So they have this really nice alarm clock that literally runs away from you once it starts to go off. It's called clocky, and it's set on two wheels. I'm not kidding, it literally runs away from you. The reasoning behind it is that when the alarm clock goes off in the morning, people often oversleep because they keep hitting the snooze button too many times.

I have a better solution: Remove the snooze button. Or at least make it optional.

It's so simple that I am astounded no one has thought of it. Sure clocky is cute (I got one as a gift one year) but it actually doesn't work all that well. For one, if you don't have the floor space then there is no where it can run. Second, if you're floor is tilted like mine was, it just sits there and goes around in circles so it's easy to catch. And what if you have a rug?

No, sometimes the best solution is the simplest one. That solution is simple: Get rid of the snooze!

You may worry that by getting rid of the snooze, you won't make it to work at all. What happens if you just turn off the alarm completely? To be honest, I doubt you'd do that. When we are half asleep as we are when the alarm goes off in the morning, we are not completely stupid. We are only half aware. Our will power is diminished and our sense of time is off, but we are still aware of things like "if I turn the alarm clock off, I won't make it to work at all." However, the snooze button tricks us. We can say "lets hit it just one more time" without even looking at the clock. If our sense of time is off because we are sleeping, we may think that "just one more time" will put us to only five minutes or ten minutes later while in reality it may be twenty.

It's the most ridicolus thing I have ever seen- the snooze button is the worst invention ever, yet nobody sees it. I am glad I haven't overslept much since my unergrad college days. Still I cannot get over the fact that everyone is overlooking this very simple solution. The first person who makes an alarm clock with an optional snooze button is my hero. I will buy your alarm clock the first day you sell it, even though I may never need it.