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Clever Clocky Design Combats OversleepingClocky, a shag carpeting covered digital clock on two wheels, jumps from the bedside table to find a hiding spot each time the snooze bar is pressed.
A few minutes later, when the alarm sounds for a second time, the sleeper must first find the clock before he or she can press snooze again.
Its designed to force people up and out of bed, making them less likely to keep snoozing.
Nanda created Clocky last semester in an industrial design class, but news of her invention started to spread just recently.
After a blogger linked to Nanda's site, Clocky, and its creator, suddenly became media darlings.
Clocky is scheduled to make an appearance on "Good Morning America" next week and has been profiled in dozens of newspapers across the country.
"People from all over the place are offering to beta-test it," said Nanda, who is currently working on patenting Clocky.
"Clocky is representing a story people understand," said Principal Research Scientist Michael Bove of the Media Lab.
Bove is Nanda's advisor and the director of the CELab, the Media Lab's consumer electronics research program, whose goal is to create "simple, ubiquitous, easy- and delightful-to-use devices."
Bove has been overwhelmed by the amount of attention bestowed on Clocky so quickly. "I can't recall another project that went from zero to inf
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