Nobel Prize Winner

NOBEL PRIZE

The last two lessons we  stayed working about the Nobel Prize Winners. The work that we have to do, is to choose a person who won the Nobel Prize in physics, in chemistry, in literature, in peace, in economics and in physiology and medicine and informate with her prize. I choose Gauri Nanda, who won the Nobel Prize in economy in 2005 and she is from Massachusetts.

Gauri Nanda invented an alarm clock that runs away and hides called clocky and that was the reason of the prize. 

The clocky is a brand of alarm clock outfitted with wheels, allowing it to hide itself in order to force the owner awake in an attempt to find it. The original prototype, built in three days, was covered with shag carpet to appear like a pet. After the end of the design class for which she invented Clocky, Nanda did not make any further plans for the device. However, several months after a description was posted on the Media Lab website, pictures of Clocky were picked up on various technology product blogs.

 The device functions as a regular alarm clock, except that it moves on its own power when the snooze button is pressed a second time. Gauri Nanda invented another clock called Toky similar to Clocky. It is a digital alarm clock with changeable skin that runs away on the alarm, but it is spherical, has a touch screen display with a turnable round frame around it, and receives up to over six hours of audio made by the recording the user's own voice or sounds directly to its microphone, or uploads through USB plugged from computers.

 Here you have a video: