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% ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...