More on clocks

Two posts about clocks in one day, a new personal best...

Over at TechBlog, there's an engagingly whimsical piece about the "ten strangest clocks" including a clock that's a t-shirt and one powered by water. Splendid stuff. My wife's been a long-time fan of radio-controlled clocks that maintain their accuracy by keeping in touch with the atomic clock in Rugby - it's just fun to have something that accurate.

The clock I continue to hope for and never see is an alarm clock that I can plug into...oh, Transport for London or the BBC's traffic monitoring service via my home PC, that understands my route to work and therefore wakes me up at the right time for the prevailing traffic conditions. If there's a problem on the underground, I want an extra ten minutes to get into work. If everything's running smoothly, I can have an extra ten minutes in bed. Commuters who drive could have it monitor the roads instead, where's there's more predictable variation. No why can't I find a clock that does that?