Gadgets
New Laser Alarm Clock Features Normal, Hard Modes
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 1:45 PM on October 10, 2008
Apparently the laser alarm clock idea, where you stop your clock's incessant ringing by shooting a bullseye with a laser gun, was popular enough to warrant a second coming. Bandai will be releasing its new version, titled Gun O' Clock, on November 15th in Japan. Gun O'Clock lacks the little man from the original, but features two wake-up modes: Normal and Hard. Normal mode means you only have to hit the target once to put the clock on snooze. With Hard mode, you'll have to hit it five times. Is that frustrating or secret agent awesome? I can't really tell. [Bandai via Geek Alerts]

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ab3
Posted 3:19 PM 10/10/08
@zchen - lawlaw beklog oO: COTD!! and that's totally true btw
ab3
ab3
Posted 3:19 PM 10/10/08
Yea knowing the way i wake up, this clock will end up squashed on the wall or through the window.
ab3
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 3:17 PM 10/10/08
This clock would be too close to my bed to be effective..
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Felix26591
Posted 3:06 PM 10/10/08
Yeah true but, i don't see it ending really well for the alarm clock. Someday some angry american or just any random guy is gonna wake up grab the wrong gun and shoot the hell out of the clock.
Felix26591
zchen - lawlaw beklog oO
Posted 3:06 PM 10/10/08
hit it 5 times!!!!!.. crap!!...
i can barely pee in the toilet after snoozing for 1 hr.. :(
zchen - lawlaw beklog oO
purple-pillows
Posted 3:06 PM 10/10/08
this is awesome... its prepares you for the zombie virus... when you will have to fire a gun the second you wake uo
purple-pillows
hippiekiller16
Posted 3:05 PM 10/10/08
I like it...i always hit the alarm and go to back to sleep...this poses a challenge...its like putting a rubics cube on the alarm....cause by the time you hit it with the laser 5 times your gonna be awake
hippiekiller16
alohrey
Posted 2:53 PM 10/10/08
Talk about waking up in a bad mood every single day
~Adam
[www.hdupdate.com]
alohrey
SamhitaJibber
Posted 3:36 PM 10/10/08
Question is....is it Sarah Palin approved?
SamhitaJibber
aaj111
Posted 3:28 PM 10/10/08
Secret Agent Awesome, for sure.
aaj111
Valicious
Posted 3:27 PM 10/10/08
[gizmodo.com] There I said it:Over snooze and the aim-bot with a sniper rifle which kills pedestrians will prove not just ones punctuality which means squat but also his morality.
Valicious
Valicious
Posted 3:46 PM 10/10/08
@purple-pillows: Your wisdom and sanity will all vanish it's promised , just a question of time.
Valicious
skeksis
Posted 4:09 PM 10/10/08
What, no moving target? They need to combine this with the alarm clock that takes off and hides when it goes off.
skeksis
smartboydan hates college
Posted 4:41 PM 10/10/08
@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: You may be amazed at just how much I did not need to know that.
smartboydan hates college
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 4:28 PM 10/10/08
My dog starts emitting a horrific odor at about 630am. If the smell itself isn't enough to get a person up (although they'd have to be seriously sensory deficient), then the though of cleaning up the forthcoming mess from the carpet sure as heck would.
Take that new laser alarm clock!
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 4:58 PM 10/10/08
@smartboydan hates college: It's an alarm clock au naturalé
Go green.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
mhlaxp
Posted 4:44 PM 10/10/08
I think I'll buy two, John Woo style. I actually have a really hard time getting up so maybe I should but a bunch and put them around my apartment so that I have to run and gun my way to the shower.
mhlaxp
510DustMite
Posted 5:16 PM 10/10/08
favorite quote from the google-translated site:
"In addition, the console, both dedicated to cancer, and white is simple and stylish design, and in the bedroom is the perfect adult."
perfect translation? I think so...
510DustMite
CarbonFalcon
Posted 5:09 PM 10/10/08
@mhlaxp:
So true. I have a hard time getting up too and I must say that one alarm clock that takes coordination to turn off beats 2-4 regular alarm clocks scattered throughout the room.
CarbonFalcon
zchen - lawlaw beklog oO
Posted 5:35 PM 10/10/08
@510DustMite:
hmmm... dedicated to cancer + perfect adult + bedroom...
so this is just like...
having a smoke after a great sex..
zchen - lawlaw beklog oO
laxman15
Posted 6:14 PM 10/10/08
after years of deliberation...I have come up with an ingenious solution to the alarm problem. set iphone alarm to "alarm" sound (like a nuclear bomb alert or something), set iphone far away from bed at other end of room; when it rings, you get up and turn it off and voila, your out of bed! genius!
laxman15
michaelleung
Posted 6:58 PM 10/10/08
@zchen - lawlaw beklog oO: I assume that's a stretch, isn't it?
michaelleung
net_addict
Posted 9:45 PM 10/10/08
@laxman15:
I have been known to get up from bed, walk to the other side of the room, turn off three separate alarms at staggered times, and go back to sleep, without knowing it. (my roommate videotaped me...it's probably on youtube somewhere by now for all i know)
net_addict
GadgetPlay
Posted 10:14 PM 10/10/08
@SamhitaJibber: Put a picture of the Obamanation on it and it will be. Gimme two.
GadgetPlay
Roast Beef
Posted 11:16 PM 10/10/08
@net_addict: Yup, me too. I've even sat the alarm in a different room. It worked for about a month or so until the sound was absorbed into my dreams.
What would be perfect is an alarm clock that releases the refreshing scent of bacon 'n eggs
Roast Beef
EricAlder
Posted 12:26 AM 11/10/08
Baseball bat = 5 hits = alarm off.
EricAlder
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 12:59 AM 11/10/08
It's not Gun O'Clock. It's Beer O'Clock. Always Beer O'Clock.
OMG! Ponies!
Bueller
Posted 5:10 AM 11/10/08
@OMG! Ponies!: Beer:30. Can't wait till Beer:30 today.
Bueller
Evil J
Posted 9:38 AM 11/10/08
@Roast Beef:
Third one clocking in (ha, get it?).
Usually I have an old fashioned dual-bell alarm clock that's all the way across my bedroom, my cell phone that I put just out of arm's reach, and sometimes the TV set to turn on.
All that, and my wife usually is the one who wakes me up by lying to me and telling me I'm already 5 minutes late for work.
Evil J
Evil J
Posted 9:35 AM 11/10/08
This sounds like a great idea with the exception that I already have a loaded .45 pistol on my nightstand (long story)...
I can just imagine setting this thing on hard mode, and, half asleep, BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM!
Evil J
Evil J
Posted 10:52 AM 11/10/08
I found a site advertising this... the Flash ad is worth watching...
[www.strapya-world.com]
Evil J