The Alarm Clock That Does All the Thinking

[Guest]

Pretty soon sleepyheads will be hearing "I'm sorry [owner name]. I'm afraid I can't do that."

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[stopthe_bomb]

Where is the snooze!

 

[dan-fish]

what about my android?!

 

[Marco925]

No Youtube Video to see it in action?

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]stopthe_bomb[/nom]Where is the snooze![/citation]
Baseball bat, apparently.

 

[sliem]

One of those black buttons might be snooze, let's see:
From left to right:
Button 1 -- Power
Button 2 -- Volume
Button 3 -- Snooze
Button 4 -- Control Your Life

 

[michaelzehr]

If it can wake up my son and get him dressed while I hit "snooze" I'll buy it!

But this is pretty cool. Might be nice to have a text to voice to read off the appointments too. "You have a call with MegaCorp at 9am and you're reviewing the ROI figures with John at 2pm. Don't forget tonight is your son's karate. I've started the coffee maker, and you should buy more milk on the way home."

The amazing thing is that this isn't all that much science fiction any more. As the data that represents our lives (calendars, etc.) becomes more structured, and with common APIs, you can come pretty close to this with a few rules without having to build enough AI to open an appointment book and read the handwriting.

 

[Parsian]

descend idea but its not reliable because internet connections are not stable...

 

[andybird123]

[citation][nom]michaelzehr[/nom]If it can wake up my son and get him dressed while I hit "snooze" I'll buy it!But this is pretty cool. [/citation]

just wire up any alarm clock "alarm" output to a relay that switches on the electric fence wire running through his bed sheets and viola, that'll get the little ah heck out of bed, easy

 

[ksampanna]

Maybe Apple'l buy it, add a Mac os, a wifi for App Store, call it iClock & price it @ $2000

 

[cablechewer]

Great - if only it would schedule someone to shovel the driveway in the winter so I don't have to get up early and take care of it...

 

[JohnnyLucky]

The cabinet may not look like much but I'd say the university students did pretty good.

 

[DXRick]

I stopped using my alarm clock years ago. All the damn thing ever did was wake me up.

 

[dxwarlock]

[citation][nom]DXRick[/nom]I stopped using my alarm clock years ago. All the damn thing ever did was wake me up.[/citation]
how dare you steal my DX! 😛
first person I've seen with the old BBS tag of DX other than me.

 

[Guest]

@Marco925 - http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvsD_Tb4c0Q
@Parsian - It will fall back to locally set alarms if the network goes down, worst case you get up early.
@stopthe_bomb - Snooze is button 3 actually, when you see the UI lit up, there's tabs indicating button functions
- Eric (DPAC designer)

 

[mr_tuel]

I could use something like that...

 

[mr_tuel]

looks kinda like a lectern too

 

[Guest]

just creat an app for that.....er

 

[nukemaster]

Now all its needs is the ability to play music at night then hit max volume to get you out of bed in the morning.

The switching on and off lights is a nice touch that is nice and easy to build with a relay.

Maybe having the LCD turn down real low automatically at night would also be good. Even if it is just a switch(one touch VS going through the menus.) you hit before bed.

and ohh yeah. Bigger speakers.

Very cool idea.

 

[jdragyn]

[citation][nom]stopthe_bomb[/nom]Where is the snooze![/citation]
"I'm sorry stopthe_bomb. I'm afraid I can't do that."