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It's all too easy. You are roused from blissful slumber by the jangling squawk of an electronic rooster. So far, so good; that's what alarm clocks are meant to do.
A weary arm instinctively finds the SNOOZE button and you burrow back under the blankets for another 9 minutes.
Repeat.
Repeat.
Repeat.
Crazed-dash-through-shower-wardrobe-kitchen-front-door-gate
run-half-a-mile-lunge-at-closing-doors
of bus-train-tram;
made it!
Not anymore. When the Exploding Alarm Clock goes off it breaks into a dozen pieces. If you're lucky the annoying bit lands within reach. However, this is not much help, as the clock has to be reassembled to shut it up.
By the time you've put it back together you are wide awake, and out of bed as you have had to retrieve bits of the contraption from under the bed, the top of the wardrobe, the hallway, etc.
No, tape does not stick to the surface of it. It slides right off, allowing it to come apart every morning.
(??) 9 minute snooze period explained.
http://www.charlott...te/news/6573065.htm
Why the snooze period on an alarm clock is 9 minutes [pjd, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Why is the snooze period 9 minutes ?
(i mean i know it is on my alarm clock, but why 9 ?) |
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Beats me. Conspiracy? Maybe the International Chronometrical Conspiracists decreed 10 minutes was too indulgent? |
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Ah, the good ole' days of bizarre clocks. </reminiscence> |
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String? It still collapses when it explodes. Putting it back together is the cure for the noise. |
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As annoying as the damn thing may be, I reeeaaaalllllly need one. |
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Yes, but you don't have to search all over the room. |
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This appeals to me, maybe because I like seeing things explode. Remember those crash test dummy figurines? |
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I think I would soon have it in smaller pieces than the design intended, but bun for the craziness factor. + |
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Like the concept, but I'm having some trouble understanding how it would work. How could something act as a whole (ring an alarm) when it's in pieces, yet not be able to be deactivated until its reassembled? |
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a curcuit loop running thru the disassembled pieces?
alarm deactivation switch not enabled until continuous curcuit detected. (I don't know if that works or not) |
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Fairly simply, waugsqueke. The alarm module has a switch on it that can only be activated/deactivated by a lever recessed in another of the parts. That lever is spring loaded and lies in a recessed groove until the case is clipped into place. |
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All of the bits carry a part of the circuit that allow it to be switched off, or on. Once it gets to the time at which it's set to go off then it just pops apart and breaks the circuit. |
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Love it, but say I lose a piece. How does it work the next morning? Decent writing, too. |
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The 9 is a psychological thing. Since people don't think about numbers strictly in a linear fashion. To someone who's groggy, 9 seems really late, while anything ending in a 0 would just end up with another ten minutes of snoozing. |
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At seven-thirty in the morning, I don't think. I hit the snooze button without remembering or I turn it off in my sleep. [RayfordSteele], thankyou. I have been pondering this for 2 minutes every morning for a while. |
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On the topic about trying to keep it together, could you not keep it in the original box? It would contain all of the pieces and should hold most of them in place. Then again, it defeats the whole purpose of the exploding alarm clock. |
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Or you could opt not to own an alarm clock? This is about an alarm clock that's hard to ignore, not about how to thwart it. |
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Oh god no.
From what pit of hell did you dredge this idea [Zanzibar]? |
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The one that opened up while I was contemplating how to avoid being late again for work. |
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//Why is the snooze period 9 minutes ? //It makes ya think & calculate time nervously. Were it 10, it'd be too easy to slumber above and beyond you and the alarm clock's call of duty. |
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snooze periods should be random. that would make life interesting. my daft dog usually wakes me up 15 minutes *before* the alarm goes off - that is annoying. |
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Unless you're the dog, [po]. This way Eric gets you all to himself for 15 minutes. |
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To stop the alarm , you don't need to concentrate and put the puzzle back together... just find the noisy piece and throw it out a window. |
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That leads me to suggest that each piece should be capable of earth-shattering noise (maybe link them wirelessly - should one part go out of range or stop without the clock being solved then another piece can takeover). That way, a bear with sore head (me in the morning) has to put the clock together again. |
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//just find the noisy piece and throw it out a window//
[Jinbish] That may result in arrest, depending on what time it is. |
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True. In fairness, I'd be more inclined to throw it against a wall as hard as possible. |
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I'll bet you wouldn't. I've met people who claim they would throw an alarm clock, but none who have. |
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9 minute snooze period explained - see link. |
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The link is broken, but the reason for the nine-minute timer is that it allows the clock to monitor only the last digit - when it goes to one below, hell shall break loose. |
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What if the actual alarm clock-unit itself was like a normal alarm clock. But, instead of having an off button, there would be "puzzle pieces" that had protrusions of different shapes that fit into various holes in the thing. All the holes have to have something in them for the alarm to shut off. There could be a spring and a lock in each hole. When the time comes, the alarm rings, and all the covering pieces spring off, adn you have to put them back on to shut it up. To make it harder to just remove the power source, it could be battery operated and have a screw on the battery holder. If the batteries are low, the display could flash "LO BATT" or a battery symbol, or just a red light could come on to indicate low batteries. |
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Combine this with [zevkirsh]'s recent cock punching variant and you'd never sleep in. |
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