Design The Nintendo sound clock looks exactly what you’d expect a alarm clock made by Nintendo to look like. If you get up as soon as your alarm clock rings, you’re probably a gentle mode kind of person. “An alarm clock needs to wake you up, and so it needs to do something ‘alarming’ to achieve this, usually by use …
-- It’s 7 a.m., the sun poking through the curtains, and blearily I am awakened — not by birdsong, but by the barking of a Chain Chomp, a ball-and-chain-like recurring enemy in the Super Mario video-game series. The hybrid console — the source of almost all of Nintendo’s revenue — is on its last legs, with the company on Tuesday …
No one has ever applauded me for getting out of bed before. This is life with Nintendo’s Alarmo, a new alarm clock that’s part nostalgic love letter to the worlds of “Super Mario Bros.” and “The Legend of Zelda,” and part modern sleep-tracking device. We can force ourselves to wake up, so if we’re having issues with insomnia or maintaining …
Of all the hardware announcements we might have been expecting next from Nintendo, a new alarm clock was not one of them. Alarmo looks every bit the alarm clock you might imagine Nintendo would make, if you would have ever imagined Nintendo would make an alarm clock. Like something plucked straight from the nightstand of Mario himself, it’s a very …
