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Playing with bubble blowers with my kids this morning, while we were all about to get up for the day, I realised alarm clocks could be much more fun.
Just fit a small fan and a bubble blower to your alarm clock. By the time you're awake the room is filled with a swirling maelstrom of bubbles, each
sparkling in the dawn's early light.
The deluxe version ensures the stream of air that goes into the bubbles is scented with coffee, fresh croissants and new-mown hay.
Bubble Machine
http://www.latestbu...bubble_machine.html
Moving loops and bits, for [pertinax] [neutrinos_shadow, Dec 11 2007]
Fhoam!_20Calls
more portable version ? [xenzag, Dec 15 2007]
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For "snooze abusers", this could be intensified into a dense, expanding lather that slowly engulfs your room like an overflowing dishwasher - giving you incentive to get out of bed while you can still breathe. |
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That sounds like fun [pd]. It might be a bit scary if you were still hung over. |
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Now, with a "manual" bubble-blower, there's a dip/raise/blow cycle, isn't there? Will the alarm clock have to drive some moving parts to do this, or have you thought of some more ingenious way to keep the loop freshened with soapy film? |
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Maybe the simplest mechanism would use a wheel with several loops so that there's a soapy loop passing in front of the fan most of the time. That way, you don't have to keep toggling the fan, but you still minimize wasted fan power. |
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I wonder whether you could overlap the loops in some way so that no 'breath' is wasted. |
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A tiny pump, delivering the soap mix up to the top of the bubble loop at a steady rate would ensure a self-renewing film. |
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That should take care of the problem, [pertinax]? |
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an ever-growing bubble of bubble gum getting bigger and bigger as the lazy git continues to ignore the alarm until it finally bursts engulfing said git, bed and sidetable in a sticky gooey mess - that'll learn 'em. |
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But the actual hardware might become the subject of both mass-marketing and individual customisation. It might even transpire that youth-targeted television programs are created to glorify such customisations, in particular to the powered elements such as the pump. |
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"Pimp My Bubble Alarm Clock", with Jeremy Clarkson, tonight at 7:30? |
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I like "swirling maelstrom of bubbles, each sparkling in the dawn's early light" - it's just a shame that dawn is some time after I have to get up now. |
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//That should take care of the problem, [pertinax]?// |
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Absolutely. This is just the sort of thing we like. [+] |
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We'll be announcing an accessory, to be named "False Dawn" for those unfortunates who have to arise before daylight, whether by necessity or dint of latitude, [hippo]. |
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It will be offered in Q2 2008, in an upsell option campaign, according to our current marketing campaign timetable for the southern hemisphere. It will come online in the northern hemisphere in late Q3 2008, as the northern autumn sets in. |
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Effectively, it's a high intensity lamp, designed to illuminate the bubbles from behind a shield to protect the user's eyes. It emits a coruscating range of colours from pink, through orange to a rich golden colour, simulating dawn sky pigmentation. |
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// simulating dawn sky pigmentation // |
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Depends which planet you're on .... |
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There's always the option of adding a scent to the bubbles, too. |
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This idea, provides a great image of awakening to a a shimmering wonderland of floating bubbles, where one would gracefully leap from bed, spinning in one's bedclothes as bubbles land gently on your outstretched palms, as a nest of birdlings chirping outside your window provide the ambiance. |
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But realistically, you'd wake up after a barely adequate night of sleep, and rub one of those soapy bubbles right into your eye. |
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Some might. I have the fortunate habit of awakening rested and cheerful. |
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// I have the fortunate habit of awakening
rested and cheerful.// Maintaining a habit
of awakening is fortunate however you do
it. |
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It still seems to escape some who walk among us. |
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//Maybe the simplest mechanism would use a wheel with several loops so that there's a soapy loop passing in front of the fan most of the time. That way, you don't have to keep toggling the fan, but you still minimize wasted fan power.// |
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That's it. That is exactly how a bubble machine works. |
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I would like one of these. |
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I just don't get how this would wake me
up? I usually need something very loud,
persistent and annoying to wake me up
(insert your own marital related joke here).
Bubbles are none of these things. |
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[+] for scent alarm clock. |
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