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Five more minutes? New clock answers resounding ‘no’


By Ted Shaffrey – There is no snooze button. If you unplug it, a battery takes over. As wake-up time approaches, you cannot reset the alarm time. Once it goes off, to stop it you must get out of bed, go into the kitchen or bathroom, and punch the day’s date into a telephone-style keypad. That’s the only way to stop the loud ‘ding-ding’.

It was invented by Paul Sammut, a 25-year-old engineer who lives in Hoboken. He started working on the gadget because he was finding it hard to get up and make it to work on time after college. more> http://tinyurl.com/bovr7z4