Homegrown alarm clock tests your math to gauge alertness

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We’ve seen some fairly sinister alarm clocks in our day — ones that fly around, nearly compose you go deaf and “explode” whether you don’t get up in day, for starters — but that DIY creation is definitely lobbying for top honors. The Turing Alarm Clock, which has admittedly been making the rounds of late, starts making racket just as any other alarm clock when the moment comes, but rather than letting

you smash the snooze button, it forces you to reply math questions with varying levels of difficulty before quieting down. Evil? certain. Effective? You betcha. Check the video after the jump.

[Via Hack-A-Day]

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Original post by Darren Murph

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