Introducing… Wake’n'Bacon! I for one am not a fan of noisy, high-pitched alarms, and I’ve seen them in all shapes and sizes. The small, annoying, little boxes that sit on a table, whilstling till you crack your heck, hit your head on the radiator then fall out of bed, only to scramble to your feet and find it’s batteries have run out and you need not have left your bed. The large, plastic/padding footballs, that won’t shutup till you throw them against a hard surface. The wall suffices, but rebounding plastic in the eye isn’t the prettiest site at 5:45AM.

Waking up to the smell of bacon? I’m lovin’ it! (Oh sue me…) Mathlete’s Wake’n'Bacon promises to do just that. The night before, lay a strip of frozen bacon in the silver tray within the piggy-faced clock and set the time. Go to bed (peacefully) knowing that the first thing your hear when you wake up WON’T be your alarm screeming at you, but rather next-door’s cat attacking your hedgerow. So here’s the deal… 10 minutes before you’re due to be woken up, the bacon-sizzilng master-device turns on it’s bright halogen panels and starts cooking your bacon. 10 minutes later, a small buzzer goes off and the lil’ piggy’s nose starts flashing. Simply ingenious…

WHAT: An alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon.

WHY: No one likes to wake up, especially by an alarm. This clock gently wakes you up with the mouthwatering aroma of bacon, just like waking up on a Sunday morning to the smell of Mom cooking breakfast. Unless you’re Jewish.

HOW: A frozen strip of bacon is placed in Wake n’ Bacon the night before. Because there is a 10 minute cooking time, the clock is set to go off 10 minutes before the desired waking time. Once the alarm goes off, the clock it sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the alarm sound. We hacked the clock so that the signal is re-routed by a microchip that in responds by sending a signal to a relay that throws the switch to power two halogen lamps that slow-cook the bacon in about 10 minutes.

What can be said? That’s one schaweet alarm that I’d actually ENJOY waking up to! Check out the official Wake’n'Bacon site for more photos!