Judging by the rash of new alarm clock designs, the regular kind are not doing a good job of waking people up. These latest two were apparently ripped straight out of Jack Bauer's bedroom.

The Gun-Operated Alarm Clock, above, will only go off after you shoot it with the attached pistol.

The Danger Bomb Clock, below, gives you a three-minute vocal warning before it detonates one of three "bombs." Defuse it with the appropriate-colored wires and you get to snooze.



Hard to believe we used to get by with a rooster.