Leave it to Nintendo to announce a quirky alarm clock to get fans already excited about the upcoming Switch 2 release. Alarmo will wake you up with the sounds of Mario coins and chirping Pikmin. It’s $100, works best if you sleep alone, and it’s disrupting the network’s collective brain.
It ticks all the boxes: whimsical, quirky, unnecessarily expensive, and oddly timed. Official news on the Switch 2 has been rumored for weeks, ever since Nintendo skipped its traditional September reveal, and it could finally be revealed any day now. Instead, the company launched Alarmo without hesitation. Pre-orders are live and sold out. Of course, some people are trying to sell the Alarmo, which won’t ship until 2025, Nearly double the standard price on eBay.
But the most interesting part about Alarmo is that it’s not very suitable for couples. A sensor that turns off the clock when you get up cannot tell when two people are sleeping together. “Alarmo cannot detect specific people, so if multiple people are sleeping in the same bed within range of the sensor, the alarm may stop when one person gets up, but restart as soon as another person is detected in the bed,” Read the FAQ. “Once everyone is up, the alarms stop completely.”
Sounds interesting. The internet agreed, reacting to the trouble the clock is causing for couples, its name, the time it was announced, and more:
There was even an official Q&A with designers Yosuke Tamori and Tetsuya Akama about the creation of the device. There yes Four separation part! Essentially, the purpose of the experiment is to find new applications for the company’s motion sensor technology. While you might have expected Nintendo’s clocks to include gaming elements, they ultimately decided against them because they didn’t want to disrupt the normal incentives for sleep through gamification.
But during testing, one Alarmo prototype apparently made people tap in time with the clock. it beeps every time It sounds like it comes from rhythm paradise. Rest in peace.
