I was going to write about how awesome my Sony alarm clock was. But somebody has beat me to it. Around 2001, after being late for school several days in a row because I had mis-set am/pm on my alarm clock, I decided I had to get a better one. I searched for days and finally found it. It’s almost the same model as the one talked about in the link, but mine has buttons instead of knobs to set the alarm time. Also, mine has an “alarm off” button. It’s no bigger than any of the other buttons, but unlike the rest has an indentation, so it’s super easy to find eyes-free.

By the way, I’ve used that alarm clock referenced in the link before, and the knobs aren’t real. You can’t turn these knobs, they’re really centering, three-state switches. To increase the time, you flip the “knob” up, pushing the internal “up” switch, and likewise for down.

At about the same time I bought that alarm clock, I sketched my own:

Best feature still not in commercially available alarm clocks? Jog dials.

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