The compact dock places your iPhone at just the right angle to read it in bed. Coupled with its Clock App, you’ll be able to quickly check out time and date at a glance. In addition to using it as an alarm clock, you can use the Ideal Timepiece dock for hands-free calls, thanks to an acoustic amplifier that will add +10dB to your iPhone’s stock sound without power. It’s also got a special channeled port to ensure your voice is heard clearly during phone calls and for using Siri.

It’s also got convenient integrated wire management on the back, so you can wrap up any excess charging cord.

The Ideal Timepiece is compatible with both iPhone 4 and 4S models.

In order to get the plain dock, you’ll have to pledge $89 (USD) on Kickstarter. For $105, you’ll get a tiny flag covering the dock instead of the plain model. The available flags are US, UK, France and Italy. Once it’s crowd-funded, the Ideal Timepiece will retail for $135.

While I wish you had to slash it with a lightsaber to shut it off, they decided that you’re supposed to throw it across the room in order to shut the alarm off. I suppose that’s a good way to get your aggression out first thing in the morning, but I’d be afraid that I’d break it (or something else in its path of destruction.) It’s not like it looks like this thing is made from rubber after all.

To make your morning routine more challenging, be sure to wear a helmet with the blast shield down when you reach for it.

The Jedi Training Remote Alarm Clock should be out this April/May. I haven’t found a U.S. retailer yet, but they are available for pre-order now over at Australia’s Frontline Hobbies for $29.99 (AUS) (~$32 USD) and at UK seller ForbiddenPlanet for £19.99 (~$31 USD).

The Napper lets you easily take short naps 15, 30 or 60 minutes in length. I actually nodded off in approval when I saw this product. Then I realized how easy it already is to set up an alarm on my phone. Then I looked at the Napper again and resumed nodding off once more.

Set an alarm so you’ll remember to order the Napper on Amazon for $15 (USD).

[via Craziest Gadgets]

Nothing is more annoying than waking up to the sound of someone else’s alarm, especially if that someone else is still sleeping and drooling all over their pillow. I’ve thrown the occasional pillow or two at the said someone before going back to sleep in a grumpier mood.

If you find yourself in a similar dilemma, then you might want to consider gifting them with the Chirp Alarm Clock. Not only is it a pretty simplistic and attractive alarm clock, but it also makes sure to wake only the person who set the alarm, and not anyone else.

How? Well, the Chirp Alarm Clock comes with a vibrating clip that you can clip onto your pillow, shirt, hair, or wherever you want it to. It vibrates at the set alarm time for a certain period of time, so once you’re up, just insert the clip back onto the base to make it stop vibrating. If you don’t do so though, then an audible alarm (the annoying one) will ring out to make sure that you get out of bed, pronto.

The Chirp Alarm Clock is in pre-production, and garnering pricing feedback over at Quirky, so if you’re interested in one be sure to drop by and provide your thoughts. Currently, the estimated market price for the Chirp is about $18 (USD).

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Just tie it to your bedding and activate it with a timer to make it run away when the alarm is activated, pulling the covers off. It wakes you every morning and then poops. Then, I assume you change the filter. So basically you just had a baby.

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The Edifier Tick Tock Dock has a funny name, and it targets the entry-level market. The alarm “bells” are actually 1.5-inch omni-directional speakers, supposedly delivering 360-degree sound from 7W drivers. The LCD is round and well-lit, though your iPhone takes over for it when docked. It plays music via the SD card reader, USB input, FM radio, or any MP3 device via the AUX input. If you opt for the Bluetooth model, it can connect to your smartphone and play music wirelessly, but then doesn’t act as a dock.

Both the docking version and Bluetooth models sell for $79.99, while a basic model with neither dock, nor Bluetooth, and sells for $69.99.

[via Ubergizmo]

When I first saw this Hot Wheels alarm clock, I was all excited that the car actually looped around the track. Unfortunately, it looks like it’s just glued there from the box photo below. If I tried that with a real Hot Wheels set, I’d be disqualified for cheating.

While it really would be better if the car actually did do a 360 every morning, I suppose it might inspire someone to hack their own version that actually does that. For now, Hot Wheels fans can get their hands on this clock over at Toys R Us for $25 (USD).

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The XS is also an FM radio and an alarm clock. The 2.1 speaker system has two 1″ tweeters and a 2¼” woofer, which is pretty good for a device of its size. The battery is rechargeable, and you’ll get 5 hours of play time.

If your media player doesn’t support Bluetooth or you just don’t want to waste battery, the XS also has a 3.5mm audio jack.

It weighs 1.1 pounds and measures 6.2″×4″×4.5″. The best part is the discrete LED display that shines through the speaker grille, along with the touch sensitive controls.

It will sell for $250 and is available for pre-order directly from Geneva Lab in black, white or red.

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Looking sort of like one of those little rollermines that bounces around in Half-Life 2, this alarm clock isn’t going to detonate when it goes off. Instead, it just bounces around while it lights up and plays some stupid music. Here, see what I mean:

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Well, that’s annoying enough that I’d have to throw it across the room if I had to wake up to that every day. And no, you don’t get to pick the music. That’s the only tune it plays. Still, if you want an alarm clock that will get you out of bed, this is definitely one to check out. The Jumping Alarm Clock sells for about $16 (USD) over at Overstock.com, where it likely has landed because nobody really wants to buy them. I wonder why?

The sharp text outlines are easily visible thanks to the bright LEDs inside. You can engage the snooze function by simply touching the clock. The clock is machined from a single block aluminum. It comes in seven different colors, and the front panel is held in place by magnets, so you can switch colors if you get bored. It’s also available in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Russian and Spanish.

It also offers an alarm clock mode, which can be snoozed by simply touching the face of the clock. The reading light mode illuminates the entire clock face, switching on all 114 LEDs inside. Get ready to pay for all of this style, because the QLOCKTWO Touch sells for $599 to $650 (USD) at the Biegert & Funk store.

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As you can see, the clock has four wires. Only one of them stops the countdown when cut. The other two are decoys and do nothing while one wire will immediately “detonate” the alarm. Obviously the thrill will wear off if the wires had fixed purposes, which is why Krumpus made it so the the role of each wire is randomized each time the sequence is activated.

By the way the countdown sequence isn’t just for the alarm. It can also be activated at any time by pressing the big red button, perfect for Counter-Strike LARPing. Here’s the clock in action:

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Yes, you’ll have to replace any wires you cut, but Krumpus says that replacing them will be easy because they’re attached with screw terminals. Krumpus also made a mock C4 version of the clock, just for kicks:

The “bomb” is powered by an ATMega328 microcontroller with an Arduino bootloader. If you didn’t understand a word from that previous sentence either, fret not! Krumpus will be selling a kit this fall so you can have your own Defusable Clock. The kit will only include the electronics, but I’m sure you can cobble together a bomb-looking device. The kit will also be “fully hackable” so Arduino nuts and tinkerers will get more than their money’s worth with this thing.

[Project Lab via Laughing Squid]

Since I don’t speak Japanese, it’s hard for me to tell exactly what’s going on in this commercial, but it appears that the Clockman iD is an alarm clock that makes various faces depending on the mood its in.

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How do I know that from that video clip, you may ask? Well, actually this isn’t the first in the Clockman series. The original has been out for a while now, but all they seemed to do is have a mouth that made an “O”. It seems that with the Clockman iD, they’re trying to give these guys a little more personality. This time, you can move around the pieces of his face, and give your Clockman his own unique identity (hence the “iD” name.)

Still, it doesn’t make too much sense to me even with that explanation. If you’re looking for the weirdest possible alarm clock to put on your bedside table, check in over at Strapya World, who should start taking orders for the Clockman iD soon.

The Sonic Bomb also has three red LEDs that can be made to flash and comes with a vibrating pad you can place under your pillow to shake you awake.

Again, not terribly creative, and also unnecessary in the face of its ear-splitting sonic blast. If you think you need something this strong, hit up Hammacher Schlemmer and pay $35 (USD). Or go see a specialist.

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On some days, the wail of the alarm was enough to set me off. Overdue reports, a thesis to work on, examinations to study for – and the list goes on. If you’re knee-deep in a lot of stuff (be it for school or for work or just personal stuff) and want to somehow relieve yourself of all that early morning stress (albeit in a pretty silly-slash-serious way), then you can do so by shooting up your alarm clock early in the morning in order to keep it quiet.

No bullets involved here, but you do have to point the gun towards the face of the clock to silence the alarm. You don’t need to pull any triggers either, though I wish the manufacturers required you to pull the trigger to shut the alarm off, to make a stronger point, you know.

Nonetheless, this alarm clock with the remote control that’s shaped like a gun is still a pretty neat idea. If you want one of these, you can head on over to I Want One Of These (seriously, I love this store’s name) to get one for £22.95 (~$38 USD.)

[via Coolest Gadgets]

For braver souls, all you have to do to participate in TalkO’Clock is register your number. TalkO’Clock promises that they won’t give it away, not even to other users of the service. You then specify the time you want to be woken up as well as your preferred gender, if any, of your human alarm clock. If you want to exact revenge extend the same courtesy to another stranger, simply browse the list and volunteer to be a caller. Users are encouraged to be “original” with their wake up calls. Frightening.

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iOS and Android app versions are also forthcoming:

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This still doesn’t pass my ultimate alarm clock test. Also, the service is useless if you mute or turn off your phone (or destroy it after getting too many creepy wake-up calls from strangers.) It could make for a lot of interesting mornings though. I’m just not sure if that’s good interesting or bad interesting. TalkO’Clock is currently in beta and is available only in the USA and Canada. Check out the official website for more info.

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I bet you can hear it clearly now since I pointed it out. How about an alarm clock that not only wakes you by playing Space Invaders-eqsue sounds, but goes the extra distance by actually moving from side to side just like it does on screen? When you see it do it’s thing, you’ll have an urge to shoot it, just like in the game.

Sound good? Of course it does. We all love Space Invaders. Aside from the movement feature, this alarm clock may be a bit plain looking, but I am digging the retro buttons and the style of the digits. It will cost you £12.99 (~$21 USD) over at I Want One of Those.

When you’ve used up the preset number of snoozes, the game fires up. As you might have guessed, you’ll have to turn the clock sideways in order to play the game. It may not take a genius to play Tetris, but because each level is randomly generated it just might be enough to fire up your neurons and really wake you up.

Speaking of presets, this being an alarm clock made by a geek for geeks, it has a dizzying array of customizable parameters, from the brightness of the backlight to the number of times you can activate snooze. There are also four game modes of Tetris to choose from, but the geekiest feature of them all? Being able to set the alarm time down to the hundredths of a second.

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If it looks like Nolte919 created the clock from scratch, it’s because he did – from the basic electronic components to the software. This is probably one of the more advanced projects I’ve ever featured here. If you think you’re up to the task and like waking up to random puzzles, check out Instructables for the full set of instructions.

[via Ubergizmo]

The clock will wake you when the alarm goes off by turning on whatever it is that you have plugged into the outlets. You could have it wake you to music, a coffee maker, or a margarita blender depending on what you like first thing in the morning.

Other than those outlets, the clock is rather plain, although it does come in white or red colors. I would like to see some sort of cover over the ugly plugs when they’re not in use. I think most people would rather just stick with using their radio to wake up and a coffee pot with a timer to have their brew ready. Regardless, the Alternative Alarm Clock is only a concept for now.

[Vimeo via Dezeen]

This particular clock uses a VFD (vacuum flourescent display) like you might find on an older alarm clock or calculator, but instead of displaying boring old digits, this one tells time with an analog-style 34mm (1.33″) round clock face. This complete clock is created by the guys at Kosbo.com, and comes in a clear acrylic case that lets you see the entire circuit, both front and back.

It’s also got dual alarms built-in, and 8 adjustable brightness levels so it should work nicely as a bedside clock. They’ve even gone the extra mile to include an integrated backup battery, in case the power goes out. The clock is based on this circuit board, which can also be procured separately in case you want to make your own round-face VFD clock.

One example they posted was this cool mod somebody did, replacing the analog clock in their Mini Cooper:

Not too shabby, eh? I could see this looking good in many cars if you have the guts to rip apart your vehicle and install one. If you’re like me, you’re more likely to just pick up the fully assembled clock, which you can find over on eBay for £64.95 (~$104 USD). Keep in mind that they don’t include the 12VDC AC adapter that you’ll need to power it, but those are cheap and easy to find.

I must say I’m a bit confused by the dongles though. Looking at the concept pictures you’ll see that each dongle is actually a speaker. Does that mean that the sound will come out just through the dongles, or will they be able to use a gadget’s own speakers to blast the alarm? Probably both, since this is just a concept anyway, but the second possibility is much more menacing.

As one of the commenters at Yanko Design has mentioned, the biggest problem with the Cicadidae Clock is that you’ll have to leave several gadgets on or plugged in while you sleep, and that’s quite a waste of electricity. Maybe in the future when all our appliances are intelligent enough to have built-in alarm clocks and timers we’ll be able to set up something like this.

[via TechFresh]