Durable - can withstand consecutive freefalls from a tall nightstand without any ill effect. Incessant beeping changes in tone and pitch for maximum annoyance. Doubles as an early morning exercise ...

Native Americans had a surefire technique for rising early in the morning: drink a large amount of water before going to bed and letting nature take its course. Today, we’ve replaced nature with ...

KAI RYSSDAL: We had a story on last year about an alarm clock. Not just any alarm clock. Clocky’s an alarm with wheels. It rolls off the bedside table after you hit the snooze button. So not only do ...

In all likelihood, when you first came across Clocky, it was still just a project from the mind of MIT student Guari Nanda. Now Clocky has grown into a full-fledged product and I totally want one! It ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Before you hit the snooze button a second time on this alarm clock, you'll have to hunt it down. The shag carpet-covered robotic alarm clock on wheels, called Clocky, rolls away ...

After centuries of cowering helplessly as their owners bash them every morning, alarm clocks are starting to run away. “Clocky,” invented by a grad student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Before you hit the snooze button a second time on this alarm clock, you’ll have to hunt it down. The shag carpet-covered robotic alarm clock on wheels, called Clocky, rolls away and ...

Not even the 98-decibel Sonic Alert alarm clock, advertised as an “extremely loud, pulsating alarm” for the hearing impaired, is enough to get Kyle Kipperman out of bed in the morning. The clock, ...

The business proposition: Part iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) and part Kate Spade, Nanda Home creates cute, clever products that are intended, in the words of its founder, to “humanize technology.” The company ...