If Shakespeare knew I was about to butcher his famous “To be, or not to be” line and apply it to hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock, I bet he would’ve dedicated more time to solving this elusive snooze problem. Lucky for him, I was able to use the wondrous powers of Google to give him a break and simply find some better alarm clocks. After all, iPhone alarms only go so far.

**1. [SleepTracker](http://www.sleeptracker.com/)**

There’s this funny thing called a sleep cycle that makes you go in and out of deep sleep. When your alarm goes off, it has no idea if it is destined to halt your slumber at a time when you’ll be groggy or not, regardless of the hours of sleep you received. What if an alarm did know, you ask? Then you’d get the SleepTracker, a pricey watch that finds the lightest stage of sleep during a 40-minute window. For instance, if you set your alarm for 7 a.m., then the SleepTracker will wake you up between 6:40 a.m. and 7:20 a.m. when you are in your lightest stage of sleep.

**2. [Clocky, the runaway alarm clock](http://walyou.com/run-away-alarm-clock/)**

It’s almost too easy to hit the snooze button if you’re right next to your alarm. So what if you’re not next to your alarm? Then you’d get a version of Clocky, an alarm clock that will roll right off your nightstand so you must chase it to silence its whining noise. Nothing gets you moving like exercise.

**3. [Shape Up Alarm Clock](http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/fun-gadgets-the-shape-up-alarm-clock/)**

You like exercise and want more of it? How about an alarm clock that could incorporate it into your daily routine? Well, that’s when you get an alarm clock that looks like the as-seen-on-TV Shape Up dumbbell. Not only does it look like one, but it also makes you do thirty reps before the alarm will turn off. Get ripped.

**4. [Puzzle Alarm Clock](http://www.ubergizmo.com/2007/01/puzzle-alarm-clock/)**

But maybe you’re not the brawny type, and you’re wondering what else you can do to wake up at the alarm. Well, brainy person, you can exercise your intellectual capabilities with a puzzle! There are a few variations of this alarm clock, whether it is like a jigsaw, shape or Simon-esque puzzle. Either way, you have to solve the puzzle to get it to turn off.

**5. [Cool Flying Alarm Clock](http://chinagrabber.com/flying-alarm-clock—propeller-driven-key-flies-away—1-8-inch-screen—clock-f75.aspx)**

Wait, you like the idea of your alarm clock moving away from you? Maybe you want to try out the Cool Flying Alarm Clock. With this bad boy, a mini propeller-driven key flies up and away from the base alarm clock when the alarm sounds, making you go and search for it to reinsert it into the alarm clock and shut off the noise.

**6. [KuKu Alarm Clock](http://www.latestbuy.com.au/kuku_clock_gadget.html)**

So you’re one of those people who has “been there, done that” with all the other alarm clocks (or maybe you’ve just thrown your alarm clock across the room, effectively creating an exercise to go fetch it, turn it off and then a puzzle to put all the pieces back together). I bet you haven’t tried the KuKu alarm clock. The KuKu is a chicken that lays eggs as soon as the alarm goes off, forcing you to collect the eggs and place them back in the KuKu to silence the cockle-doodle-doo.

**7. [Laser Gun Shooting Target Alarm Clock](http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/383876928/Laser_Gun_Shooting_Target_Alarm_clock.html)**

I’m getting the picture that nothing listed so far is good enough for you. Is that why you keep reading? What — do you want to wake up every morning feeling like James Bond (or P. Diddy)? Oh, you do. I guess you’ll like this Laser Gun Shooting Target Alarm Clock when you have to use your laser gun to shoot a bulls-eye on the target that is attached to the alarm clock (that you place far away from your bed).