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World's Craziest Alarm Clocks



Getting up in the morning is the worst. The other worst is a roomate/BF/GF/whatever. who compulsively hits the snooze button. Gadgets are here to fix both problems, and Trendhunter has compiled a list of 24 eccentric alarms to suit your style.

Choices range from fun and charming, like the '80s Rubix Cube Alarm, to gross and skeevy (see Pole Dancer Alarm) and everything in between.

For those that have trouble getting out of bed, there are now alarm clocks that can motivate you to wake up with crackling strips of bacon or a warm bowl of Quaker Oats. We're still waiting for an alarm clock that makes coffee, but the Wake n' bacon clock looks like a pig and is pretty rad, if in an excessive way.

For the loser-snoozers, there is Clocky, a cute lil' clock that looks kind of like an Anime marshmallow on wheels. It gives you one chance to wake up, then rolls away and hides, beeping loudly, until you get out of bed to find it. The Shocking Alarm Clock, a somewhat draconian alarm, zaps sleepers when they try to hit the snooze button. This sounds really traumatic, but could be useful for teaching some people a lesson. Though we suppose you could just turn the alarm off, defeating the purpose altogether...

Our favorite is the the Commuter Alarm Clock, which has special dials to tell you the position of all the major trains in Tokyo (kinda useless in the United States, but cool-looking nonetheless). The scariest-sounding one, among many scary alarm clocks, is not a clock at all, but a weird wake-up pill from some vitamin dealer. Alarming? It's actually just vitamin B, ginseng, etc. The stripper alarm is the actual scariest. [Source: Trendhunter Magazine]

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