In another alarm clock designed to torture their owners, the “Tyrant” concept is the latest.  This one is a bit on the odd side.  There are numerous alarms out there that require some elaborate function be performed by the owner to ensure he/she is up and ready to face the day ahead, like “Clocky”, which rolls away when you hit the snooze button, forcing you to hunt it down to turn it off again, alarms with helicopter attachments that fly away and those that require hand eye coordination to turn off.

The Tyrant alarm will hijack the contact list in your cell phone and randomly call each one in 3 minute intervals until it is turned off.  The device is still in concept mode but they may be on to something here.  The only thing that it needs to be truly effective is message playback. Something like automated drunk dialing—only more devastating. For example, record: “Hey sexy, it’s me. Listen, I had to call because I had another dream about you last night. I can’t get you out of my mind.” The horrifying thought of that message being delivered to your father at 6:00 in the morning is enough to get anyone out of bed.

Sadly, for those like me, the only place it will call is Pizza Hut.  I need freinds (Sigh).