Aug 5 2008Wake Up To Meat: The Wake N' Bacon
The Wake n' Bacon is a collaborative alarm clock design by Matty Sallin, Daniel Bartolini and Hsiao-huh Hsu. It wakes you up with the delicious scent of bacon instead of beeping. How?
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.
Simple as that. No loud noises, no breaking your alarm, just delicious bacon. Now what you need to do is keep a mini-fridge by the bed so you can toss in another piece, hit snooze, and ten minutes later: more bacon. Toss in another piece, hit snooze, and ten minutes later: more bacon. Toss in another piece, hit snooze, and ten minutes later: more bacon. Toss in another piece, hit snooze, and ten minutes later: you can't see your penis past your pork-gut anymore because you eat two pounds of bacon every morning.
Thanks Mac and Liz, now make one that can cook an egg and biscuit too.
Reader Comments
1. Dan - August 5, 2008 4:57 PM
fuck yeah!
2. Dan - August 5, 2008 4:59 PM
niiiiiice i was just about to ask about the whole snooze issue!
3. actionjezus - August 5, 2008 5:00 PM
FIRST! to buy it that is!~
4. Madgame - August 5, 2008 5:04 PM
How about the smell of that new energy drink from an earlier post.
5. Tony - August 5, 2008 5:16 PM
This reminds me of that episode of The Office where Michael Scott wakes up, puts bacon on the grill, and then lets the smell of bacon wake him up. He then proceeds to burn his foot on the grill. If only he had one of these..
6. OMgirl - August 5, 2008 5:17 PM
and if i run out of bacon how the hell im going to wake up tomorrow?!?!?!
7. A gay - August 5, 2008 5:20 PM
Bacon is gross@hell. I'd break that clock just to get rid of the bacon scent.
8. Dan - August 5, 2008 5:24 PM
OMgirl made a good point...... wtf! how am i suposed to have ane strip of bacin for the rest of my career in the morning????? so i can only live to be 40?
9. gingela5 - August 5, 2008 5:24 PM
@5...that's the first thing I thought of!!! Michael Scott burning his foot on his George Foreman grill! love it!
10. wwwwwwwEEE - August 5, 2008 5:25 PM
seems kind of dangerous... there'd probably be a surge in house fires
11. JohnnyIrish - August 5, 2008 5:25 PM
This is so awesome! I would totally get one of these! That is if you replace the the pig clock with a hot chick and she woke me up every morening by eating my bacon.. haha, Get it? I'd be getting a nice 'head' start for the day! haha
God I'm brialliant.. :P
Ok I'm going to go patent my idea.. do I have any investors?
12. Bill - August 5, 2008 5:31 PM
Hey #7, What came first the gay or the dislike of bacon? I'm guessing the dislike of bacon...thats been known to cause teh gay.
13. SmokingGirl - August 5, 2008 5:35 PM
The smell of a sexy man gets me up in the morning. Bacon? Not so much.
But just like Tesla coils, bacon has never really been my thing. To each their own I suppose.
14. Josh - August 5, 2008 5:41 PM
Lucky for you, the smell of old ashtrays wakes me up. wanna sleep together?
15. Dan - August 5, 2008 5:43 PM
damn smoking girl i did't know it was you i've been waking up all these past couple of years....... thanks for the comp though
16. OctoGooch - August 5, 2008 5:45 PM
its your lucky day SmokingGirl! i just invented sexy man-smell alarm clock. i personally put a bit of man-juice in each clock during production. then when its time to wake up, the air-tight lid pops up, and that smell will wake anyone up.
warning: do not use near a cemetery, pet cemetery, and/or within 2 miles of a corpse.
17. Hatey McWrathenstein - August 5, 2008 6:08 PM
Somewhere... out there...
Jim Gaffigan's head just asploded.
18. john - August 5, 2008 6:28 PM
lol @7
I can tell why your name is A Gay only some gay dude wouldn't like bacon it is so good
19. VoodooPimp - August 5, 2008 6:32 PM
This was invented years ago on an Aussie program called Life Support. Youtube it if possible. Funny as fuck.
20. OctoGooch - August 5, 2008 7:06 PM
give it boobs.
ill never leave my bed.
21. SluggishGirl - August 5, 2008 7:13 PM
brushing teeth is for women. im eating a strip of bacon instead.
i also fall asleep with the smell of bacon.
22. Reality Check - August 5, 2008 7:50 PM
So the bacon is not refrigerated for 8 hrs overnight and then slow cooked with a light bulb? I like bacon as much as the next (straight) guy, but this sounds like a good way to get a bad case of parasitic worms
23. ashley - August 5, 2008 8:17 PM
ooh meat!
24. rk - August 5, 2008 8:27 PM
it doesn't make a sound at all? what if you don't have a sense of smell? I guess you can drown your sorrows in bacon when you get fired from work for being tardy too many times...
i don't feel tardy.
25. Haha - August 5, 2008 8:48 PM
Muslims don't eat bacon. That could be how he caught the gay.
26. Sell Porn Make Money - August 5, 2008 8:59 PM
wake and bake and bacon sounds like good shit.
27. Adri Leya - August 5, 2008 10:21 PM
this is SO wallace and gromit. or pee wee.
28. Code - August 5, 2008 11:26 PM
OLDDD AS TIMEEE... But bacon is always relevant so it's cool!
29. HexSabre - August 6, 2008 12:04 AM
Now if they apply this concept to a coffee maker that would be awesome. But bacon? Only if I want an extra ass on every side of my body within a week.
30. anon - August 6, 2008 3:14 AM
Hehe, michael scott will still get his foot burnt in one of these.
31. Meaty Urologist - August 6, 2008 12:59 PM
I wake up to the meat every morning... my roommate's that is... dangling over me like the sword of Damocles. I hate that guy.
Damn you, craigslist.
32. Thank the Lord - August 6, 2008 7:58 PM
I'm very happy PETA hasn't commented yet.
Bacon = Happiness
33. Odogg - August 6, 2008 10:04 PM
Invent one that spits out phat blunts! WAKE n' BAKE fer realz! PEW! PEW!
34. lori - August 7, 2008 4:50 AM
omg !!! LMAO
Odogg,
That would be awesome : )
TRY to invent one id be the first to buy it ;)
35. Thumperchica - August 7, 2008 9:21 AM
So what happens when your roommate steals your bacon and replaces it with a dirty gym sock? Oh yeah, that smell will "gently" wake you...
36. Gingersnapz - August 7, 2008 2:03 PM
Nothing like a little meat in the morning.
Now here is something someone should invent: A morningwood diffuser.
I don't know about you, but there is nothing more frustrating then standing over the toilet for the first ten minutes you're awake trying to squeeze a few drops of piss out.
37. Josh - August 7, 2008 3:54 PM
sweet. they need to make a bachelor's version that whips up an entire breakfast for you.
38. Lal - August 7, 2008 10:26 PM
This is the greatest idea in the history of everything.
39. buzzkillington - August 9, 2008 5:03 PM
hate to break it to everyone, (especially the creators) but..
"Olfactory perception, or the sense of smell appears to be practically nonexistent during sleep."
http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/sleepdestroyers/a/scent.htm
back to the drawing board..
40. Andrew - August 19, 2008 8:20 AM
I agree with the first comment. That being said, this does seem like a fire waiting to happen. But, then again for something this brilliant, I might just be willing to take the chance. It's just too cool.
41. jb - August 21, 2008 3:17 PM
WHERE CAN I BUY ONE??? SERIOUSLY!!!