Alarm clock pair that will sound in two rooms at once?

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03 Sep 2009, 5:28 pm

Do they make alarm clocks that you can set up in multiple rooms? After they sound, I want to hit one 'snooze' button and have them all turn off at once.

I want one so that I can sleep in the living room before work if I want to.


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03 Sep 2009, 7:20 pm

Isn't the point of an alarm clock to make you get up to turn it off?..;)

I dunno...if you could sync 2 alarm clocks, you'd still be out of sync in a week or so. They tend to speed up and slow down based on current flucturations.



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04 Sep 2009, 4:21 pm

What I mean is a pair of alarm clocks that you can put in two different rooms, that will both sound at once, and that will both respond to one snooze button. If they don't have it, they should invent it!


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04 Sep 2009, 4:37 pm

I can't think of a setup like you want.
The closest I can think of is clocks which synch to a radio signal (a timecode, based on an atomic clock, natch), but you would have to set, turn on, and turn off alarms individually.


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04 Sep 2009, 8:17 pm

In theory, you could hardwire the snooze button to 2 identical clocks, but it would probably need a soldering iron...;)



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04 Sep 2009, 9:31 pm

Gosh... they haven't invented this yet?

They should also give us point-and-send text messaging and public restroom deodorizers.


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05 Sep 2009, 4:20 pm

Well, companies figure most people sleep in only one room, so they only need one clock (I've been known to travel at night meself...but that's mainly because it's so @#$ hot in the summer...;)

If you had 2 computers, you could probably run a program (I think there's one in Linux called cron, which runs specific things at specific times; but feel free to correct me...;), you could have it sync both computers, execute at the same time, and accept input from either one to send a command to both.

but that's one of the most expensive ways to do it I can think of...;)