I have wanted an alarm clock with following features
-loud as hell, adjustable to the particular circle of hell :)
-reliable as the sun.
-portable, programmable easily.-can't be lost.
So I bought an app for the MAC - I paid up for it, $35 as I recall, because I wanted something that worked. And what did I get? A f---ing polite mosquito!
Anything anyone?
Tanks in advance JB
If you find something, let me know. Without my hearing aids, sleeping on the right side (my good ear :-), it takes a godly noise to wake me. ...Jim Thompson
"Portable" and "can't be lost" are mutually exclusive.
If you're willing to use a computer, every current OS has a "do this at this time" feature built into it somewhere. Have "this" be "play a .WAV/.MP3/whatever" and turn the speakers up loud before you go to bed.
I have sometimes seen alarm clocks that are claimed to be extremely loud sold at truck stops, of all places. Truckers sometimes need to wake up at odd hours and I guess some of them sleep very heavily. I think I've seen this one at a truck stop before:
You can also get alarm clocks that come with a "bed shaker", which is a little hockey-puck thing you put in/under the bed. When the sound alarm goes off, the bed shaker vibrates as well. An example:
Stores that cater to deaf people also have bed-shaker and bright-light alarm clocks.
Some "kitchen" clock-radios have a 110 V outlet that can be switched on at a certain time. You could plug whatever light or noisemaker you want into that. Not portable and vulnerable to power outages, though.
Matt Roberds
How about a rooster - it includes all software and hardware and takes no power from the electrical grid. Works for scratch.
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