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Have you ever awakened from a nap, gone out, and returned 8 hours later to discover that you've forgotten to turn off your alarm clock and it's been beeping all day? Your poor neighbors!
Or maybe you wake up just before your morning alarm rings and head into the bathroom, and just as you're relaxing
on the toilet, the thing starts screeching? But you're engaged and can't get up to turn it off. so you're stuck listening to it.
An alarm clock control that, prior to ringing, senses whether you're in bed or not (by weight sensor, light beam, whatever), and only enables the alarm if you're there, would prevent these embarrassments.
(To avoid the one-in-a-million scenario where you wake up, don't realize what time it is, are in the bathroom during the moment for which the alarm is set, and then get back into bed and miss your wake-up, perhaps an "auto snooze" should be added, which detects that you're back in bed now and thus re-wakes you.)
Thank you.
Dead Man's Pause
Dead_20Man_27s_20Pause
Variation on a theme. [DrBob, Nov 13 2006]
Same.
_22I_27m_20in_20Ton...rm_20Clock_20Keyfob
Done and done? [Chefboyrbored, Nov 13 2006]
o.k. lets link to m_b's idea and put him out of his misery
Alarm_20Clock_20Pillow
[po, Nov 14 2006]
"...shrill, scratchy, warbling, pulsating siren.."
http://www.burningb...m/mystery/noise.htm
This is how it's all going to end. [rcarty, Nov 15 2006]
Somebody went and made one for you.
http://hackedgadget...ontime-alarm-clock/
they even gave credit to halfbakey.com! [bleh, Dec 08 2007]
[link]
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What about when you fall asleep on the couch? I've done that before. |
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You'll be wearing the Slap-Hat, surely? |
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No... not if I *want* to fall asleep and just happen to be too lazy to walk all the way to bed.... |
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Say, could the slap hat have an alarm clock setting? |
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Of course! Hell it could incorporate the Alarm clock that rings only if you're in bed, if Phundug wishes to pursue a collaboration... |
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Is it just me or can nobody see that this is a terrible idea |
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What's terrible about it? Not for you, perhaps, but really, what's wrong with this? |
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Because there is no point. My alarm doesn't beep all day, it stops itself after an hour. But I remember to turn it off anyways |
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//My alarm doesn't beep all day// |
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Then this isn't for your alarm. My alarm does keep going all day. I use the radio setting, so it turns on the radio at a high volume setting. This will keep going all day, I've come home from work and the radio's still on. |
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// Because there is no point// |
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Obviously, the point is to prevent the alarm from going all day, which, obviously, several alarm clocks do. Probably at least 8 of them. ^ |
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Not to mention, [mindboggle], your 1-hour auto shutoff clock doesn't mitigate Problem #2 in the idea text. |
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It should be able to detect wether or not you will need the alarm in the morning based on your sleeping behavior. |
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[link} Read pooducks anno, or did you? |
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Well I have my alarm on radio and if I am currently engaged in the toilet and it goes off i somehow, just barely, manage to sit through the deafening sound that is the morning crew. If you don't like the buzzer change the the alarm to radio. I'm pretty sure most radio's have auto shut off if they were bought after 1985 |
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My alarm (bought 2 years ago [M_B]) doubles as a CD player so I set it to play my music to wake me up. It'll just play the CD on loop until I turn it off. When was living in the apartment I had last year, I can't even begin to describe how much it would annoy my neighbours when I'd go away for the weekend and forget to turn it off. I regret that I have only one bun to give. |
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My bed side alarm also has a CD player plus auto shut off. PLus every bedside radio I've ever had (admittedly I've only had 3) all have had auto shut off. I regret that I only have one fishbone to give |
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I fail to see your tenacious opposition to this idea. Even if we were to presume that all alarms were to stop after an hour, as yours does. It could still be an annoyance to others. The suggested solution is not intrusive nor would it interfere with your life in any way. That you wouldn't personally purchase one doesn't make it a bad idea. |
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That I wouldn't personally purchase one does make it a bad idea in my book. How loud do you people have your alarm clocks anyway? Mine's never been so aloud as to cause unrest to my neighbours in the building I live in. |
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I would never live in a Film Noir Home, visit the ARRRRRGH'S!!! franchise or wear Hide Behind Your Tiny Hands glasses. This does not prevent me from thinking that they are brilliant ideas. |
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Speaking purely for myself, whilst I truly enjoy reading ideas that make me think 'I really want one of those' (as this one does), I also appreciate ideas that would be commercially viable if brought to sale, even if I personally wouldn't want one. |
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Deep sleeper with thin walls. |
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What ht said. Some of us require louder alarms to wake us up. The fact that you happen to be a light sleeper and live either in a very thick-walled apartment or a house that is physically separated from your neighbors does not by any means imply that the rest of us have similar living conditions. This idea is very apartment-friendly. Also very friendly to anybody else who may live in your home with you but has a different work/sleep cycle. |
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by the way, M_B, I just read your profile... |
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Does not seem to describe you at all, if your annotations to every idea in the last few days are any indication whatsoever. |
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The perfect gift, for that special someone who leaves the alarm on all the f'n' time. |
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(More of a gift for that person's roommate...) |
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I can't help it that I keep reading bad ideas |
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You've posted a total of four ideas with a collective total of 2 votes. What is your idea of a "good" idea? Because you haven't posted any that I'd consider good. |
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[21Q] much as he is making himself appear obnoxious, the lack of votes on his ideas is because they are pre-crash and most of their votes are wiped out. |
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I wouldn't buy rock climbing equipment and take up rock climbing, but that doesn't make it a bad idea in my book - just one that doesn't suit me. I'm not the golden standard, and to suggest that I was would be remarkably egocentric and arrogant. |
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I love my alarm clock. You just know youre going to have a great day when it starts with a shrill, scratchy, warbling, pulsating siren. [see link.] |
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Wow! (Using a keyboard as the weight sensor is clever) |
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I wonder if that guy is one of our own.
Anyone wish to come forward and claim
your praise? |
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By the way, where do I pick up my money? |
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you could add the same occupant sensor that is used in cars to identify weight and position - if you have more than 1 bed occupant, you could simply put in your weights and corresponding alarm time and the bed will wake you up individually. |
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i am a year late but i will bun this idea anyways. [+] |
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