Tag: CLOCK

Getting out of bed can be one the most difficult and least pleasant things any person has to do every day. Designers have dreamed up vibrating alarm clocks, deafeningly loud alarm clocks, rolling alarm clocks, even flying alarm clocks to help those of us who have a little trouble getting moving in the early hours. Joel Escalona has put together a concept device, dubbed Seven, that doesn't scare ...

Having trouble waking up in the morning? Your daily battle against the Zs might not be a function of being a bad or heavy sleeper, but could simply be that you're trying to wake up during a particularly deep moment of rest. The $149 SleepTracker wristwatch monitors your nightly sleep cycles and wakes you up in the morning during an optimal moment of light sleep, which, according to the ...

Carpe Diem, live for the moment, there's no time like the present, and other such trite figures of speech combined with a healthy sense of irony have produced the 'NOW Watch.' There isn't much to explain. This trendy, wide-band watch has a face that simply says 'NOW.' No hidden watch face, no obscured digital read out. Just large, reflective letters that spell out 'Now.' Perhaps it says ...

Share There are many mysteries in this world, like 'What the heck happened to Britney Spears?' for example. Or, 'Why does it seem like every alarm clock I've ever owned snoozes for nine minutes?' Thankfully Mental Floss, the brain teaser and trivia magazine, has an explanation for the latter (we may never get an answer about Britney). When the first alarm clocks were built, the snooze gear ...

Waking up is hard. That alarm goes off and you hit the snooze button at least once... probably more. You're just not a morning person and that's okay. Not everyone can be. So what can you do to force yourself out of bed? How about getting an alarm clock that runs away from you. Clocky, a product from MIT alumnus Gauri Nanda, rolls off your night stand and finds a place to hide after you've hit ...