Beep Beep Beep
February 23, 2011
No…. not a tank reversing. Alarm clocks 
Having now gotten used to my android phone I am finding uses for it I never knew possible. One is the vast array of different alarm clocks the app store has to offer, and the one I’m using is awesome enough to warrant a blog post 
Options available (and advantages over a traditional alarm clock):
- Time between snoozes (awesome as most are just fixed at 9-10 minutes which is more than enough for me to get back to deep sleep)
- Number of snoozes, or unlimited (rather than just a fixed 1 hour, which is often not enough to get me awake)
- Day select (so that I don’t forget to turn it off at a weekend and then on on a weekday)
- Speaking clock (fairly self explanatory)
- Enforced Mathematics… ???
Ok, so the last one is what really kicks ass. Before you can turn the alarm off you have to solve an “arithmetic problem” to the tune of x + ( y * z ) or (x * y ) + z.
So every 4 minutes in the morning I solve a maths problem, and it actually really works… my wakeup time has gone down from over 1 hour to 12 minutes (although this will probably increase as my maths skillz improve and my brain wakes up less and less with each problem)
