And there’s no need to be afraid in the words of the Band Aid song. But there’s still a need to get out of bed. We have all endeavoured to find clocks and alarm clocks as Christmas gifts that not only tell the time but also have a distinctly fun, cool or downright odd appeal. It could be for your indolent teen who appears to regard the middle of the afternoon as the “morning” or maybe for the breadwinner in your household as a reminder to get their sorry selves out into the world of commerce and bring home the bacon!
These stocking fillers can be life savers in the New Year, making sure you don’t miss appointments or turn up for that job interview. Alarm clocks are supposed to be alarming (kind of the point of the thing really) and better yet, really quite annoying so that they definitely rouse you from coma. However, there’s no reason Christmas gifts of this nature can’t have an element of fun too! They time flies like an arrow, although fruit flies like a banana, but some clearly deranged shed dweller has come up with an idiotic piece of wizardry that’s perfect.
The Flying Alarm Clock has all the functionality of a regular alarm clock such as digital time display, snooze function and alarm. But the alarm has an added twist (and considering the name of the device it will come as no surprise) in the shape of a thing that looks like a ping pong ball with propeller blades that sits on the top of it.When your alarm kicks in this gizmo starts to spin and takes off into the air to land somewhere deep behind a pile of dirty laundry, while the siren-pitch alarm continues to wrench you from your slumber. It will continue to do this until you’ve caught it or hunted down the flying bit and slotted it back into the top of the clock. There’s no rolling over for a quick fifteen minutes snooze that turns into an hour and gets you fired.
