Nintendo announces new ‘Alarmo’ alarm clock

Yesterday, Nintendo announced their latest device — an alarm clock. You can watch the trailer if you’re interested. In short, it’s a small alarm clock that sits on your bedside table and wakes you up with the music from various Nintendo video games.

It has some form of radar / sensor that detects stirring as you begin to wake up and plays sound effects from the selected game. Functionally useless in the age of smartphone alarms next to most bedsides, it does at least bring some fun in an age where gadgets are usually boring. I really wonder what the chain of meetings inside Nintendo HQ looked like for this to be released.