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Plug Your Favourite Appliance Into The Alternative Alarm Clock For A Bespoke Wake-Up Call

Which appliance would you rather be woken up by? The smell of fresh coffee? Bacon sizzling fragrantly? A blaring TV? All of these could be possible, with the Alternative Alarm Clock. It’s just a pity we can’t buy Ki Hyun Kim’s university project – yet.

Designed for the Royal College of Art graduate’s project, the alarm clock has been combined with a two-socket extension lead for plugging appliances into. While only a coffee maker, lamp, radio and fan seem to be supported now, I’m sure Kim is hard at work planning a donut machine for the US market.

View the video of the alarm clock over at Dezeen.

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    Danny

    Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    I bought one of these in 1981 to run my stereo system as an alarm clock. I’ve been using it ever since. What’s new about this? (OK, it’s plastic rather than metal, and the control switch seems to be a lot harder to manipulate when you’re half asleep).

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    Kent

    Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM

    I cant wait until this is somehow used to burn some idiots house down.

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    Lawrence

    Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 8:45 PM

    Isn’t this just like any electronic timer you can get at bunnings?

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