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Skilled procrastinators learn to silence even the most complicated bedside alarms while barely waking up. While some alarm clock designers have reacted by making alarms increasingly more difficult to silence, Victor Johansson's Tangible Alarm wants you to wake up when you want to wake up. The alarm is actually an accessory to use with a cell phone's alarm. It's essentially a finished piece of wood with three sectors that contain sensors to detect a phone. Moving a phone to the center segment makes the alarm active, one side is snooze, and the other turns the alarm off for good. [via Design Milk]