Got a little bored and decided to participate in Core77's newest 1-Hour design challenge
The theme is gestural interfaces, and the idea is to "create a simple but engaging interaction that does not rely on a screen for input or output. You are free to appropriate an everyday object or to create a unique piece of geometry, but your solution must invite the user to interact with information or their surroundings in a way that encourages discovery while delivering an element of performance."
My design aims to solve bad-morning scenarios or rituals. A wall-mounted alarm clock/radio eliminates its owners ability to sleep in through the alarm.
The usual causes of sleeping in (through my personal experience only) are perpetual-snooze-button-slapping or alarm-unplugging, and phones losing battery power in the middle of the night and effectively disabling the alarm set on it.
The re-designed alarm clock does three things:
Makes you set an alarm
Makes you charge your electronics
Doesn't let you sleep until you've done both of them.
20 or so minutes to come up with idea and some sketches
15 minutes modelling
20 minutes fighting photoworks to render
A lot of time trying to get sketches digitized through scanner and then camera.
10 minutes photoshop