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Crazy Alarm Clock Dials Your Friends If You Don't Wake Up

by Darren Murph on July 2, 2008 at 05:40 PM

We've seen alarm clocks institute some fairly unorthodox methods of waking users up, but this is exceptionally high on the list of "oh, no they didn'ts." Alice Wang's Tyrant, which we can only assume is a concept, actually dials a random number in one's mobile contact list for every three minutes that the sleeper doesn't address the obnoxiously loud ringing. In other words, unless you pick yourself up out of bed within ten minutes of the alarm going off, you'll have three angry friends wondering why they're getting phone calls from you
everyday at O-five-hundred hours.

Brilliant. Pure, sadistic, barbarous brilliance. [Source: Alice Wang Via Coolest-Gadgets]

Tags: alarm clock, AlarmClock, alice wang, AliceWang, clock, comedy, concept, design, funny, Tyrant

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