This is a great example of a new approach to an old problem: an alarm clock that literally jumps off your bedside table, rolls away and hides, and then goes off again a few minutes later, forcing you to get up and rummage around looking for it, and helping you to wake up in the process.
Article about the clock here. My favourite quote, about people who perpetually struggle to get up in the morning:
They’re not lazy, they’re just phase-delayed
(via Slashdot)
This is a little more elegant, but not quite as much fun as the alarm clock that shot a bunch of plastic balls in random directions and wouldn’t stop alarming until you’d found and replaced all the balls. I can’t find a link right now. I’ll procrastinate harder later on and see if I can dig it up.
That ball-shooting alarm clock sounds great (wait, that gives me another idea).
Check out the Slumbertumbler, which pushes you out of bed, and the Deconstructionist Alarm Clock which gradually causes your bed to disintegrate (unfortunately not real products…).