The Glo Pillow is an alarm pillow that wakes you up gently with a gradually intensifying light. No more screaming alarm clocks! The LED light gradually increases in intensity for 40 minutes, simulating a real sunrise.

And when you lift your head off the pillow, it displays the current time in easy-to-read dot matrix fonts.

The pillow is still in prototype stage.

I must have underestimated the almighty Jobism religion and its impact on retailers and product designers.

But hell no, I’m certainly not complaining about the new Retro iPod Alarm Clock from Firebox.com. This charming little thing allows you to wake up to your favorite tunes in your iPod playlist every morning, and serves as a charging dock for your iPod.

Who needs boring alarm bells and beeps?

Now that we have iPod compatible vibrators, cool MacBook skins, flashy gold-plated iPods and the retro iPod alarm clocks, I wonder what’s gonna be next.

But honestly, I’d prefer this to the Hello Kitty wave. Anytime.

Product retails at £39.95 and is available for shipping within UK only.

These pretty cube-shaped alarm clocks are not your average clock. These little suckers, called BanClock, have no snooze button. To shut them up, you gotta feed them coins.

What an effective way to start saving!

Dimensions: 10×10x10cm. Price: 5,985 YEN (~US$50) from tokyu-hands.co.jp.

Remember the hide-and-seek clock that was mentioned in our Top 10 Coolest Alarm Clocks post? It was designed by a student, and now it is finally available for sale.

For those unfamiliar, Clocky is a clock with two wheels that sets off running randomly whenever its alarm sounds. Hence, to silence it you have to climb out of your bed and catch it. Enough exercise to shake off the drowsiness I suppose.

It runs on four AAA batteries, which is supposed to last for about 6-8 months.

Available right now at Nanda, in white, aqua, and mint. Unfortunately, both aqua and mint are sold out at the time of this writing. For just US$49.99, you can enjoy an exciting morning everyday!

Remember the aXbo Sleep Phase Alarm Clock that was featured some time ago? DigitalReviews.net has managed to get their hands on a set. The verdict? Probably the best in its class.

According to DigitalReviews.net, the alarm clock is “far more beautiful in real life”, is “fairly intuitive”, and it does work. The only quirks are that light sleepers are likely to be woken up by the alarm meant for their partners, and that a vibration mode that is lacking would’ve helped considerably.

Each set will cost you €199 (~US$250). Not at all cheap, but good sleeps everyday sounds really worthy. Especially when it can be used by you and your partner at the same time. Get it from the official aXbo site.

If you liked the idea of the On/Off Lamp, I’m sure you’ll be glad to hear that you can have an alarm clock that works the same way. To activate the alarm on this Lexon On/Off Alarm Clock, simply tilt it to the proper “on” position. And to deactivate it, simply tilt it in the other direction.

Could this be the beginning of a slew of “rocking” on/off home gadgets? Sure sounds fun to decorate a room around this theme.

The Lexon On/Off Alarm Clock is available from May 15 at a price of $36.50, but pre-orders are available right now.

Kuku Alarm Clock
At your set time, the clock begins laying its little eggs and starts chirping away. Unless you return all the eggs into the basket, it won’t stop buzzing! A great way to exercise your drowsy brain. And definitely makes waking up to work a little more fun!
Get the Kuku Alarm Clock

Jigsaw Puzzle Alarm Clock
Alarm sounded! Wanna shut that dreaded noise off? Sorry, gotta complete the puzzle first. The puzzle pieces fires out from the clock at the set time, and by the time you manage to piece back the puzzles, I bet you would be quite awake.
Get the Jigsaw Puzzle Alarm Clock

Drag Racing Alarm Clock
Love engine revs and spinning tires? This one’s for you. The clock comes complete with working temperature and humidity gauges, lighted dial and staging lights. At the set time, the clock begins revving and warming up, the staging lights start going off in sequence and finally “VROOM!”, the scream of an 8,000 horsepower wakes you up feeling all ready to take on the world!
Get the Drag Racing Alarm Clock

iPod Alarm Clock
What’s better than waking up to your favorite song on your iPod? Loud songs, gradually loudening songs, or even birds chirping, your pick. The clock also features a cool dock, stereo speakers and a built-in FM/AM radio.
Get the Hammacher Schlemmer iPod Alarm Clock

Floating Message Alarm Clock
This neat alarm clock flashes eight LEDs at 16 times per seconds to display a constant 200 characters message in the air. Perfect for waking up your significant other with a naughty message or two.
Get the Brookstone Floating Message Alarm Clock

Sight, Sound and Scent Alarm Clock
Thirty-minutes before your wake-up time, the light on this clock gradually brightens, while releasing faint aromatherapy scents and producing soft nature sounds. And finally at the set time, a buzzer sounds to make sure you wake up. If the combined “sight”, “sound” and “scent” is still unable to wake up you, I guess an extra “kick” from your family members would be required.
Get the Hammacher Schlemmer Peaceful Progression Wake Up Clock

Hide-and-Seek Alarm Clock
How about a little game of hide-and-seek every morning? Every time you hit the snooze button, the clock rolls off to hide. And when the alarm sounds again, you would have no choice but to get up and seek out the clock to off it for good.
Get the Clocky Hide-and-Seek Alarm Clock

Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock
The Axbo alarm clock analyzes your sleeping stage via the wireless wristband, and decides an appropriate time that is close to your set time to wake you up. It is claimed that waking up at the right time this way could let you wake up feeling more refreshed.
Get the SleepTracker Alarm Watch

Projection Alarm Clock
This Ferrari-branded alarm clock is able to project a logo of our favorite horse together with the current time onto the wall or ceiling. Interesting twist to time-reading! And when it’s time to wake up, the clock greets you with the sweet sound of a Ferrari roar. Better if you got the real deal sitting outside your house waiting.
Get the Ferrari FSP301_Maranello Projection Alarm Clock

Wooden Alarm Clock
The time on this clock seems to mysteriously appear on its smooth wooden surface. But it is in fact being shone through a layer of wood that is very thin. With no visible controls and buttons, the clock is perfect for minimalist lovers.
Get the Wooden Alarm Clock

Related: TechEBlog’s Top 10 Strangest Clock

I’m sure most of you realize this. Waking up feeling refreshed is not a matter of how much you sleep. It’s about waking up in the correct stage of your sleep cycle. Here’s a great article explaining sleep cycle in detail. In short, if you want to wake up feeling refreshed, aXbo Sleep Phase Alarm Clock can help.

To use, simply put on the wireless wristband, set the time you need to wake up no matter what, and the aXbo alarm clock will attempt to detect the right time to wake you up, within a specified time window (e.g. 30 minutes).

The obvious advantage over similar products like SleepTracker, is that the alarm won’t get muffled when you tuck your hands under the pillow. The aXbo also runs on mains and/or batteries, eliminating the problem of the alarm running out of juice in the middle of the night. And as a bonus, the aXbo also comes with 3 sleep-inducing melodies which automatically stop when aXbo notices that you’re asleep. Brilliant!

The aXbo alarm clock is available for pre-order now. If your sleep’s worth more than €199 (US$244), then the aXbo alarm clock is for you!