During Christmas time, it’s very tempting to spend the whole day in bed. We have all endeavoured to find clocks and alarm clocks as Christmas gifts that not only tell the time but also have a distinctly fun appeal. It could be for your indolent teen who appears to regard the middle of the afternoon as the “morning” or maybe for the breadwinner in your household as a reminder to get their sorry selves out into the world of commerce and bring home the Christmas turkey.

This type of giftscan prove handy right into the New Year, especially if staying punctual if part of your New Years’ resolution. Now, alarm clocks are supposed to be alarming (that’s the point of the things really) and ideally they should be really quite annoying so that they definitely rouse you from a coma. But that doesn’t mean Boys toys of this nature can’t have an element of fun too! Allegedly, it was Groucho Marx who said “time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana” but some clearly even more deranged comedic inventor has come up with the Flying Alarm Clock.

This might indeed be the perfect gifts for him as it has all the normal functionality of a normal alarm, but once the alarm goes off, there’s an added bonus. OK, so the clever ones amongst you have probably figured out what this might be, given the name of the gadget. There’s a small device on top of the clock that resembles a table-tennis pall with propellor blades attached to it. Once the alarm goes off, the ball begins to spin wildly. It takes off into the air while a siren-pitched alarm wrenches you from your slumber. It won’t stop doing this until you’ve caught it or hunted down the flying bit and slotted it back into the top of the clock. So it really can put an end to that ‘five more minutes’ that so often makes you late for work.

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