About a year ago I got one of those alarm clocks that slowly light up to simulate the sun rise, and that's been a game changer. I wake up so much easier and feel less groggy when I do.
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I had a pay-as-you-go Nokia from an overseas trip that was perfect as a nonfunctional phone/alarm clock when I got home because it announced the time. Hit snooze at 8am and next alarm it’d say “the time is 8:10” and then do the noise.
I have a Sony Dream Machine CD clock radio. I can wake up to CD's. It's pretty cool. I hope it lasts forever.
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I never stopped having an alarm clock. It stopped being the alarm but remained the bedroom clock.
One tyrant rose up and overthrew another. Ordinary people like us were left to carry the cost.
You know what I miss? Answering Machines.
I'm tired of voice mail. I want my "voice mail" to live ON the phone and be provided by an app.
I don't see why this couldn't be done with an app.... though I'm not an app developer... So what do I know.
Modern voicemail isn't done on device like it was with an answering machine. Instead of your machine picking up, your telecom provider does, so you're no longer actually receiving a call, they are. Theoretically you could have it pick up a ring before your telecom does, but then you'd have 2 mailboxes and if you're offline the call would go to your provider's box.
This is even the case for landlines nowadays. I had to setup a new phone for a lady and Comcast was snagging the call before her machine would. Had to change it to pickup before they did.
There's also security sandboxes and stuff in Android which don't allow interaction with the phone components. You ever notice that there are no apps at all which can record the call you're on? That's why. They've locked it down so that you don't have the tools to create such an app in the first place.
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me and the rest of the ADHD gang keeping the alarm clock market on life support because a phone alarm is too easy to turn off in your sleep:
I can't sleep with an alarm clock because my ADHD causes me to always want to look at the time if it's in immediate view
have you tried blocking the view of the clock with a Mountain of Pillows™?
Warning: alarm may not be audible when it inevitably slips under pillows or between mattress and wall.
Just put it face down on the night stand?
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maybe worth a shot, but I feel like I would impulsively "need" to look still, and end up looking over the Mountain o' Pillows
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As were many consumer electronics, radios, walkmans, calculators, landline phones, etc.
Get your own shower thought, dude.
Jk
I will add, of all the things, alarm clocks seem like they deserved it the least. They did one thing and they were fine at it.
Fine is the right term for this. The alarm clocks were not great, not terrible. They were just fine.
You couldn't adjust the sound volume or the sound they make. In the later years of alarm clocks, you did have some fancy lamp-radio-alarm-hybrid devices that did have some settings. However, they were woefully inadequate for my needs, so I was stuck with a solution that was nothing more than fine.
Enter mobile phones and their ability to play any mp3 file. My life changed! I made a custom sound that starts gently instead of jumping straight to the RUN OR DIE -stage we've sadly grown accustomed to in the past decades. IMO a mobile phone alarm is orders of magnitude superior to any alarm clock I've ever seen.
I fucking love alarm clocks. Why? My phone used to be the very first and the very last thing I touch every day. As soon as I unlock my phone, it becomes hard to not get distracted and do other stuff on it. Now, I can have phoneless mornings and evenings.
Good idea. What sound do you use, just out of curiosity?
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Nice. I can see how that'd work. I might have to steal the idea.
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They did one thing and they were fine at it.
so were radios, calculators, landline phones etc
You right. I don't need to argue. I will elaborate, if that's OK.
So radios:
I love the old am/fms super neat. Come in all shapes and sizes. By the time I was oldenough, though, they had "boom boxes". Boom box wanted to give you speakers that you could blast through the house, CD tray, cassette player, cassette recorder, microphone jack. I'm more then happy to trade in the boom box for a phone and set of Bluetooth headphones.
Calculators:
The times you need a calculator you don't have one. If you did, it was garbage. No one's packing a ti-87 all day everyday. Not to say there wasn't really nice pocket calculators, just i never got much use out of them.
Landline:
Miss them. Have memories of using my grandparents rotary phone. Just, by the time I was old enough, no point in having two phones. At least for me.
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The Smartphone Wars, when Nokia bombardments were a daily reality! Rough times...
That's also how the alarm clocks were wiped out! It was a massacre...
OMG that ringtone is stuck in my head now.
Yes, that was their incoming shriek, you'd hear a Doppler of the Nokia ringtone, then it started raining bricks!
I'm just thankful we were able to negotiate peace. Though, we could have done better the data plan.
We got really lucky the RAZRs were personable and took pity on us, the data plan was a reasonable compromise at the time... It was either that, or those barely functional Sony nav nubs for everyone, and that would've been assured extinction!
Motorola will rise again!!!