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Sfera Retracting Alarm Clock

02.19.sfera.jpg Mounted on the ceiling, this little bugger will eventually get you out of bed. The Sfera Retracting Alarm Clock is an innocent-enough-looking white sphere that hangs above your bed. But when the "alarm" goes off, well, then it's a different story...

 
 

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When the alarm goes off, the Sfera lowers to hover just above your head and it begins to glow. To active the "sleep" button, you hit it and it retracts a bit toward the ceiling. This continues to happen until it retracts so high that when it goes off, you must stand up to reach it. Then you're up. We don't have that difficult a time getting out of bed, but if you do, the Sfera design is less offensive than the rolling and flying varieties out there.

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I'd smack that thing so hard it would become my neighbor's problem!

posted by AlmostAD on 2008-02-19 12:41:14
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AlmostAD you made my day!

posted by priscilla on 2008-02-19 12:48:42
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My upstairs neighbors (who already left me a note about hitting the Snooze alarm too many times) would really love for me to have this! Plus -- the play possibilities for the cats!!

posted by peardown on 2008-02-19 12:57:07
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love this....once again not available for purchase, only as a prototype! now all other alarm clocks just won't do. love the idea of no having to waste precious bedside table space on the alarm.

posted by susie b on 2008-02-19 13:18:05
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Mounting anything on the ceiling in NYC apts. is a bitch and usually requires a professional. So why on earth would someone even consider mounting an ALARM CLOCK on the ceiling. HAHAHAHAHA.

posted by anne on 2008-02-19 13:24:09
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is there a maximum ceiling height on this thing?

i know many of us have vaulted ceilings...wondering if the designers accounted for that...

posted by boomtown! on 2008-02-19 13:38:13
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Mine's across the room, anyway. I have to get up to turn it off. I've got both alarms set on it (it's a pretty standard radio/alarm clock), 7 minutes apart. I get up to turn the first one off, then crawl back into bed with the light on and the (other) radio on and the cats bothering me. It's much easier, then, to really get up by the time the second alarm goes off.

posted by Joan A. on 2008-02-19 13:38:39
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I love the idea, but they'd better come up with a version that makes sound. Waking up to a glow? Not me. They could put a 500w halogen in that thing and I still wouldn't wake up unless it was close enough that I felt the heat.

posted by nrKist on 2008-02-19 14:48:18
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Does anyone else imagine themselves forgetting it is there when they sit up and smacking their head on it? Maybe that's just me.

posted by JohnnySlimane on 2008-02-19 20:37:01
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