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Buy cheap alarm clock from Amazon $5 - $10. Put it far from your bed so you have to walk over to it to turn it off. I love the look of the Ramos, especially th

Buy cheap alarm clock from Amazon $5 - $10. Put it far from your bed so you have to walk over to it to turn it off. I love the look of the Ramos, especially the nixie tubes but I just don't see much of an improvement over placing the alarm clock on the other side of the room.

todd3834 15y ago
If you really want to get crazy, buy 3 or more cheap alarm clocks. Place each one in a different room and freak yourself out when you wake up each morning as your rush to each room to turn off the alarms. ;-)
- pavel_lishin 15y ago
  I already have that installed in the form of two roommates who have annoying alarm clocks.
  - freehunter 15y ago
    When I was living in the dorms at school, I had a nasty habit of turning off my roommate's alarm and going back to sleep.
jasontsui 15y ago
Full disclosure - I helped with the project but I'm also one of those people who on some days CANT get out of bed. You can put the panel pretty far. If your bathroom is a hallway away, this might make the difference. You cant put a regular alarm that far, you wouldnt hear it. For me, physically getting up isn't enough because you can do that half asleep. Thats where having to punch in the date helps, I think this part fires a few more synapses and gets the engine running. It certainly solved it for me.
gsa 15y ago
Or get an alarm clock which has no snooze :) Seriously, it helps. For years now, my alarm has been this simple function in my zshrc: function alarm() { sleep $1 && mplayer /path/to/mp3 -loop 0 } It's much harder to snooze this way (unlock screen, switch to terminal, exit mplayer, enter new duration).
- paulsammut 15y ago
  You can then just turn of it off and go right back to bed. At least that what I would do
  - calloc 15y ago
    You'd be surprised how fast that alarm clock would stop working ... I'd just forget to plug it in at night :P
gallamine 15y ago
Pro tip: Get a outlet timer and put a bright lamp on it. The lights in my bedroom click on at the same time each morning and make it much nicer to wake up. Edit: I use this one: http://amzn.com/B000NBCEM8 http://amzn.com/B000NBCEM8
- joe42 15y ago
  I have one of the Philips wake-up lights[0] which gradually brightens its lamp over 30 minutes before playing some optional bird-chirping. The gradual light-up feature gives it an edge over the sharp turn-on of a lamp plugged into a timer, but I'm often lying on my side with my back to the lamp, in which case the bird-chirping wakes me instead of the light. I'm thinking of running a cord from the Philips's bulb socket to the bulb in a floor lamp which I can position above my head (instead of to one side, like the Philips). [0] http://amzn.com/B003XN4RIC http://amzn.com/B003XN4RIC
  - duths 15y ago
    I've recently connected my bedside lights (on each side of my bed) to a dimmable X10 socket. Using the programmable controller, they gradually brighten over 20 mins when all lights in the room turn on and my alarm goes off. Felt it was more fun, less intrusive, and as cheap (ish) to roll my own solution. It's a long way from the old days of a radio on full-volume static or alarm clock thrown under the middle of my bed!
- icebraining 15y ago
  Wouldn't work for me. Sunlight does, but unfortunately I can't set the time for sunrise ;)

todd3834 15y ago

If you really want to get crazy, buy 3 or more cheap alarm clocks. Place each one in a different room and freak yourself out when you wake up each morning as your rush to each room to turn off the alarms. ;-)

pavel_lishin 15y ago
I already have that installed in the form of two roommates who have annoying alarm clocks.
- freehunter 15y ago
  When I was living in the dorms at school, I had a nasty habit of turning off my roommate's alarm and going back to sleep.

jasontsui 15y ago

Full disclosure - I helped with the project but I'm also one of those people who on some days CANT get out of bed. You can put the panel pretty far. If your bathroom is a hallway away, this might make the difference. You cant put a regular alarm that far, you wouldnt hear it. For me, physically getting up isn't enough because you can do that half asleep. Thats where having to punch in the date helps, I think this part fires a few more synapses and gets the engine running. It certainly solved it for me.

gsa 15y ago

Or get an alarm clock which has no snooze :) Seriously, it helps. For years now, my alarm has been this simple function in my zshrc: function alarm() { sleep $1 && mplayer /path/to/mp3 -loop 0 } It's much harder to snooze this way (unlock screen, switch to terminal, exit mplayer, enter new duration).

paulsammut 15y ago
You can then just turn of it off and go right back to bed. At least that what I would do
- calloc 15y ago
  You'd be surprised how fast that alarm clock would stop working ... I'd just forget to plug it in at night :P

gallamine 15y ago

Pro tip: Get a outlet timer and put a bright lamp on it. The lights in my bedroom click on at the same time each morning and make it much nicer to wake up. Edit: I use this one: http://amzn.com/B000NBCEM8 http://amzn.com/B000NBCEM8

joe42 15y ago
I have one of the Philips wake-up lights[0] which gradually brightens its lamp over 30 minutes before playing some optional bird-chirping. The gradual light-up feature gives it an edge over the sharp turn-on of a lamp plugged into a timer, but I'm often lying on my side with my back to the lamp, in which case the bird-chirping wakes me instead of the light. I'm thinking of running a cord from the Philips's bulb socket to the bulb in a floor lamp which I can position above my head (instead of to one side, like the Philips). [0] http://amzn.com/B003XN4RIC http://amzn.com/B003XN4RIC
- duths 15y ago
  I've recently connected my bedside lights (on each side of my bed) to a dimmable X10 socket. Using the programmable controller, they gradually brighten over 20 mins when all lights in the room turn on and my alarm goes off. Felt it was more fun, less intrusive, and as cheap (ish) to roll my own solution. It's a long way from the old days of a radio on full-volume static or alarm clock thrown under the middle of my bed!
icebraining 15y ago
Wouldn't work for me. Sunlight does, but unfortunately I can't set the time for sunrise ;)