Clocky

Man this thing is ugly. But it might be one of the best things for me to buy when it comes out on the market.

Anyone else have trouble getting out of bed in the morning? Are you like me and hit the snooze button several times until you have like 10 minutes to get ready and drive to work? I know myself so well, that I even set my alarm 1 hour ahead just to allow myself to snooze.

Apparently, the best thing to do is to not hit the snooze button and just get up and be active. Hitting the snooze button does not effectively stimulate the "wake up neuron" and all it does is reinforce the same pattern of sleeping in and then finally rushing in the morning to get to work/school.

A student from MIT invented this clock named "Clocky". What it does is when the alarm goes off, it rolls off and runs around and then tries to hide. This gets you active in the morning trying to chase it, effectively stimulating your wake up neuron.

For now, I'll just concentrate on getting right out of bed when the alarm hits. I think I'll also wait for a better looking version of Clocky to come out. Full article on Clocky here.