A Shocking Way to Wake Up!

Aha! As usual, your timing is impeccable. Why, just this very moment, a new tray of scrumptili...icious virtual treats appeared out of my virtual oven. Help yourself and pour a mug of coffee while you're about it, eh! Say...do you ever have trouble getting out of bed in the morning? Well here's a new invention for you...

Tired of waking up very late and missing his university lectures, Indian student Sankalp Sinha decided to do something about his problem – he invented a special alarm clock that “rewards” the owner with an electric shock if he tries to press the snooze button.

19-year-old Sankalp Sinha came up with the idea for his shocking alarm clock a couple of years ago, when he was having trouble getting up in the morning to attend university classes. He had developed a habit of hitting the snooze button and going back to sleep, so he started thinking about a solution that would force him out of bed.

A student of automobile engineering at Sharda University in Uttar Pradesh, India, Sinha came up with an idea for an alarm clock that administers a small electric shock via the very popular snooze button. “The shock it administers is harmless but is enough to energize you”, the young inventor says, adding that users will be able to adjust how strong the electric shock they get is.

He added that the power of his Good Morning Sing N Shock clock will be a fraction of the 50,000 volts delivered by the standard Taser gun. Pretty weak, but you want the thing to wake you up, not put you to sleep, right?

Good idea? Maybe for some people. Another idea is to turn up the volume and put the alarm clock on the other side of the room instead of beside your bed, eh.

And while the old brain is churning, why not wire the clock to your electric blanket? A bit too much? Yeah...perhaps, although a couple of the teachers I had in my crew in Thailand could have used it!

See ya, eh!

Bob