Alarmclock puzzle

Steven ** montgoss+openmokocommunity at gmail.com
Tue May 13 16:02:37 CEST 2008


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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