Now this is innovation – an alarm clock that wakes you up with the “smell and sizzle” of cooking bacon! Not my cup of tea, personally, but I have to give this invention props for creativity (maybe it would work with vegetarian bacon? eesh). Plus, I am partial to any alarm clock that doesn’t involve a horrendous noise that makes me want to smash at it.
How it works: you place a frozen strip of bacon in the Wake n’ Bacon at night. The clock is set to go off 10 minutes before the desired waking time. The inventors hacked the alarm clock so that instead of the clock signaling the speaker to generate the alarm sound, the signal is instead re-routed by a microchip that 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. Phew – complicated!
I have to wonder though…it wouldn’t take too long for a single strip of frozen bacon to thaw. Is it safe for a piece of raw bacon to sit out all night? What if creepy little bugs get in there and crawl on it? The food safety stuff just freaks me out a little too much.
Via /mathlete/
