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I challenge you to create a unique alarm clock

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Former Member over 12 years ago

Hey Ben I am a big fan of your show and have an idea for you to build. I want to see a unique pc connectable alarm clock that can connect to any smartphone with interchangable docks (like micro usb and 30 pin dock connector) it would also be cool if there was a array of multicolor leds as the screen instead of just a plain old lcd. This would allow you to display multicolor patterns and graphics as well as song and artist info on it. It would be pc (or mac) compatible to allow you to put new graphics on it and maybe even autoset the time. It would also be cool if it had bluetooth built in to wirelessly stream music to it ( maybe even apple airplay). On top of that it also needs to be able to display the date, have an alarm,standard alar clock stuff. Can you do it? I challenge you. Make it cool!

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    Former Member over 12 years ago

    Can I suggest taking this a step further?? I have always been annoyed that I am unable to find a good alarm clock that will allow me to set my alarm based on my REAL schedule and not just events Mon-Fri, Sat+Sun & Mon-Sun... perhaps something simple that could connect wirelessly to my network and syncronize with a Google calendar shared between my wife and my accounts... is that possible?

     

    (NOTE: I don't want to use my phone because of the risk of waking up my wife because I do get early morning support calls)

     

    LOVE THE SHOW BEN!!

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    benheck over 12 years ago

    We'll your idea in mind when we're planning upcoming episodes. Thanks for sharing.

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