This alarm clock/nintendo gun assembly is the best expression I have ever seen of how I feel about alarm clocks and waking up. Buzzz Buzzz Kapoww! See this one and more at www.selfmadeobjects.net.

As a bonus on the innovative alarm clocks post: another top-10 of 'coolest' alarm clocks, including one that measures your sleep cycle and determines the appropriate moment to wake you, and the Kuku Alarm Clock, which - and I quote - "at your set time, begins laying its little eggs and starts chirping away. Unless you return all the eggs into the basket, it won’t stop buzzing!"