxiously loud ringing. In other words, unless you pick yourself up out of bed within ten minutes of the alarm going off, you'll have three angry friends wondering why they're getting phone calls from you everyday at O-five-hundred hours. Brilliant. Pure, sadistic, barbarous brilliance.[Via Coolest-Gadgets]
I have my University's Department of Public Safety number in my phone, and they're all deputized police, so...
Awesome idea, I love alarm clocks that really force you to get up. I liked the one that makes you put together a puzzle, sort of like the game Perfection. I also liked the one that makes you do math problems.
My only worry would be that my sleep-craving brain would just unplug the alarm, or turn it off instead of hitting snooze (as it is, I never use the snooze button).
Maybe someone should make an alarm that requires a key to turn it off. You could keep the key in the basement or something. You heard it here first.
It's all fun and games until this thing dials your professional contacts
All the more incentive.
Today's Headlines: Terrorists use alarm clock to call a cell phone to blow up a building downtown."
This wouldnt be such a bad idea if you could program who it was going to call...say for instance you're on a buisness trip, you and your co workers go out drinking all night and have an important meeting in the morning. It could call them wake them up and then they could come wake you up. Brilliant.
Does it leave voice mails?
I can't wait to buy this, set it up, then go on holiday for a week, forgetting to turn it off...
don't forget to turn it off if ou leave for a vacation
How does it get to your mobile list?
I still can't believe there's an alarm clock called "The Tyrant"
If one of my friends seriously buys this contraption, and it does call me, he will find it melted with a torch over this head the following day...
Do you really need someone waking you up at that hour because THEY forgot to wake up? Genious...really. O.o
I'd just turn it off/unplug it and go to sleep again. I currently set three alarms, one across the room, and two on my phone, and I can still turn all three off, get back in bed for "5 minutes" and sleep for hours. It is a struggle for my life every time I have to wake up before 9 a.m. and it has been since I was 5, so that's 20 consecutive years.
what we need are beds that suddenly become lumpy and uncomfortable - perhaps even tossing and turning - when it's time to wake up. it would be impossible to remain sleeping.
also, having an alarm that raises your blinds would allow natural light to come in, causing your brain to stop producing melatonin and thus you to not be sleepy anymore =D
I have 2 alarms. 1 on my phone, 1 across the room, forcing me to get up and turn it off. Problem is, there's no incentive for me not to go back to bed after turning the alarms off. Probably be the same thing in this case: I'd get up, turn it off, go back to bed and be late for work :(
Next april fool's gift for someone, just take your supposed "friend's" cell phone, program it in and do not tell them what it does
Now that's the kind of thing that might finally get me to beat the "Snooze" habit. Ah, who am I kidding... at that time of the morning, I don't care what any of my friends think of me.
No, you dont really need it, However... co-workers who get phoned will make sure you remember to pick up once they beat you at work...
This is a brilliant idea... minus the phone bill and or if you take it over-sea's with the same numbers... Expensive phone bill anyone? That should wake you up all right... The thought of that bill could keep anyone from sleeping!
And I used to think this was the most evil alarm clock ever made ...
http://www.geek.com/review-clocky-mobile-alarm-clock/
On a serious note: My daughter has a severe form of drug resistant epilepsy. I've accepted the fact that if she has a bad seizure in her sleep we could lose her. While she is just a child now, if she ever is able to live on her own, I would want that call, the morning she doesn't wake up, SUDEP.
After working in the emergency medical industry, this actually has a lot of potential. Far to often will we show up and find someone who has been dead for 8-16 hours before they were found because they live alone.
Hehe :) Many of internet addicts would need this. Great thing.
Where can I get on ;)
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If there was a button "buy", I swear I would get one!