Alarm clock

Interface design is not limited to software. Every object around us has an interface design, and most of it has evolved over years, but many things can still be improved. Don't you get annoyed when you want to get up five minutes earlier in the morning, and you have to press the minutes forward button 55 times, instead of just being able to go five minutes back in time? Even if your alarm clock has such a function, it is usually so complicated that people need a manual the first time they use it. A clock should not need a manual!

This particular problem raised the wish in Ellen Bergmann, Toralf Ohme and me to develop a new generation of alarm clock which has all the functions you can imagine, but still does not need more than three buttons.

This new design uses a jog shuttle known from VCR remote controls to set the time.

Unfortunately, the 3D graphics of the alarm clock are in Germany at the moment. If requested, I will put them here.