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An Even Better Procrastinator’s Clock

9 July 2008 at 8:25 am Peter G. Klein Leave a comment

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I blogged previously on an alarm clock designed for procrastinators and people with time-inconsistent preferences. It runs up to 15 minutes fast but in a random pattern so you don’t know how fast it really is. Here’s an even better clock: if you don’t wake up it starts dialing numbers randomly chosen from your phone’s contact list, annoying the living s__ t out of your friends until you turn it off. As Engadget notes, this is brilliance — “pure, sadistic, barbarous brilliance.”

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