It’s a wake-up droid!
But it’s not an ordinary wake-up droid, like the one already sitting on your nightstand.
This one is designed to run away from you!
Specifically: When you hit the snooze button the first time, it rolls off your nightstand of its own volution and bounces softly on the floor (courtesy of its soft covering) and then rolls a random distance away (courtesy of Fred’s two feetit’s two wheels) and then sounds off again when the snooze period is up, forcing you to get out of bed and find it to shut it off.
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Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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COOL! Cudos to the MIT Media Lab. Way to go!!! Let’s hear it for my Alma Mater!
…forcing you to get out of bed and find it to shut it off.
…or put a bullet in it.
That’s brilliant!
Of course, knowing myself as well as I do, I’d probably keep a croquett mallet next to my bed. I’d go broke buying replacements.
Methinks a normal person would go through them quickly. Better have lots in stock.
~Kosh
MMMmmm.. wake-up droid!