Conventional alarms and alarm clocks usually wake a person up from sleep using loud noises and vibrations. While most people agree that it is often easier to just press the snooze button than to wake up, a new invention will make that snooze button, and oversleeping, a thing of the past.

Enter the Shock Clock: a ‘wakeup trainer,’ that can be worn on the wrist to help a person wake up with the use of electricity. Makers of the device promise that the Shock Clock will be so successful in waking a person up, that it will actually help break bad oversleeping habits and replace it with natural waking cycles.

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The main idea behind how Shock Clock works is very simple. As a dedicated alarm clock worn on the wrist, a person only has to input the desired alarm time, the desired waking up action (either a vibration, beep, electric zap or a combination of the three), and wait for it to work. The Daily Mail confirms that it really works, especially the zapping part. Users apparently get gently zapped into wakefulness.

The electric zap, while some might think of it as something that would hurt, is not that painful at all. It is quite unpleasant yet still gentle enough for safe use. Pavlok says this is specifically designed as part of what is called ‘aversion therapy,’ or simply the act of conditioning one’s brain into avoiding some unwanted event, like being surprised by an electric shock, so a new, better waking-cycle is created.

The “Shock Clock Wake Up Trainer will make you a morning person,” wrote inventor Pavlok on the company's Indiegogo crowdfunding page, adding that the dedicated alarm will do this in a matter of days.

The Shock Clock is cheaper than the existing Pavlok habit buster tool. It is priced at $79 for early birds who will back the product up, and will be priced $100 once it is rolled out to retail stores. The Pavlok itself costs $169.

TagsShock Clock, Alarm clock, electric zap, Indiegogo