Alarm Clock Senses When You Get Out of Bed

Joel Escalona has put together a concept device, dubbed Seven, that doesn't scare you out of bed, or force you to chase a device around the room. Instead this Volvo for Life Design Award winner plays back your favorite (or more effectively your least favorite) MP3 song file, gradually raising the volume until the built-in motion detectors sense you lumbering about the room preparing for your day.
The device sure is pretty, but we're wondering how effective it will be. The novel idea could be done in if the motion sensors are too sensitive. Will it actually be able to make sure you're up and moving about the room before it shuts off, or will you be able to stop the alarm by simply waving your hand in front of it?
From Shiny Shiny
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsjjayMar 11th 2008 10:12PM
What I would be worried about is my cat accidently turning it off when she tries to see what is making the noise.
mikeMar 12th 2008 8:31PM
aww lol cats are a pisser
BaderJDCPAMar 12th 2008 8:51PM
You think that alarm clock is bad. I have a Dick Vitale alarm clock. When it goes off, it gives one of twenty-four recordings of Dicky V spouting off some of his color metaphors. Naturally, this has been confiscated by my spouse and it's location is unknown after diligent searches. LOL!
KenMar 12th 2008 10:13PM
William Shatner "Common People"?
Yup! That'd do it for me!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
DeannahMar 12th 2008 10:57PM
Sounds like a pretty good idea for an alarm clock. Maybe it will become popular and sell millions.
MaryMar 12th 2008 10:53PM
I keep my alarm in the bathroom adjacent from my bedroom. I just make sure the door is left open, and when I wake up I have to make a short walk to the very place my day starts in to turn it off. Since I am already there, I just stay and start the shower. It works most of the time.
JZMar 12th 2008 10:55PM
I have an Obama grandfather clock. On the hour, every hour, it says "change, change, change..."
tracycousinsMar 12th 2008 11:24PM
ok this is supposed to get you out of bed, you can trun off the clock and still stay in bed, you dont need this over priced thing to get out of bed, hell sleep with your blinds open, or get an old alarm clock and you'll get your butt up if you wanna keep a paycheck...lol.
LizaMar 12th 2008 11:29PM
Best alarm clock I've ever owned (from American Express)sounds like a Church tower bell. It actually gongs. I mean GONGS! It can be heard three rooms away, three streets away, three towns away. The sound is amazing and nobody can lie in bed after the second GONG. It sounds/feels like a Electric Shock treatment.
zombozanyMar 12th 2008 11:31PM
What's next electrodes on my balls
carolineMar 12th 2008 11:44PM
i'd rather have the clock that flies!! haha
LauriMar 13th 2008 12:02AM
I am a truck driver, and I have what is called a Screaming Meanie. It is 220 decibels and if it doesn't wake you up, it's because you have gone deaf from hearing it go off. If you don't shut it off, the guy 3 trucks down will come pound on your truck, tell you to shut the thing off, thank you for waking him up just after he finally fell asleep, mutter a few choice words, then he or she will go back to their truck...ok, that is an exaggeration, but you definately can hear it outside the truck, and it is deafening, but it gets the job done...that is, when I don't shut it off, roll over, and go back to sleep with it still in my hand. Oh, and if you forget to shut it off, and you start driving and it goes off, it will definately scare the beJesus out of you...LOL
Lauri
NatashaMar 13th 2008 3:08AM
I must say, after reading a few of these comments, I have literally laughed.
I use my phone as an alarm & I choose one of the most annoying "already there" ringtones.
Y'know, the ones you'd never use under normal circumstances.
If I know I'm gonna need something to tell me to wake my ass up, I'll use that siren that sounds like there's a damn fire truck in your room.
I used to have an alarm clock that would click the radio on when it went off until my cousin was over & was apparently playing with it.
It went off the next morning & made me fall out of my bed.
My cousin had apparently turned it up ALL the way.
KimMar 13th 2008 3:23AM
Why do you need all this cr*p to get up? I don't even use an alarm clock, I just have my shades pulled up and when the light comes in your room at 6am, you wake up. Either that, or put a regular clock across the room, so you have to get out bed to turn it off. Besides, if you really wanted to keep your job, you'd get out of bed easily enough.
VanMar 13th 2008 4:02AM
The best worst song that would get me up to shut off the alarm clock would be 'Freebird' by Lynard Skynard. I would climb onto the roof to turn off that song.
MikeMar 13th 2008 4:23AM
Where do you live that the sun shines in the window at 6 am? It certainly doesn't do that in the winter, and usually not even in the summer. Plus, being a night owl, when I haven't gone to bed until 5 am, I can sleep right through any light. Doesn't bother me a bit. So yes, an alarm clock is anneded. A loud annoying one.
michael wittelsbachMar 13th 2008 4:41AM
My cat wakes me up every morning. We have an agreement. He pesters the S**T out of me until I wake up and feed him. The closest thing I have come to seeing it on the web is in www.boomerjokes.com under the headung "Cat People - this is your wake up call"
forkuuMar 13th 2008 5:24AM
an alarm clock is a personal thing.
some like a loud one others just enough to get us going. its like a fart
LeroyMar 13th 2008 5:35AM
Our alarm clock sounds like a leak alert horn for a nuclear reactor.
and we keep it about 6 feet from the bed.
artieMar 14th 2008 8:15AM
christ you people need to get a life, its appparent none of ya get out much