"Flying Alarm Clock for $18: The idea behind this alarm is funny-when the alarm goes off, a propeller ejects from the top and the sleeper is forced to get up, find the propeller, and place it back on the top to get the alarm to stop beeping. However, during the week I used it, the alarm did not stop beeping when the propeller was placed back on the top, when the snooze button was pressed, or when the alarm button was switched off."
"Alarm Clock App (In-App Purchases): This is a puzzle-style alarm app similar to the Alarmy app, but it has fewer features and is buggier. The alarm lets you hit snooze three times before it forces you to actually complete a task, which wasn't helpful for a chronic snoozer like me. The biggest issue, though, was that the alarm didn't sound when my phone was in vibrate or silent mode."
A flying-propeller alarm ejects a propeller to force retrieval to silence the alarm, but it failed to stop when the propeller was returned, when the snooze button was pressed, and when the alarm switch was turned off; removing a battery was the only reliable way to silence it. A puzzle-style alarm app offers task-based wakeups after three snoozes but has fewer features, fails to sound in vibrate or silent phone modes, and frequently glitched, froze, or shut down. A gun-target alarm makes shooting control only the snooze while a separate button is required to turn the alarm off, reducing the shooting element’s effectiveness at forcing wakefulness.
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