Alarmclock puzzle

[Mo Abrahams]

See, that is the kind of innovation that can only come from opensource!
I desperately want that now!

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 18:01 +0200, Arne Kristian Jansen wrote:
> Or you could use the accelerometer to "wind"up the clock/snooze. Just
> shake it two times to snooze for 1 min more or something like it. And
> after each snooze you have to shake more and more to get the same
> snoozetime, i.e. for the second snooze you'd have to shake say four
> times to add one minute.
> 
> 
> - Arne Kristian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2008/5/13 Steven ** <montgoss+openmokocommunity at gmail.com>:
>         I have a similar problem, but came up with a slightly
>         different
>         approach.  I tend to snooze too much, so mine focuses on the
>         snooze
>         button.
>         
>         You'd start with 1 big snooze button that snoozes for x
>         minutes.
>         After x minutes, alarm sounds again, but there are now two or
>         three
>         buttons. Maybe you have to hit them in a particular order.
>         Maybe pick
>         2 that are the right color. Snoozes for another x minutes.
>         Next, has a screen with 9 buttons (big enough to use with
>         fingers).
>         The buttons flash (maybe play a sound) in a pattern. You have
>         to
>         repeat the pattern to snooze again.
>         Etc
>         
>         Have snooze time configurable. User enters comma-separated
>         list. Last
>         number in list is repeated. Ie "10,9,5"
>         
>         What do you think?
>         
>         -Steven
>         
>         
>         On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Alexander Frøyseth
>         <alexander.froyseth at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > Hello again
>         >  I just have an idea for an nice addon or software (call it
>         what you want)
>         > to the alarmclock
>         >  Okey, let me tell a little story from real life.
>         >  Every day when I go to school, I have to wake up, and now I
>         have 2
>         > alarmclocks, but still I manage to oversleep. Soo what I was
>         thinking about
>         > was that I have to solve a puzzle to turn the alarmclock
>         off, and not just
>         > push a button. One possibility is a 4 bits jigsaw puzzle
>         like this:
>         >
>         >
>         http://www.bimbambanana.com/index.php?p=Puzzle-alarm-clock-cool-gadgets&side=visProd&prod_id=21
>         >  another, and perhaps an more easy to make is that the
>         screen shows fours
>         > digits that you have to click in right order to turn it off.
>         Perhaps like an
>         > antibot test on websites.
>         >
>         >  I am more as an web programmer, so I isent so good to
>         program software.
>         >
>         >  NOTE: You have to have the choice to turn this on and off
>         when you sets the
>         > clock
>         >  Hope that someone think this is a good idea, and tries to
>         program one.
>         >
>         >  Alexander Frøyseth
>         >
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