Toms View of the World

When faced with the chore of dragging yourself out of bed, into the shower and then off to work - the “snooze” button on the alarm clock can be a very tempting feature… just another 5 minutes… then another…

Now, those clever folks at MIT have a solution - the self-hiding alarm clock.

The first time it goes off, it’s sitting on your bedside table. If you hit the snooze button, it goes and hides somewhere in the room before ringing again - then forcing you to get out of bed and go and find it to switch it off…

I think that if this is ever produced as a commercial product, it could do very well!

See this story on CNN for the details.