Slap Alarm!

Hearing a piercing alarm coming from your smartphone is an unpleasant enough way to start the day, but how about a slap in the face?

 
A robotics enthusiast has engineered a particularly alarming clock that repeatedly strikes her head with a rubber hand.

Called The Wake Up Machine, it is made using a traditional alarm clock mounted to the wall with the motorised arm, and it was designed to 'make bed a little bit less comfortable'.