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Nintendo announces Alarmo, an interactive alarm clock with video game sounds

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The presentation of the successor to Nintendo Switch will have to wait, but if instead of a console you prefer an alarm clock, you are in luck. Nintendo has announced Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarm, an interactive alarm clock that will be available this week in My Nintendo Store as a temporary exclusive for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. The rest of those interested will have to wait until mid-January 2025. Although the distribution of the alarm clock in Europe is guaranteed, we still do not have a price in euros, but in the United States it will be shipped for $99.99.

Alarmo is an alarm clock like any other, but in addition to telling the time and setting alarms, it detects the user’s movements while waking up and plays sounds “so you have the feeling of waking up in a video game world.” The instructions are very simple. You just have to select a title and a scene, and choose what time to get up. “In the morning, the alarm will sound at the time you have chosen, playing music and sound effects from the selected scene,” explains Nintendo.

The alarm clock allows you to choose from 35 different alarms from five Nintendo games, including Super Mario Odyssey, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 3, Pikmin 4 and Ring Fit Adventure. If you link your Nintendo account, you can download new alarms inspired by games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Animal Crossing: New Horizons when they become available. Each alarm has its own sounds and images, while the appearance of the screen changes depending on the game chosen. Among the Alarm functions we also have statistics on activity in bed and sleeping habits.

Alarm has a sensor that reacts to movements and plays sounds in case the user lazily stretches their arms or turns in bed. The alarm volume will decrease the more the person moves. When the sleepyhead leaves the bed, the alarm will stop without having to touch the alarm clock. Of course, those interested should know that if there is something that moves within the motion sensor area, such as the hands of a clock, a fan or a pet, Alarm can confuse its movements. Furthermore, Alarmo is not able to distinguish between one person and another.

Those who do not sleep alone or have items in their room that confuse Alarm can always use the button mode, which does not use the motion sensor and allows Alarm to be controlled using the buttons, just like a regular alarm clock.

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