Question: Are alarm clocks obsolete?

I have a dual alarm clock. Rarely do I sleep to the point of having the alarm go off and I never, ever hit a snooze button.

I am an annoying morning person. :grin:
 
I still have and use mine from the 80s. Having said that my 17 year old son also has one that is only a couple years old. I only us my iPhone for an alarm clock while camping in the wilderness. I like the big numbers on my alarm clock.
 
I have an old one and use it most days. Something else is that I a couple years ago I stopped doing the Std/Daylight change at home. My internal clock was always messed up and it's a way to keep me on time.
 
I use an alarm clock.

When wife went back to work I had to find a clock with hands that plugs into the wall. Impossible. Had to order it on Amazon. Why did she need that clock? She was afraid to use a slow cooker that she didn't babysit all day. Afraid the electricity would go out, food in temperature danger zone for hours and undercooked. Now she can compare that clock to all the others.
 
Bob411 said:
I use an alarm clock.

When wife went back to work I had to find a clock with hands that plugs into the wall. Impossible. Had to order it on Amazon. Why did she need that clock? She was afraid to use a slow cooker that she didn't babysit all day. Afraid the electricity would go out, food in temperature danger zone for hours and undercooked. Now she can compare that clock to all the others.
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ummm.....meat thermometer???
 
Steverino said:
I had an uncle who worked for Westclox back in the sixties. Visiting one day, I saw one of the new models on a table and I was mesmorized, the first digital I'd ever seen. Instead of the flipping cards thing, the numbers were just a rolling drum with numbers on each. He bought me one for Christmas. I was nine, a total geek.
This is the only one I could find that close to it.
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But by far the coolest digital clocks to me anyway and I'd still love to own one, are the Nixie tube digitals. You can buy 'em in kits to build yourself, but even they're stupid expensive because Nixie tubes were phased out here in the US decades ago and replaced by LEDs. They stayed in use in Soviet parts of Russia and eastern European countries, and that's the only part of the world you can find them.
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I love nixie tube clocks. Coincidentally, I've been looking at them for the last couple of weeks trying to decide which one to buy. I might get a vacuum fluorescent display clock, too.
 
I would still like to find one of those vintage wind-up travel clocks that unfolds and sits on your hotel nightstand. Those were really cool.
 
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