Originally Posted By: wfaulk
The use I see for it is an alarm clock that actually does what I want it to do.

I've been looking for years for an alarm clock that would ramp up the volume of the alarm over a span of thirty minutes or so, in order to rouse me slowly.

I'm very tempted to order one just so that I can finally have that feature. Not that it's apparently built in; I can't imagine you couldn't program it to do that.


In college, we programmed our HP calculators to do exactly that. Turn on the TV, slowly turn the volume up 'till we were awake. Had to use a backup by the bed in case we forgot to point it in the right direction every night.