My favorite was the physical alarm clock that would launch a propeller across your bedroom. The only way to turn off the alarm was to find the propeller and put it back on the base.
I was initially thinking Clocky, but Clocky was an alarm on wheels.
I don't think the propeller one had any name beyond "flying alarm clock" or somesuch, and the failure mode seems way worse: if the propeller shoots out an open window or wedges itself behind furniture you're hosed.
Plus finding a small propeller in the dark corners of your room while just woken up seems way too stressful a task, frankly.
I don't think the propeller one had any name beyond "flying alarm clock" or somesuch, and the failure mode seems way worse: if the propeller shoots out an open window or wedges itself behind furniture you're hosed.
Plus finding a small propeller in the dark corners of your room while just woken up seems way too stressful a task, frankly.