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Two years ago the shag hit the floor. This time it wasn't carpeting but rather an alarm clock with wheels that ran away from the user. Clocky was developed by MIT student Gauri Nanda. In December we heard that the prototype had moved from the Alpha to Beta version and finally into production. Clocky was in commercial production with a promise that the runaway alarm clock would make it off the nightstand of the tech-loving... more ›

A year and a half ago we first heard about Clocky. It's an alarm clock that would run from you as soon as you hit the snooze. The brilliant idea came from the MIT Media Lab as a project of one of their students. A prototype made the way around the internet in pictures. The shag carpeted festooned version of the clock was a theoretical hit – commercial production was only a promise and a... more ›

Those genius engineers over at MIT have developed a gizmo that forces you to find it after the first tapping of the snooze button. The alarm clock, with its cutesy handle Clocky, has wheels and plush carpet padding. When you hit the snooze button Clocky travels, it wheels itself to a new location where you’ll have to find it rather than just extending your arm once again to hit that magic button. Bostonist thinks this... more ›