Cuckoo clock loudspeaker kicks out the jams, you out of bed
By Darren Murph 
posted Dec 9th 2008 8:43AM
posted Dec 9th 2008 8:43AM
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Is this meant for waking up giants?
no this is meant to wake up an entire neighborhood
and if you happen to be in front of it when it goes off, you get a face full of woofer!
"no this is meant to wake up an entire neighborhood"
...of giants
That's the best!
Wake everyone in you neighbour hood at the same time.
Meh, it takes quite a lot from an alarm clock to annoy me. As it currently is, I have an alarm clock on full blast, placed on the other side of the room; so that every morning I have to lunge out of bed to turn it off, no time for slow wake-ups. This would only be a tad more annoying.
I can only imagine this ingenious design scaring the crap out of the elderly.
I'm so ashamed of myself for laughing at that image. That's really horrible. Yet amusing.
I believe it was Arthur C. Clarke who said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and will scare the elderly."
It is also the hallmark of good design.
Some engadget reviewed novelty products make me smile or laugh. Others I'll spend a night with and forget about within a week. This is the first I could see myself spending the rest of my life with. Cuckoo clock loudspeaker, will you marry me?
that looks like would be a shortlived cuckoo clock. Ill throw something at it in the morning and probably will fall over
Sad thing is, the sound level of the woofer would drop by 75% once you remove it from the cabinet. It would be a heck of alot louder if the woofer stayed put. Other than that, clever.
If you live in an apartment, you can definitely wake a lot of people up with this.. but you can also loose your apartment really fast..
Finally something that could wake me up.
Check out the Atomic Alarm clock from thinkgeek - it has a piercing alarm, bright LEDs on the front, and a vibrator (omfg u said vibrator lol) attachment that you can tuck under your pillow at night.
"under your pillow..."
*Ahem* uh-huh, suuure. ;)
This is awesome.
RTFA
It has nothing to do with waking people up. All the guy did was put the accordion-mechanism on the woofer. It extends out of the cabinet when the bass is "loud" and back into the cabinet when the bass is "quiet". ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
This is so legit. Anyone giving this as a gift would be obligated to set up the speaker's in the intended person's room to wake them up.
Finally, I may have an alarm clock that can wake me up... or this cuckoo clock goes off every hour?
kb8urr is right, there would be very little sound heard once the driver leaves the box. the reason the box, on the very first order basic simple level, is to separate the sound waves from the front of the driver from those coming from the back of the driver. Since the driver moves back and forth, the front and back waves are 180 degrees out of phase, or, in simple terms, the reverse of each other. If the front and back waves are not kept separate, then they just cancel each other out and very little can be heard. So the mechanism that moves the speaker out when and loud and in when quiet will basically mean that the speaker does nothing in terms of sound.