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This may be baked, but I've never found it anywhere. Always thought it'd be a good idea.
My alarm clock doesn't wake me up. Very well. My telephone does. What I propose is a small alarm clock device plugged into the wall that your phone plugs into. Your phone functions normally. The device causes
your phone to ring at the desired alarm time that you have set. When you pick up the phone, the robotic voice tells you "eight o'clock, time to get up", or whatever. You can respond by saying "off" or "snooze", in which case the phone will call you back in a few minutes.
The benefit of this product is that you can never be sure if it is someone calling you or your alarm, so you will always wake up to answer it. Plus, being portable, you can use it anywhere there's a phone, such as at hotels, etc. Naturally the device should function like a standard alarm clock in the absence of a phone, too.
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It might cost more, but answering services used to do this. |
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Back in the dark ages I worked for an answering service and this was one of our tasks, we had clients who we would call to wake up at certain times. Some of them also had us calling back some number of minutes later to make sure they were really up. Sort of a paid nagging service. |
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This was probably around 1980. We actually used plug boards like you see Lilli Tomlin use on Laugh-In. |
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Just set the alarm on your mobile and use
one of your ring tones as the wake up
sound. |
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What [xenzag] said, this option has been available on every phone I have ever used. |
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Ah, well, this idea pre-dates cell phones! But your cell phone alarm doesn't talk to you when you answer it, does it? |
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Anyway, I don't want my cell phone to wake me up. I nostalgically long for the simpler days of less technologically-advanced yore....
I want that good ol'-fashioned rotary home phone I have to wake me up, with that ol'-fashioned bell ring, with a good ol'-fashioned robotic voice on the other end. |
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my very new, cordless phone set with talking caller id has a ringtone that sounds like the first Bell telephone ever made, if you're looking for nostalgia.....or listening for it. |
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A ring tone that sounds like "Ahoy? Ahoy? Is this thing on?" |
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//You can respond by saying "off"...//
On a bad morning, can I prefix anything to that "off"? |
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my cell phone has an alarm clock on it, most do if you have some sort of reminder function on it- just select a ringer for your cell phone that resembles you home phone if you would like |
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[tatmkr]No disrespect, but have you read the anno's above? |
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I think at least Alexander would've been proud.
*sigh*
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Mr. Bell, come here; I need you. |
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Mr Watson, sod off, I'm still in bed. |
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The person calling you could ask you to calculate a hard sum; say something like "What's 36 * 5?" |
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This would force you to engage brain and wake up. |
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If you got the answer wrong, they could add a small premium to your bill, if you got it right it would be free; this would encourage to get the answers right as well; rather than just telling them to feck off. |
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Laugh in? G_C, you just made me
feel old. |
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