Alarm Clock Concepts

1. Alarm Clock

2. Alarm on Email Client

3. Burglar Alarm

4. Annoyances

4.1. High Pitch

4.2. Intensity of sound

4.3. missing the snooze

4.4. focus primarily on sound - not visual (think of hearing impaired)

4.5. Shop alarm - mistaken alert - embarrassing for shoppers

4.6. Turning off alarm on phone not intuitive

4.7. waking my wife

5. Ideas

5.1. Could alarm focus on smell / touch?

5.2. Alarm that is tactile in nature

6. Technological changes / advances

6.1. Alarms getting integrated into products

6.2. Alarms becoming 'mobile'

6.3. Aromatherapy Alarm Clock

6.4. Alarm in Smart Home Devices like Amazon Echo / Google Home

6.5. 'Bedbud' vibration alarm. Won't stop until you get out of the bed.

6.5.1. The 'snooze dilema'

6.6. 'Ruggie' - requires you to stand on it for 3 seconds

6.6.1. The 'snooze dilemma'

6.7. IDEA: ALARM THAT REQUIRES HUMAN-POWERED MOTION TO TURN OFF - LIKE A CYCLE-TYPE MOVEMENT.

7. Smoke Alarm

8. Fire Alarm

9. ALARMS: ALERT PEOPLE OF SOMETHING - DANGER, HAZARD, APPOINTMENT, TIME TO GET UP

10. Motion Detector

11. Alarms in shops

11.1. Go off when ppl walk thru even if they havent stolen something

12. TECHNICAL OPTIONS

12.1. SOURCE OF POWER?

12.1.1. SOLAR

12.1.2. BATTERY

12.1.3. DYNAMO-BASED

12.1.4. ELECTRICITY

12.2. DISPLAY OPTIONS?

12.2.1. CLOCK

12.2.2. SMELL

12.2.3. AUDITORY

12.3. FORM OF ALERT?

12.3.1. AUDIO

12.3.2. VISUAL

12.3.3. TACTILE

12.3.4. PROPRIOCEPTIVE

12.3.5. SMELL

12.3.6. EQUILBRIOCEPTION?

12.3.7. CHRONOCEPTION

12.3.8. ITCHINESS