Finger Dance Alarm Clock: it's like DDR, in an alarm clock

If the world required that you complete an expert DDR jam each morning only moments after you awoke, there's a solid chance the global death toll would far outpace the birth rate. Thankfully, all that's typically necessary is that you actually listen to whatever device you've got ringing. If you've noticed lately that said noises just aren't cutting it, here's a little puzzler that's pretty much guaranteed to either get you up or entangle you in infinite frustration. The £9.99 ($16) Finger Dance Alarm Clock sounds at a user-determined time, and once your weary eyes begin to focus, you then have to use your digits to follow a lighted dance pattern in order to shut the cacophony off. It's half torture, half genius -- precisely the way we like it.

[Via OhGizmo]

[Hendrik @ Jul 4th 2009 8:14AM]

must...buy...

[Barney @ Jul 4th 2009 8:18AM]

for...my own sake...

[Alasdair @ Jul 4th 2009 1:38PM]

Is that like DDR-266 or DDR-333 in my alarm clock? Because each would have a different clock speed and hence I'll either be getting up very late or very early...

[Phoenix @ Jul 4th 2009 2:14PM]

I would throw that thing across the room. To hell with figuring out the pattern.

[Gaz @ Jul 4th 2009 8:15AM]

Alternatively if you have a windows mobile phone then just use this smart little app:

http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=galarm/about

"Are you a deep sleeper? Not with G-Alarm anymore

G-Alarm can optionally ask you some tasks to complicate closing or snoozing of an alarm. It can ask you a small calculation task or wants you to guide a ball through a maze."

Gets me up :)

[Andrew @ Jul 4th 2009 8:49AM]

the time that it goes off is USER DETERMINED time? thank god, ive been hating my alarm clocks factory setting...

[NoAndThen @ Jul 4th 2009 8:59AM]

Lmfao!

If this ended up in my room it would quickly go from finger dance to foot stomp. Like, immediately.

[AdamR @ Jul 4th 2009 10:37AM]

HAHA I know, right? What a pain that factory setting is!

As for this little hellion, I'd probably wind up fist smashing it after day 1.

[Kadir @ Jul 4th 2009 9:00AM]

pretty awesome!

[GingerFox @ Jul 4th 2009 9:14AM]

This would be out of the window so fast...

[graywolf790 @ Jul 4th 2009 10:00AM]

along with the e-bongo t-shirt after i iron it and ruin it

[graywolf790 @ Jul 4th 2009 10:02AM]

desperately...crave...necessity...*ack*

*falls on floor*

*stops breathing*

*paramedics arrive*

*resuscitation*

need...so bad...

[videoCWK @ Jul 4th 2009 10:18AM]

Well I passed Energizer Expert for the first time last night (ITG song)

Bring

it

on.

[sfxazure @ Jul 4th 2009 12:56PM]

Too bad the alarm clock makes you play PANDY.

Oh wait...

[AceJay @ Jul 5th 2009 1:21AM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_gSq6QFCKM

[Tom Reinke @ Jul 4th 2009 11:13AM]

I dunno.. I think I'll stick with my Clocky. :)

http://elsewares.com/commerce/Clocky_MPD915.html

[Badomens @ Jul 4th 2009 11:23AM]

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[NoAndThen @ Jul 4th 2009 2:09PM]

"Well, Michael, I suppose we all give away our inner desires one way or another."

"I think you just did."

[Spiritsnare @ Jul 4th 2009 11:49AM]

I'll wait for IIDX and/or pop'n, thanks.

[Garst @ Jul 4th 2009 1:53PM]

Something I've learned about myself is complex alarm clocks that take more than a button press to turn off get smashed.

[loocas @ Jul 4th 2009 4:38PM]

"If you've noticed lately that said noises just aren't cutting it..."

Then even this thing won't cut it, as logic dictates...