Originally published at: Nintendo Alarmo is a $99 alarm clock coming in early 2025 - Boing Boing
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I’ve read a lot about this in the past day and despite the fact they are selling, I don’t understand the target market for this. It’s not even like it plays full scenes and stuff…you can get more with a phone alarm!
If it was $25, I’d give it a try. $50 would still be too much. But $100? And people on Nintendo fan sites are cheering about being able to buy it.
You know what would be a killer function, slightly implied by the name? If you could put an Amiibo on top and set it to that character/theme’s sounds/voice/animation/etc. But nope.
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I think my phone does all that.
Best alarm out of Japan I ever saw:
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That would be brilliant! Such a missed opportunity.
And of course, you should be able to modify it to add in a quality wake up song…
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Why is this not just a $0.99 app for my phone?
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I love the idea of this, but my wife and I wake up at two different times and she is NOT a morning person. This would cause nothing but problems 
(plus I’m not spending $100 on a clock)
Because your iphone doesn’t have a motion sensor to allow it to play coin sounds as you roll over and try to hide from the morning?
I think this might be the alarm clock that my autistic teen finally allows in his room. Who wouldn’t want to wake up to Zelda saying “Wake up, Link!” ?
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I’m thinking something like that would just encourage people to seek out bootleg Amiibo cards. (I would totally invest in a set of bootleg Amiibo cards if they were just a teensy bit easier to get my hands on.)
I would expect that they would have implemented this as a widget that attaches to a Switch, especially since most people interested in something like this would already have a Switch – but I suppose the economics allow them to target a larger audience. Or perhaps they don’t want to encourage people to take the Switch to bed.
I also might have expected more features, like something that tracks your sleep duration or that encourages you to go to bed earlier. Maybe they’re holding things back to encourage people to upgrade in the future? Or maybe they don’t want to overcomplicate things.
… As always, Nintendo’s ultimate goal should be to find some way to monetize people speculating about what Nintendo should do.
Presumably somebody from the Nintendo legal department. They have to do something when they aren’t trying to shut down emulators!
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I have that! (or rather its Americanized version)
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If all else fails, use fire
And if that fails, use Merzbow
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Not only is it almost embarrasingly easy to make your phone into an Amiibo, the Amiibo card market is thriving quite nicely. It wouldn’t, it Amiibos were common like they used to be. But since Nintendo decided to start making even new releases limited ones, the only winners are scalpers.
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Time to fall down a rabbit hole and figure this out 
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When all else fails, use explosion
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Alarmo uses millimeter-wave presence sensors to track user movement, and it feeds that data into an internal system that keeps track of user sleep patterns (Alarmo does not send any sleep information to Nintendo).
Not yet, anyway.
For a hundred dollars, I would expect a flying alarm drone that:
Dives at you, but just barely misses
Hovers sinisterly
Plays random music/voices/explosions/sound of a mosquito by your ear
Drops small items on you if you’re still not moving
Avoids blows and missile weapons
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