World's Coolest Alarm Clock

Read what Chris Kaye

of mens.style.com

had to say about it:

It's a Stretch

The alarm clock of the future

Here’s an alarm clock guaranteed to get you out of bed no matter how much you hate going to work.

Developed by Hayat Benchenaa, a student at Italy’s Interaction Design Institute, the Sfera—a play on the Italian word for sphere—draws its inspiration from mobiles for babies.

When the alarm-radio goes off, gently whack the orblike clock hanging above your crib for another five minutes of shut-eye.

While you're snoozing, the Sfera sneakily raises itself 20 centimeters higher.

After the fourth turn, the ball is too high to grasp, making it impossible to turn off without getting your lazy ass up.

Sounds almost too good to be too true—and in a way it is.

Sadly, Benchenaa’s prototype has yet to go into production, despite a growing groundswell of support in the blogosphere.

For now, anyway, the Sfera remains, well, tantalizingly out of reach.

I want one.

[via whereisben.com]