That’s just awful. Somebody call PETA. Steady on. This isn’t some kind of archaic Flintstones gadget with a cramped, unpaid animal trapped inside it. The woodpecker in The Alarming Clock is 100% ...
Woodpeckers must be one of the most irritating birds around, so goodness knows why anyone would want to wake up to the sound of a woodpecker doing its thing. Taptaptap. Tap-tap-tap. I feel angry and ...
Sleepers set a dial for the time between 6am and 9am they want to rise and, at zero hour, a metal 'beak' taps out a call on the nearest bedside object Photo: Natalie Duckett Miss Duckett, from North ...
Alarm clocks are a singular design challenge: It’s one of the few objects–besides smoke alarms–intentionally designed to be as annoying as humanly possible, without being hopelessly unpleasant. The ...
A "woodpecker clock" invented by a 22-year-old student has replaced the annoying clangs and buzzes of traditional alarms with a gentle tapping wake-up. The revolutionary timepiece has no face or even ...
Alarm clocks are a singular design challenge: It’s one of the few objects–besides smoke alarms–intentionally designed to be as annoying as humanly possible, without being hopelessly unpleasant. The ...
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