Mark Charan Newton

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Before I Go…

August 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’m a vegetarian, but even I can appreciate this alarm clock.

WHAT: An alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon…

HOW: A frozen strip of bacon is placed in Wake n’ Bacon the night before. Because there is a 10 minute cooking time, the clock is set to go off 10 minutes before the desired waking time. Once the alarm goes off, the clock it sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the alarm sound. We hacked the clock so that the signal is re-routed by a microchip that in responds by sending a signal to a relay that throws the switch to power two halogen lamps that slow-cook the bacon in about 10 minutes.

Not quite the same for, what, Quorn rashers presumably?

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  • 1 Tom Lloyd // Aug 5, 2008 at 9:16 am

    That’s the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time, why am I waking up to radio 4 in the morning?!

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