14 DAY TRIAL // If you though gadgets are all about metal-shiny looks or sharp technology, you were wrong. And here is something to prove you otherwise. "Killing time" devices! Isn't that what you've always wanted? Alarm clocks are usually devices that can be silenced only if you get up and push "ze" button. Right! Well, London based designer and researcher Roger Ibars' alarm clock takes a different twist as it can be turned off by a GUN. Why knock the clock, just shoot the clock using a retro gaming light gun (sorry, it doesn't come with bullets or gunpowder). Anyway, you wouldn't want time pieces displacing all over your room. Weird phenomena could take place. Take wormholes for example. Why not? Or devastating sound waves emitted by a crazy wife.
Shooting the alarm clock in different angles will trigger different functions such as setting the time and alarms. Roger Ibars, the man behind this project, equipped the gun with 5 tilt sensors, arranged at different angles on a small circuit band. A cable tethers the gun to the clock and carries your tilt and trigger signals to the clock's time and alarm clock and alarm control button contacts. Apparently, it's still in the project phase. The concept is still waiting for somebody with the technical knowledge to bring it to the masses. Anyway, a Nintendo light-gun that controls a classic Sonny cube-shaped alarm-clock already appeared on eBay (designed by the same Rogers Ibars). A simple gun-alarm-clock device has been featured in the magazine Artinvestor in December 2005.
Well, at least you can still use Clocky, MIT's Media Lab weird clock! You know... the clock with wheels that once its alarm is turned off rolls off the table to another part of the room, bumping mindlessly into objects on the floor until it eventually finds a spot to rest. Enough already! Where's that gun?