Core77

For those of us that just can't save comes this ingenious combination piggy-bank/alarm clock from Japan, the BanClock.

You guessed it, the thing doesn't shut off until you pump some change into it. The mild-tempered among us will break it open when we need the dough; the short-tempered will break it because it's six in the morning and we can't find any quarters.

Addendum - Another design: Clocky over here sounds the alarm, then runs willy-nilly around your room until you catch it and shut it up.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we still maintain that developing robots that elude capture is not a good idea, and the first step in our undoing as a species. Why won't anyone listen!