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There's no escape from this alarm clock

Source: PTI
March 25, 2005 16:10 IST
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An Indian scientist has developed an innovative 'hide-and-seek' alarm clock which would force even the laziest person to wake up from sleep.

Gauri Nanda, a 25-year-old scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, calls her discovery a
"clocky that's designed to get sleepyheads moving."

When the snooze button is pressed, the clock rolls to a hiding place where it lies in wait for 10 minutes before ringing again.

It chooses a new hiding place every time and will force even the laziest

person to wake up and search for it.

Nanda's clocky looks like a roll of toilet paper with wheels attached at both ends.

"People are always talking about finding a gentle way to wake up. I wanted something that's annoying like a dog, that
forces you to get up, but that you love even though it's annoying," Nanda was quoted as saying by the York Daily
News
.

Nanda said she is in the process of getting the new creation patented.

Clocky should hit the stores in about a year, she added.

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