Alarm clock, and I keep it out of easy reach so that it drags my lazy ass outta bed.

The Magnificen7

@Curves: I've had that same dream...

...it was...unpleasant

Chromeo

@Chromeo: Is it your job to push the button in The Hatch this month?

frigg

iPod Alarm Clock Radio. Until an app is invented that can play a whole album continuously, rather than hearing 30 seconds of Freebird every time the snooze on my iPhone ends, I'm sticking with the traditional method.

But either way it's not likely, because I don't like leaving my iPhone on all night.

@Curves: Are we talking 70's still-kind-of-a-kid Eddie, 80's Hot For Teacher Eddie or present-day short-hair douchebag looking Eddie?

OMG! Ponies! Deservs It

Clock Radio. I've had this one for 10+ years and I'll probably use it until I'm dead. No sense spending money on that kind of stuff.

Not a fan of the cell phone alarm either. My cell phone is turned off 87% of the time, as phone calls are my #3 annoyance, right behind stupid drivers and little kids that play in my driveway at 4AM.

Elly

Yeah, uhm, where is the "both" choice?

Cell Phone to get me "some what" awake... with the alarm set obnoxiously loud (also across the room) to go off a few minutes later and thus the only drive to get out of bed is to turn the damn thing off before it goes its beeps from hell start screaming at me.

longxiongdi

cellphone and [onlineclock.net]

boi_PT

I use both. I set 5 separate times on my cell phone: 9:00,9:10,9:20,9:25 and 9:30, then I set my alarm clock for 9:32. I'm not a morning person. I use to ignore the alarm clock and just go back to sleep, then I started to use my cell phone as an alarm and I don't ignore it since I use the same ringer for the alarm as I do for my ring tone, so I never know if it is my alarm going off or someone calling me.

Jonathan21

Cellphone. The alarm clock is pointed toward where it the wrong time flashing won't bother me.

Alarm clock, set to that annoying beep since the radio does nothing to wake me up, but the music does provide a sound track for my dreams. (I screwed up and set it to radio once, Van Halen was playing and I dreamed of Eddie VanHalen by my bed. That was pretty cool.)

Curves

@Grifter: That's hilarious. Mine too. I remember the day when I used to get up "early" at 9 am on a Saturday.

I use my iphone most of the time. Sometimes, my cat tries to hit me b/c he's a hungry fat cat.

innout3x3

I use the....Homedics® Sound Spa™ Projection Clock Radio with Indoor/Outdoor Temperature

Its basically the Mercedes of alarm clocks. I wake up to jungle sounds, its nice...soothing.

praevalesco

Alarm clock unless I'm abroad.

Aloof

I use my iPhone set to the strum sound. It's allot less annoying than the fog horn I used to have.

In my divorce, my ex got the alarm clock. Ever since, I have used my mobile phone as an alarm. On my 8525, the WinMO alarm clock application was rediculous. To use the snooze button, still groggy from sleep you had to either use the stylus or fingernail to select the "menu" then "snooze". Since trading up to iPhone, now the snooze button appears on the screen for easy access or you swipe the unlock to turn it off. Now I am using the dock so it stands up and faces the bed for easy access but here is a dock with speakers I am thinking of getting that should make this solution even better. An enhancement suggestion for Apple would be that when the iPhone is docked, that it either keeps the display lit at the lowest setting to use as a desktop/nightstand clock or have it light up briefly when you wave your hand in front of the proximity sensor already on the phone that disables the screen when its close to your face. Anyway this application works great plus you can use it when travelling as well since hotel alarm clocks are generally wrong or broken.

MorganRW

Alarm clock, but only in desperate hope that the power will go out in the middle of the night and I'll have a plausible excuse to be late to work in the morning.

Both my boyfriend and I use our cellphones. As for radiation, I keep mine on a table at least two feet from my head. I doubt that'd cause any more problems than having it in my pocket all the time. ;-)

Sean Robertson

I have about 5 different alarms go off every morning.

First alarm clock at 4:45.
Then iPhone and Helio Ocean at 6.
Then iPhone and Alarm Clock at 7.
Then snooze until 7:30.

I'm a glutton for punishment apparently.

Chromeo

oh... the wonders of the mighty cellphone!

cell phones have tiny buttons and boring alarm noises. my alarm clock goes "BRAAP BRAAP BRAAP BRAAP BRAAP" really loud and it works as long as i have it far enough away that i have to sit up and acknowledge that it went off; otherwise, i slap the snooze button and go back to sleep. (due to some sort of malfunction, the snooze button makes it not go off again until the next day. yeah. bad.)

ABSOLUTELY!

I would be 2 hours late to work everyday if I didn't!

Chumby FTW! mine plas me a internet stream of my local NPR station so I get gently shaken awake by the soothing sounds of Steve Inskeep (or is it Ssteven Skeep?)and Renee Montaigne (who grew up in HI I just found out this AM.) :)

CaptLonestar

1 alarm clock with both cd playback and standard alarm, set to go off at different intervals.

about 10 different time settings on my iphone, which is hooked up to 2 wireless speakers around my apartment on full blast.

the irritating beep of my coffeemaker.

the amazing smell of what just came out of the coffeemaker.

morning sun beats right down on me through a massive window, and this time of year in particular, right at about 7:45 am it's brightest where my head is.

and, for the last week, my apartment's security alarm beeping telling me i have a low battery.

all that, and i still have trouble waking up before noon.

the_amazing_doug

I hope you people are smart enought o turn off the phone radio, if you can, when you have it next to you. Radiating your brain and body all day and all night is not good for you.

Laptop with Alarm Clock 2 scheduled for 5 5:30 and 6 AM hooked up to my JBL Soundsticks with the subwoofer under my bed. And I can still sleep through some of them, if I sleep that is.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

i have a good sense of time. i just think about the time i need to be awake by and im always 5-10 minutes before it

I use an alarm, but wake precisely 1 minute before it actually goes off- normally right when i'm thinking "damnit, that stupid alarm is going to go off any minute no*BEEP BEEP BEEP*

I have the alarm clock, dont use it except for the sleep funtion of the radio when I go to bed, cell for the alarm in the morning.

DoPeY5007

My servants wake me when they bring in my breakfast and a nubile virgin for my pleasure.

I'm not sure why the rest of you don't use this system, it's quite a nice way to begin the day.

HeyBeav

I use both. I set both my alarms on my alarm clock 2 min apart and then as a backup in case the power goes out or I sleep through my cell phone will go off 10 and then 12 min later.

So far i've only had the phone wake me up once but im glad it was set because I would have slept about 4 hours into my workday.

parad0x360

My landlords damn dog

When I actually have to wake up for something I use my computer, my phone isn't loud enough to wake me up.

I use both, alarm clock and cellphone at the same time in case I fall sleep. I don't use my iPhone as alarm clock though, it sucks for that. If the phone is off it won't turn on by itself and start with the alarm unlike my Motorola i876 which I use as alarm clock.

@bpapa9013: NO! WFT!:

Wayta Fcuk That!

bpapa9013

@turi319: Ah yes. But if my wife hid my phone before I woke up there is no way I would even hear it if it was farther than three inches from my head.

mcjake

The cell wakes me up by playing "Ev'ry day I'm Husteli'n" ever since I saw the Kat Williams segment in GTA4.

Mr.SithNinja

I actually wake up to a bengal cat paw in my face about 9am

Naoki - Photoshop Ninja

cellphone, the loud alarm is all i need

warxsnake

"As my cellphone chimed early this morning, I thought to myself in a groggy haze whether or not the majority of people out there have ditched the trusty alarm clock in favor of the cellphone alarm."

Seriously? You thought of a story/poll idea when just waking up?

I find that hard to believe, I'm a journalist and I can tell you that content planning was far from my mind this morning when I woke up. My thought process was, "Fuck I dont want to work. God damn I have to pee!"

mcjake

@bpapa9013: WTF?

bpapa9013

I use both. I tend to sleep through things, so if I've got them both going off, I can usually get out of bed.

DorkRawk

@bpapa9013: WFT?

bpapa9013

@SpeneyG: same here

@SpeneyG:
@kpburke:
@:
@Ethan Halko!:
@:
@Elijah86:

"Both" would have been a good option on the ballot huh?

bpapa9013

cellphone. hint, ask your partner to hide it, to force yourself to get up and find it.

turi319

Alarm clock? Yeah the iPhone has one.

Wait what?

You mean like... a clock OUTSIDE OF A PHONE??

WITCH! BURN IT!

@:

There is, it is called Clock and comes pre-installed courtesy of Apple. Have you even USED your iPhone yet? 8^)

tabaks

Alarm clock, but with only about 85% success, I either sleep through it or smack the alarm button in my sleep the other 15%. 90% of successes have 30 minutes of snooze though.

Con Seannery

The iPhone's alarm tones are weak. I have my Chumby set up to wake me up with the Bugle. Bad ass.

I gladly use the iPhone because I can customize the alarm sound and also get my morning dose of news while still half-asleep. However, there's one thing that annoys me to no end. I never saw anyone else complain about this, maybe I'm missing something obvious. iPhone alarm keeps rolling for frekkin EVER! If I'm not there to turn it off, it'd keep ringing until it runs out of battery. I'm almost afraid to leave it without checking whether I've accidentally forgotten an alarm which will keep ringing until one day it gets excavated by an alien civilization wondering "what's that annoying sound over there that just goes on for frekkin ever...?"

tabaks

cellphone with 3 alarms set and placed within a couple feet of my ear. What's an alarm clock? :P

Nothing like a pair of preschoolers to get you up in the morning. Nobody can sleep through two kids yelling "MOMMMMYYY WE'RE HUNNNNNGRY!"

i had to wake up at 4.50am this morning, and surprisingly the iphone did the job nicely, no flat batteries or anything!

digitalhen

both cell phone first so i don't wake the lady and then alarm clock about 5 mins before i have to leave just in case.

Elijah86

There isn't a cellphone on this earth loud enough to wake me up. The iPhone's alarm is so puny compared to my alarm clock that I only even bother setting it as a secondary alarm on exam days.

Knight

I actually, believe it or not, have a mental clock. If I think of a time that I need to wake up at, I do so the next morning, about a minute before I need to wake. Kinda freaky, but it seems to always work.

xAnarChisTx

I set my mac to wake me up. It plays revelry.

i also use both. i set my clock radio to go off about a half hour before the time i have to REALLY get up, at which point my cell goes off.

I only use my cellphone as an alarm clock to wake me up from naps. otherwise, in the morning, I just wake up when I wake up. no alarm clock shenanigans in the a.m.

hypnotik_jello

Last time I actually had to use a device to wake me up, I set my iPod, 3 alarms on my phone and my clock/radio alarm. When I woke up and wondered why the clock radio didn't go off, I realized it had but the "buzz" was so quiet a fly might as well have tried to wake me up.. so yeah.. phone.

Ethan Halko!

I have my Chumby go off with a bugle sound.. at the same time my iPhone goes off with a screaming orgasm...LOL

repeat 15 min later.

Perhaps I'd use a cell-phone if I had one. My current clock has bright green numbers that light up the entire room and make it really hard to sleep. What was wrong with red, clock radio industry?

The Sword Master

Is there a decent Alarm Clock app (with snooze, big display) for the iPhone?

can't pick 2 options... xD

my girl calls me @ 5am and then my cell alarm rings at 6am.

fun for all.

Soulgenesis

My girlfriend and I both use our iPhones to wake us up initially, but usually sleep for at least 30-45 minutes more then wake up with sex.

Take THAT, alarm-manufacturing market!

Old ass alarm clock. I can't guarantee that I was sober enough to remember to plug in the iPhone, much less find the alarm and set it.

The alarm clock is just one button.

GeekyNerdGuy

I use an alarm clock... like a normal human being.

OMG! Ponies! Deservs It

Cellphone, my missus does the same.

I use both. And snooze both for about 20 minutes.

kpburke

2 Year old wakes my ass up at 6:30 every morning. No alarm clock needed

Grifter

I use both. Alarm clock goes off first then cell phone. Otherwise I would fall back asleep.

SpeneyG

It really depends. Monday, Wednesday and Fridays I'm not required to come to the office so I just wake up when ever I feel like it.

I used to use my old razr for an alarm clock when I had to get up at a specific time, but switched to an iPhone and find that it's really not loud enough to get me.

Been thinking about turning the iMac into an alarm clock though.

maz

My wife and I both use our cellphones, I have all three alarms on my cellphone set, 1st alarm, 3 minute delay 2nd alarm, (first alarm goes off again 2 minutes after 2nd alarm, it has a 5 minute sleep) then a third alarm one minute after the repeat of the first alarm. And I usually press snooze for an hour or more. Sometimes I use my Nintendo DS alarm as well.

loudambiance

Cell phone, because even if the house loses power, that bitch keeps ticking.

NightElfMohawk

I combo my alarms.

Regular alarm (iPod dock alarm clock)
+
Cell Phone.

.Trenchant.

Oh and its worth mentioning... The cellphone is my main alarm because I've had it happen on more then one occasion where the power went out over night. Yeaaaaaah... The alarm never went off. Jobs aren't too understanding of this as I found out later those days.

I use my cell phone when traveling, and an old PDA that has been re-purposed as a full-time alarm clock when home.

Depends.

My girlfriend and I have different work schedules.

If we are both getting up around the same time I will use the alarm clock. If I have to get up before her then I will use my phone so it doesn't waker her up. Also, if I am not home, I will use my phone as my alarm.

maevro

@Mr.SithNinja: Hahaha... Same here. That skit was funny as hell and I thought to myself... Ya know, I do hustle everyday. Why shouldn't I wake up to my life's theme song?

Oh and I use both... The phone is set to the actual time I want to get up and the regular alarm clock is set 5 mins later... just for a back-up.

@SpeneyG:
Me too.

Alarm clock.

Two of them, actually, and the second one has two alarms in the morning. The microwave has a reminder (alarm) feature as well, and I sometimes use that, too, when I want to be sure I get up a little earlier the next morning.

Canthros

Cellphone (SE K850). Depending on how late I go to sleep, I choose a lighter or heavier music...
Then it fades in, as I fade out of my dreams..

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@praevalesco: I wake up to 'jungle' sounds too - my 11-month old.

EBone

tell application "iTunes"
stop
end tell
set volume 5.5
tell application "iTunes"
set sound volume to 100
set myplaylist to playlist "wakemup"
tell myplaylist
repeat 4 times
set shuffle to false
set shuffle to true
end repeat
play
end tell
end tell

harto

@OMG! Ponies! Deservs It: 1984 "Drop Dead Legs" kinda Eddie. (Before they have to photo shop him onto a hot bod.)

Curves

I use both an Alarm Clock and Cell Phone
when I'm really tired I've noticed that I can't tell which one is going off so I'll be repeatedly hitting the clock when its the phone going off hahaha

UndeadOverlord

Cellphone for the single biggest reason:

I don't want to reset my alarms on SAT & SUN. Once I have entered the weekly preferences, I forget about it, unless its a long weekend.

I always use two alarms (physical clock + cell phone). "My alarm clock didn't go off" is an acceptable excuse in college, but it doesn't really fly in any sort of real job.

Aubin

I tried the whole clock across the room thing, and I found that my brain learned the path through the crap on the floor to turn it off asleep and go back to bed.

Also, Curves, I had the BRRRRRRRNT BRRRRRRRRRNT BRRRRRRRRRRNT BRRRRRRRRNT in my dream once, and slept right through my alarm.

Con Seannery

I use my cellphone primarily but also for added redundancy I use [wakerupper.com.] Wakerupper will send a wake up call to any phone number and will even give you a message. For example, it could remind you...."Donna, you have a meeting at 8:30" or "Donna get up you lazy girl...you will get into trouble again for being late."

Plus for even more added redundancy when I have to get up for some REALLY important meeting I use the wake-up timer on my Sharp LCD TV in my bedroom.

But I really like wakerupper because it is nice to be able to take a power nap during the day on the couch in my office and have the phone wake me up.

donnatn

My alarm clock radio decided to die on me last year after 5 good years of service, so i decided to start using my phone as an alarm. My N95 wakes me up 30 minutes before my i-phone.
Its cheap easy and just as effective as a standalone device.

I am a light sleeper, so sometime around 6, someone opens my door, and that wakes me up.

Cellphone. I have a Sony Ericsson W810i and you can schedule it for which days of the week you want it to go off. Mine is set for 6:45am Mon-Fri. My alarm of choice is "Sweet Dreams" - Marilyn Manson. I hit snooze and it starts all over in 9 minutes and only will let you snooze for an hour. The last time you hit it, it turns off the alarm.

IndustrialJones

Cellphone.. it's so smart it does it every week day, and not on the weekends. I never have to think about it.

BTW, I love the image for this story.

The Magnificen7

I use my circa 1979 Sony Clock Radio. Hey, why change a good thing? It still works!

I use both really. My alarm clock to wake me up on time, and then my cell goes off when the boss is calling me asking why I'm not at work.

iPhone, as I need to get up at various times and the iPhone lets me save multiple wake-up alarms. It's also easier to adjust times forwards or backwards than a traditional clock.

On a side note for those complaining about the low volume level (not an issue on 3G) try the "Sonar" ring tone. It's louder and more penetrating than most of the other sounds.

ghmlco

I rely on my iPhone (weak alarm shitzer) and I always wake up 1 hour later, so i get to work like 2 hours late.. thanks iphone :(

EL_RIEL

step one: turn off your iphone before sleep.
step 2: Have sex all night.
step 3: Woke up at 3 am, cause a neighbor is having a rock band party.
step 4. Wake up at 6 am, wtf??... you discover your girl turns on your iphone !!! priceless.

I have been using my ipod's alarm over the summer, but during the year my alarm clock does the daily job of getting me up early.

@: I normally wake without mechanical devices (though I have an analog crying baby who has clockwork circadian rythms). For those occassions I need to wake at a different time I use my PDA (non-cell phone Dell Axim).

Fierock

My Sammy Stripe.
Alarm at 6am, loud
Alarm at 7am, louder

YourTechSupport

I use both. I purchased "Awake", a $10 app for my Mac, which starts running one of my iTunes playlists. I also have two alarms on my cell as backup.

richard8a

I use my SqueezeBox, with a cellphone alarm as backup.

CarrerCrytharis

I use an alarm clock but never really use it because my body clock wakes me before the alarm goes off.

I also have the advantage of having children who get up earlier then most.

microe

I use my cellphone, LOL i thought i was one of the few..... 70% of people put cellphone wow :)

I use my alrm clock, and to everyone complaining about it not working during a power outage, check the bottem of your clock. note the 9volt battry slot.

I have not used a regular alarm clock for years. Seems easier just to use my phone now.

I use my alarm clock, but on saturdays its the sprinklers that wake up my neighbors dog that wakes up my neighbors baby. So I get an alarm of rising loudness and irritation starting at 6:30 am. it really starts me off on the right foot.

I haven't used a watch or an alarm clock since I've had a cell phone.

ttech10

My cellphone is my dominant waking-up device, though every now and then I'll use the alarm clock next to my bed just because I feel bad for neglecting it.

Slacker

I have this issue where i always wake up earlier than my alarm, which is set in my phone. By the time it rings im on the way to work already. Even when I need to wake up super early, Im awake before it rings. Is that normal?

I used to only use my cell phone on the road, so that its alarm meant "wake the hell up, client meeting!" But then my old alarm clock broke, the replacement I bought for it proved to be subpar, and I got an iPhone, so I am using that as my alarm clock until I can meet my own admittedly obsessive alarm standards.

mishaps

i wake up m-f, when i hear the shower going approx 6:15 (gf has to get up 1st), on the weekends i get up when the kids come in and jump on the bed, approx 6am

I have a 5 mo. old. What is this "sleep" you speak of?

Thud

A cell phone on vibrate next to your head is the greatest alarm in the world.

beardedkid

Should have added "iPhone" as an option so the people wouldn't have to type it in the comments. Just using calling it a cell phone would diminish their self-worth.

DNABio

Fact: 2.5% of Giz readers are unemployed/retired

Collins1

I use an alarm clock, but I usually wake up before it goes off.

Kupaka

My blackberry, Tune_calypso. The most irriatating song.

wetworker

My boner wakes me up everyday at 5am. Wifey puts me back to sleep.

iHOME FTW

Depends on where I am. I use an alarm clock at home and my phone when I'm traveling.

infmom

iphone for sure, all of the different alarms you can set is a life saver.

mjbyrne

I used to use alarm clocks for waking up until 4 years ago when I got tired of changing batteries on the alarm and the time slip from the actual time. So now I use my Cell phone. It has 3 alarm settings, so I have 2 of them set 20 minutes apart. First one goes off at 0350 AM and the next on goes of at 0410 AM. Snoozing it gives me 5 minutes to roll around and think about what I have planned for the day and then get up once my eyes are open.

ggvrsn

Mars Volta blares out of my cellphone when I need to wake up, works very well. I usually wake up at different times every other day. My cellphone is easier to set up ones, than button smashing a cheap alarm clock each night

taciturnforsale

I use my phone's vibrate and have it go off at 6:45 and 6:50.
I'm a pretty light sleeper so that usually gets me up in time for stuff

One or two alarm clocks, with a cellular phone as a backup.

Convair 990A

Palm m505

blomster

Three cats. Can't beat it.

I use both then wait for my g/f to slap me in the face for not turning them off.

Alarm clock, though I'm looking to replace it. The alarm function on my phone is only used for remembering to clock back in for my lunch breaks.

I use my ipod touch to wake me up. My old one used to do a better job since the speaker was slightly messed up and therefore turned the low note in the "Checkmate" alarm into an obnoxious screechy noise. The one I got as a replacement (the power button had annoyingly died) no longer has this useful feature :(

I use my cellphone when I have to get up at a really early time though. It is much louder, and much more annoying.

wvv

@SpeneyG: I'm the same.

charliew77

I wish Blackberry would figure out that we may not want to activate the alarm clock for 5 or 7 days of the week, and give us the option to just set it for one time action... how hard can that be...?

matiti

Both. Alarm clock first followed by cell with alarm clock snoozing before and after cell.

After a couple of times when I turned off my alarm clock and went back to sleep, my wife now wakes me up. However, she uses both an alarm clock and a cell phone.

Oh god, the craaaappy user interface on my RAZR would take 15 keystrokes to turn on the alarm. So badly designed. So illogically conceived. So useless.

stuartny

Alarm Clock - but when the wife's snoring makes me go downstairs onto the couch, cell phone.

ヨシダさん 25

the iphone is so stupid. if someone sends you a text you wont get the alarm until you clear that text.

Cell phone.

kylenalepa

I exclusively use my iPhone now to wake me up @ 8am on weekdays to the tune of Japanese Cherry Blossom ringtone. It's soothing and starts my day Zen-like :-) Luvet!

rjbuddyboi

Cellphone for sure. Slayer is the only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning.

"RAINING BLOOOOOOODDD! From a lacerated sky!!!!!"

Marl13

My 18 month old son is my alarm clock, same time every morning.

Chumby here too....god I love that thing

I use my biological clock. It somehow knows to nudge me awake before that alarm would go off.

Tamar Weinberg

I use my phone.

strider_mt2k

my mental clock used to work wonders but now days i dont get enough sleep so it puts itself on snooze. other wise i use my cellphone alarm clock or text messages which ever comes first.

nothing like the sound of Marimba in the morning!!

yooper1019

Alarm clock, I like a bit of radio in the morning, something that cell phones are never very good at, or just don't do at all.

I use an alarm clock to force me to turn on my bedside light (6am). Then my mobile alarm will go off (Benny hill theme); I will hit snooze 4 times (8 min intervals).
All in all I get out of bed 30-50 minutes after the initial alarm.
Weekends means internal body clock; 10am to 2pm :D

simmo

@SpeneyG: Same! The trick is putting the alarm clock slightly out of reach, and the phone a good five or six feet from the alarm clock, and have them ring about a minute apart.

PlayerX

haha. Depending on the situation I use all the choices. I use the alarm clock for school, with my cellphone as a backup going off 40 minutes after the clock "just in case." If I don't have an alarm clock, and I need to get up I use my phone or have someone wake me up.

thammuz

I'm also going with both. Alarm clock first, cell phone as a backup.

aquaosx

cellphone and alarmclock FTW!! =D

normally I use an alarm clock. although today I used my phone for the first time... and it worked!

waking up on my own, Wife, then alarm clock because my ipod touch is to weak of a soundand my windows mobile HTC mogul alarm clock is broken on my cell.

Her choices are:

Waking up on her own, Me, then her LG cell phone though.

I use an alarm clock program on an old, brick shaped, toshiba satellite running a corrupted widows 98 since I think '97 since the cd drive broke on me after a week.

Alarm clock, and a cellphone 5 minutes later. But only if it was a really late night. Mostly just alarm clock, and a watch alarm when camping.

photophile

Like "harto" I have my Mac wake me every morning using iTunes while gradually increasing the volume from zero to about 3/4 volume (self-made Automator script actuated via an iCal event). When I'm away my iPhone does the job very well.

I rely on my iPhone and a Sony Ericsson K810i to wake me up every morning, both placed so they're out of reach from my bed.

Always fun jumping out of bed to turn them off, only to realize that one of my leg has fallen alseep. Oh, and I always use the snooze button at least once.

HA! LAME-O! I love option 4. Too bad I go to school and have a job. Wonder how that one would work on my professors....

Ambiguous Blob 2.0

@Naoki - Photoshop Ninja: m4d r33t photoshop skillz0rr you sport there with your avatar, man! Kudos for the creativity... I guess...

I use a deadly combination-at least that's what normal people call it. It starts with the iPhone alarm clock set to the utterly obnoxious "Alarm" tone (the red alert siren).

After 10 minutes, in case I'm not already out of bed, my Samsung LCD TV downstairs turns on to a local news channel at outrageous volume. I'm then forced to race downstairs to save my eardrums and likely those of my neighbors...

aside

My Nintendo DS, the touchscreen makes an easy to reach Snooze button.

hindrim

before the iphone, i used to rely on my nice loud mobiel phone... but now that i only carry around the iphone, its a 50/50 if i actually get up on time... the 3G worse than the older since it seems to like to lower the audio volume by itself...

noservice2001

I use my Sonos system.

Maksimir

@hypnotik_jello:

Strange. I had that ability when I was a kid, but lost it when adulthood and the working world intruded into my life.

Barcard

"I get up whenever my body feels like it." - I hate you people :P

I use my piece of crap treo 750W which works most of the time. I have an alarm clock on order now though because of a bitching I got when I was late to work on a day the boss noticed because he actually wasnt hung over.

venomous_duck41

I've been using my cell phone alarm for years cuz its more reliable, my old apt lost power a lot and my new one will have random power flickers. Plus I hate the buzzer and randomness of the radio anyway so this works out fine for me.

My bunny also likes to wake me up before the alarm even goes off. The little ninja likes to jump on my arm or stomach and then race around the bed till someone gets up and feeds her...and by then there's no point going back to sleep.

ZakuPhantom

My TV is my alarm clock. I just adjust the settings on the TV and Comcast cable box to turn on at the exact same time. I usually wake up to one of the Music Choice channels.

LastCommenter

I have my Samsung BlackJack set to two different alarms and snooze periods. It takes me an hour from the first alarm to get up.

JT555

I have a Capresso CoffeeTeam which wrests me from slumber every morning with the sound of hundreds of coffee beans screaming in agony as they are ground into oblivion.

It has an even better snooze function. 10 minutes later, the smell of freshly ground coffee permeates the entire house. It is impossible to sleep through that.

wezelboy

cellphone alarms are the perfect backup after a night of weekday boozing. although i prefer waking up to a playlist on my pc using this nifty program: [www.geocities.com]

takoattack

At home, a CD player alarm clock with two alarms: one quiet, low energy song to actually wake me, then a loud, high energy song to make me want to get out of bed a little later.

Away, I use my cel. Hotel alarm clocks have let me down one too many times, not to mention hating the beebeebeeeeeep but also not wanting to surf for a decent FM channel that will still be decent the next morning.

-=[ArcSine]=-

I definitely use both.

execrationist

geebus christmas! y'all must not HAVE to be sure you actually wake up, hmm? I've slept through way too many cellphone rings to trust my beloved ipHONE to wake me up. I got one of those old louder than hell monstrosities that makes the dogs one county away howl in displeasure once it starts to wail. but when I have to get up I HAVE to get up. lives depend on it. we stand on a line, and if we're not there, who will prevent the Cubans from . . . wait a moment, sorry, got carried away. Damn that Jack is amazing, ain't he?

cheers
vacation 1 wk, ciao bella

banmojo

Used to use the cellular, but I live in NYC and there are waaaay too many people making random misdials in the middle of the night. Now the phone stays in the living room and I use an alarm clock that only goes off when I want it to.

Lupus_Yonderboy

Have one alarm clock on the shelf above the bed that lets me snooze for about 20 minutes then another alarm clock across the room that is the 'get ur ass up' failsafe.

Duc

Not one, but two alarm clocks: Generic Walgreens clock/radio, and good ol' reliable Clocky. However, I'm going to be adopting a dog very soon, which will probably make both of those obsolete. Nothing wakes you up better than a cold nose to the face begging for breakfast.

Ubik2501

Birds

JJ910

I used to use my cell phone until I "upgraded" my SE K750 to a T-Mo Wing...F'in Microsoft Mobile sucks @$$

D-Rock78

I set my stereo to blast Jimi singing " 'scuse me while i kiss the sky" and the following riff to wake me up in the morning a little jarring but overall keeps me ontime to work.

VideoVampire

My wife uses an alarm clock, I use my bberry. So we inevitably set them to go off every 10 minutes within 5 minutes of each other, and spend about an hour every morning punching our respective devices and swearing in 5 minute intervals.
I'm sure to a sober person it would be hilarious. Sometimes her alarm clock goes off, I punch the blackberry, etc.

med

OK, so apparently I'm the only person who uses my frickin' wristwatch all the time?

It has 5 alarms and a snooze alarm feature, and it's synched to an atomic clock, so why not?

mathew

alarm clock is great, but cellphone works the same. And it's one less device to plug in if use a cellphone, so byebye alarm clock

sega8800

Watch

Blakamin

I actually use both... :P
first the Alarm Clock Radio on a very very very low volume, which still wakes me instantly somehow.
than, about 10 minutes later, my cellphone makes hell break loose, so I really get up and about.

(I enjoy my easing out of bed time ;)

zyberteq

I use an alarm clock. I can't use a phone only because I'm forgetful and will leave somewhere that is out of hearing range. I just leave it on the classical music station so I don't get an earful of unfriendly music. I have to replace the alarm clock soon though. It's a couple years old, and it automatically changes for DST; a setting that cannot be turned off. So now I get to wake up an hour early and an hour late on the wrong days of the year..LOL.

pammylz

I use my cellphone however I do the "push" tactic where from 5:15 till 6:00 I snooze.

basicvisual

I use a very elaborate series of alarms... First, my cell phone gently buzzes and vibrates on nightstand. Snooze. Then the louder more annoying alarm clock goes off about 15 mins later. Snooze. Then the girlfriend hits me in the back of the head with the cell phone that's been going off for about an hour. Late for work. Everyday. Seriously, if someone would invent an alarm clock system that releases a rabid badger into the room and shoots bees at my face. Maybe then, I'd wake up on time.

pop-pop-pixel

the iphone has a good alarm system so i use that

rudez90

Bad Poll. There should have been an option for both cell phone and alarm clock. I go cell phone first, then radio on the alarm, then mean BAHH BAHH BAHH on the alarm.

SuvarnaprabhaCestrinus

First, my alarm clock goes off (snooze). One minute later, my cell phone goes off. Instantaneously, I get kicked in the face by my wife.

Voila! Awake!

MeoW_MeoW

Automator on my iMac turns it on at 7:47 and downloads my rss feeds at the same time playing my itunes playlist PsyTrance Wakeup and scrolling my feeds on my screensaver. Then at 8:15 it shuts off my iMac. If or when the iPhone has an offline newsreader or Google Gears is up and running, I'll sync the feeds to the reader on my iPhone.

arthurnyc

I use both... The phone goes off at 0800 every day to get me to take a med (don't ask). The alarm goes off when ever, depending on the work schedule.

Thing is, about half the time, I wake before any of it goes off. The other half, I'm beating the snooze button like a red-head step-child.

hnkelley

I use my cellphone, a Nokia 6110 Navigtor, it has an increasing volume that gets loud as hell if I don't stop it, and if I don't it snoozes for 5 minutes and goes off again. I have 3 alarms with 30 minutes between them, each workday (none in the weekends, where I sleep to I wake up by myself). Never owned an alarm clock, but when I went to school I programmed my HP48sx calculator (which could run programs at given times, as alarms) to act as a remote to turn on my stereo and fade in the music.

peder

@mcjake: Hahaha.. Sounds about the same as me...

I use the good old alarm clock. And I have it sitting on the other side of the room so I have to wonder over and turn it off.(this way I have to get out of bed,walk, and get my blood flowing.)

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