A lottery-inspired alarm clock rewards you for making the effort to seize the opportunity – Yanko Design

Most of us usually use smartphones to set alarms without realizing that these little bedside radiation salesmen are disrupting our sleep patterns. It’s best to leave phones a comfortable distance from the bed. But then, how do you wake up the lazy sleeper? Well, invest in an alarm clock that can become your best friend to start the day with a purpose.

If you have a set agenda, schedule, or routine after the alarm goes off, you’re set and probably doing well. For others – who wake up every morning aimlessly, with no set routine to follow – the snooze button on the phone or clock is the preferred choice. The Fortune Clock arrives without the snooze option, but rather with a specific wake-up activity that goes way beyond just waking you up with something to do.

Creator: Ho Hyun LIM

When you are looking for an alarm clock, you look for the night light option, volume levels and of course the snooze button. For the fortune clock, you may need to have a different mindset: a view of your fortune based on how you get up in the morning.

That looks interesting? That’s right ! The clock with a digital display on the front quarter – showing the time and day – has an interesting wheel of fortune just below. The idea is to fill the clock from the top with balls. When you wake up in the morning to turn off the alarm (by pressing the top button), a ball with a number is released (this happens every day) and appears in the cutout groves on the facade.

While the idea of ​​the clock is to get the user used to making an effort to get up to stop the alarm and get the ball rolling (not literally); According to the designer, the numbered balls are also fortune tellers. The user can, Ho believes, combine the numbers on the balls obtained through this effort of getting up, buy lottery tickets, try their luck. It’s up to you to figure out how much numerology the clock does, but those hard-earned numbers will definitely make a difference in your sleep cycle and wake-up routine.