Wake N’ Bacon
Feeling hungry in the morning? The Wake n’ Bacon, a collaborative alarm clock design by Matty Sallin, Daniel Bartolini and Hsiao-huh Hsu, wakes you up with the delicious scent of bacon instead of the annoying beeping. Here’s how it works:
A frozen strip of bacon is placed in Wake n’ Bacon the night before. Because there is a 10 minute cooking time, the clock is set to go off 10 minutes before the desired waking time. Once the alarm goes off, the clock it sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the alarm sound. We hacked the clock so that the signal is re-routed by a microchip that in responds by sending a signal to a relay that throws the switch to power two halogen lamps that slow-cook the bacon in about 10 minutes.
Clever, isn’t it? But don’t forget that meat is murder. Tasty, tasty murder.
August 7, 2008 - Category: Latest - Posted by: Phil - Comments: 18
August 8th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
i totally want one!!! my fiance wont wake up to save his life, but LOVES bacon. this would be awesome for him
August 8th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I’ve seen this on so many different blogs, yet I can’t help wanting one. It’s so delicious.
August 8th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
That is awesome! Bacon as soon as I wake up? That is so great. Now if I can just find a steak prep machine for dinner time I can replace the wife lol.
August 9th, 2008 at 9:50 am
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August 9th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
that doesnt make sense, because the only sense that doesn’t work while sleeping is smell, so the smell can’t wake you up
August 10th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Your sense of smell must be working while you are asleep…ever seen or heard of smelling salt to force people to wake up?
August 11th, 2008 at 4:25 am
I.m sorry. But this is ridiculous..
Yes, yes. It’s amusing to see that someone thought of this and followed through and built it. But I would NOT want bacon cooking in my bedroom. Especially if it’s enclosed in a wooden box with two VERY HOT halogen lamps inside of it.
This looks like a fire hazard to me and anyone who would want a large, digital, wooden pig head in their bedroom needs to have THEIR head examined.
August 12th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Smelling salts don’t wake you because they smell, it’s a chemical compound that irritates your nose and lungs and cause you to inhale strongly. You wake up because it shocks you. I imagine the name came instead from the fashion in which it is used.
August 12th, 2008 at 7:43 am
that is bizarre…but I bet it’s effective! lol
August 12th, 2008 at 10:41 am
where can i buy this?!??!?!
August 12th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Only 1 strip of bacon? Beyond that, this is the best invention that mankind has ever created. We have reached the pinnacle of our society.
August 17th, 2008 at 6:12 am
i want one my gf makes the bacon toooooooo crispy and i wouldnt have to get out of bed for a back sarni where can i buy one ?
August 20th, 2008 at 8:34 am
I don’t even eat meat but I still want one! What about tofu bacon??? Will that work?
August 20th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Omg it’s beautiful! I want one so bad!! Seriously, if you’re selling them, hit me up!!
August 21st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
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August 22nd, 2008 at 12:04 am
I love this idea and my wife would too because she thinks pigs are cute, so that little box would make her flip.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don’t have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman Grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill, I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it’s good for me. It’s the perfect way to start the day. Today I got up, I stepped onto the grill and it clamped down on my foot… that’s it. I don’t see what’s so hard to believe about that.
February 6th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
None of your senses shut down when you’re sleeping. Smells can wake people up. That’s an asinine statement.