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Alarm clock that won't give up
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AN ALARM clock that will not switch off until the slumberer has
shown they are fully awake has been invented by a student at
Strathclyde University.
The puzzle clock, created by Liam Hastie for his engineering
degree, is designed to overcome "sleep inertia" - the groggy feeling
which, scientists say, can impair mental faculties for ten minutes,
but sometimes for up to two hours after waking.
The wall-mounted alarm clock can be switched off only when its
user climbs out of bed, stands directly in front and repeats, by
pressing coloured buttons, a sequence generated randomly each
morning. If ...
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