alarm clock

[celticdragonfly]

Okay, people, help me out here, I'm trying to find a product to reduce marital stress.... yes, a better alarm clock for selenite

Somewhere out there has to be an alarm clock designed to wake up somebody who's in proximity of other people who don't need to be woken. Not a quiet alarm clock - he sleeps right through even loud ones. I'm picturing something like a velcro-around-the-ankle vibrating alarm clock.[1] I hope I'm not inventing this. You'd think that, oh, say a crowded culture like the Japanese would have need of this, wouldn't you? Or college students?

I've been searching online, just poked through Sharper Image, haven't found it.

[1] cattle-prod attachment optional for the really tough cases.

Comments

[castiron.livejournal.com]

What about alarm clocks designed for hearing-impaired folks? I suspect many of those work using bright lights, but perhaps one of those might have a function that'd work?

(Heck, you could almost jury-rig this with a vibrating pager and some velcro; you'd just need some automated way to call the pager at the right time.)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Aha, hearing impaired, that's the search term I needed. Hunting about right now. My goodness, bed shaking clocks. That'd wake Maggie, too, though. Oooh, Sonic Boom clock! He shoulda had that back in his bachelor, living alone days. Wow. I shall continue to poke around. Having to wake HIM without driving me or the kids nuts is a tough constraint. Thanks for the help.

alarm clocks

[p-o-u-n-c-e-r.livejournal.com]

In a Travis McGee novel, (which one, I forget) Trav has a wrist watch with an "alarm" that extrudes a prod from the back of the watch into the wearer's arm. The prod keeps extending, the pressure therefore increases, and the discomfort intensifies, until the alarm is turned off and a spring pulls the prod back into the watch.

Trav also has a Rolls Royce pickup truck ... a figment of John McDonald's imagination, so the watch may be as well.
(And given a magical choice of timepieces from the novels of John McDonald, I'd give up on Travis McGee's wristwatch for the eponymous pocketwatch from _The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything_.)

Okay, so fictional solutions aside, I have a work-around notion:

Get a pager. A telephone message pager may have clock functions, or you might have to call a service to telephone the pager number at a set time in the mornings. But the pager can be set to either buzz quietly or vibrate, and it can be clipped to a pillow or corner of the sheets where only one person may notice. (It's also entertaining to put a pager, set to vibrate, on a smooth wooden tabletop. It races around in little circles until it drops over the edge, and the table buzzes like a giant cricket." )

A vibrating pager taken to bed may have other entertaining applications I'm unwilling to elaborate upon...