Egh Egh Egh And Then Some

The snooze button.  It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.  Nay, it’s detention masked as recess.

How about multiple alarms set for different times to account for an ever-changing schedule?  Making sure the right one is set is a task in itself to keep up with.  Not to mention them actually waking you up.

Alice Wang has created novel concepts for alarm clocks that cater to “different people’s physical and emotional needs.” The Tyrant syncs with your mobile phone and “randomly shuffles through your contact list and calls someone every three minutes after the desired wake up time.”  Imagine your panic waking up not only to drunk texts but also to groggy, inconsiderate wake-up calls!  If you still sleep in when you have this alarm, then you’re just a straight jerk for real.  The Perfect Sleep is an alarm clock based on length of sleep instead of time of day – basically a stopwatch that looks a bit like a Monome – for those of us that have changing schedules instead of farm hours.

By using a new method that triggers a different emotion other than just being annoyed into waking up or using a pretty stopwatch instead of a time-based alarm, Wang is valuing the changing relationships people have with sleep and how it fits into their lives.  Her thinking is that “perhaps the function of the objects stay, but it is the process of how we interact with them that must change.”  It’s true, in this modern world, our lifestyles are governed by harvesting things other than crops.

[via animinimalism and Crazy Gadgets]