And the award for Most Disturbing Use of an Alarm Clock in a Prime Time Show goes to… FlashForward! I got a weird kick out of recognizing it as Clocky (before the disturbing part).
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Run Away!
Remember Clocky, the fiendish alarm clock that rolls away and hides when you hit snooze? The inventor has graduated from MIT and taken the design commercial. You can now buy your own self-propelled alarm clock.
Fiendish Alarm Clock
The MIT Media Lab has come up with Clocky, an alarm clock that rolls away and hides when you hit the snooze button.
When the alarm clock goes off and the snooze button is pressed, Clocky will fall off of the bedside table and wheel away, bumping mindlessly into objects on the floor until he eventually finds a spot to rest. Minutes later, when the alarm sounds again, the over-sleeper must get up out of bed and search for Clocky. Because you employ multiple senses to find the clock, you are sure to awake before disabling the alarm. Small wheels enable Clocky to move and reposition himself, and an internal computer helps him find a new hiding spot every day.
–From the press release by Gauri Nanda
(via CNET Extra)