There are times when you just want to become part of the living dead.  Not the zombies in movies, of course, just go on sleeping wrapped in the comfortable cocoon of your blanket, mantel clocks ticking away the time be damned.  Well, not with these travel alarm clocks you can't! 

Turing Alarm Clock

Are you good with mathematics that you can perform all operations - add, multiply, subtract, divide - in your sleep? Well, the maybe you can have one of the Turing travel alarm clocks to grace your bedside table.

It works like this: You will be required to solve five, yes, five, arithmetic problems in quick succession before it can be turned off completely.  And yes, if you get one answer wrong, whoopee, you can do it again!  Now, isn't that fun during the early morning hours?

Well, probably not but it sure can wake you up from whatever dreamland you have been sailing in before.  And isn't that what travel alarm clocks are for? 

Simon Says Alarm Clock

This is one of the most enjoyable travel alarm clocks, if you can call an alarm clock enjoyable, that is, because it will take you back to the innocent 1980s.  Yes, the Simon Says alarm clock takes its inspiration from the wildly popular rhythm and memory skill game of the same name.

You have to precisely match the sequence of lights by pressing the 4 colored buttons.  Of course, this entails good memory even when you are half-groggy from a bad case of hangover but, hey, the purpose was to wake you up and it will! 

The Sfera Alarm Clock

If you are so inclined, you can bring travel alarm clocks that need minor installation work like the Sfera alarm clock.  You have to hang it from the ceiling above your bed in whatever hotel you are in because that's how it works. When you ask for something to hang it with, the hotel staff will chalk it down to one of those harmless if weird requests guests make all the time.  

Once the alarm sounds off, you have to reach up to activate the snooze function.  It will then retract higher and higher up the ceiling when you continue to hit the snooze button until you really must get your backside off the bed to turn the alarm-clock-that-comes-from-hell-but-goes-into-heaven completely off.  

Sonic Grenade Alarm

Do you have illusions of becoming a commando soldier but are too afraid to actually kill people?  Well, the Sonic Grenade alarm clock ought to fulfill your desires albeit in a jokester kind of way.  

You just throw the grenade clock into whatever room you choose to wreak havoc on for the day.  Of course, you must pull the grenade pin and precede your throw with "Fire in the hole!" just to add some drama into your prank.  

Watch your chosen tormented try to find the pin to put it back in just to stop the blasted thing.  And this is one grenade you can set ablaze with a table lighter and not worry about shrapnel.

With all these travel alarm clocks at your disposal, your life just got worse in the mornings.  Or maybe not. It's all a matter of perspective, after all!