Another permutation of the “I have zero oneiric willpower, so I need an automoton to aggravate me until I get up” school of alarm clock design, the Money-Saving BanClock requires the plunk-in of a quarter to turn it off or hit the snooze button. Apparently, this will allow you to “save money,” but according to my calculations, you will need to use it 240 nights in a row before you recover its $60 asking price.
You will smash it long before you recoup your investment. I remain unconvinced that anyone would actually turn it off in the intended fashion. Descrying the cruel glimmers of a bloody dawn through snot-bleary eyes, who is going to rifle through cast-off pockets for change when they can simply violently rip the BanClock’s umbilical from the electric omphalos of the power socket, or simply fling it dramatically against the wall?
Dreams Money-Saving BanClock [AudioCubes via Slashgear]
At the rate you’re spending fifty cent words, you’ll never save anything.
I used to have a lot of trouble getting up in the morning. I’d have hit the snooze like 3 times before I even realized I did it. I could probably feed this thing a buck fifty before I was aware I’d run out of change.
I finally started using the alarm on my cell phone to get me up. I just leave the cell phone somewhere out of reach of the bed so that I have to actually get up to turn it off. Now I wake up on the first “ring” every time.
If someone I live with had this I’d wake up early, stand next to the clock and put in a quarter when it went off. They’d sleep in for half an hour, and I’d watch them make a mad rush to get ready at my leisure.
But hey it’s all ok, I gave them a quarter.
you guys should be aware of this I suppose, not that I really want to encourage you’re grandiloquent verbiage.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4799560.ece
So sorry I’m late! I spent all my change sleeping, so I didn’t have bus fare.