After centuries of cowering helplessly as their owners bash them every morning, alarm clocks are starting to run away.
“Clocky,” invented by a grad student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, is round and furry and has wheels. It takes off in search of a hiding place as soon as you hit the snooze button.
That you have to get out of bed to hunt it down after it rolls off the nightstand is considered good news by slugabeds like its creator, Gauri Nanda.
“I’ve hit the snooze button for, like, two hours,” the 25-year-old said.