Designers Sofie Collin and Gustav Lanber have developed The Carpet Alarm Clock, which forces you to get up and step on it in order to turn it off. Which sounds pretty good in theory, but you’d just end up walking back to your bed and falling asleep. What they really need to do is develop an alarm clock that just lights you on fire in the morning.

via http://www.geekologie.com/2007/06/the_carpet_alarm_clock.php