Another day, another announcement from Nintendo that isn't the next Switch. Today the company revealed that its alarm clock, Alarmo, will be available at select retailers starting this March. The announcement includes the US, UK, and Europe.

The $99 alarm clock launched late last year, but is currently only available to those with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Today's news opens that up to the larger public. The motion-controlled device lets users turn it off simply by getting up, though in my experience, that functionality wasn't much use if you share a bed. It also includes a number of sounds and themes based on Nintendo properti …

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Look, I'm a sucker for instant gratification. It's often one of my favorite things about living in New York City. This morning, Nintendo announced its $99 Alarmo clock, and when the company's store in Rockefeller Center opened a couple hours later, I walked in and picked one up. Did I feel a little iffy about paying $108.91 after tax for a plastic alarm clock? You bet. But fortunately, in my field, this counts as a work expense. (Technically, this product is called Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo - but no one is ever going to refer to it that way. It's Alarmo.)

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Nintendo just announced its new Alarmo clock with a motion sensor, and even though we're still soaking in the $100 device, the company also shared a look at some interesting early prototypes that reveal how the project changed during its development.

While the Alarmo is round and an eye-catching red, one "early" prototype Nintendo showed in an "Ask the Developer" interview had a more boxy shape and came in gray. This prototype did have an interesting feature in its dot matrix LED display (similar to the now-discontinued Echo Dot with Clock), but Nintendo ultimately went in a different direction because "we felt that this display system woul …

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It's not a successor to the Switch, but Nintendo does have a new piece of hardware to announce: a motion-controlled alarm clock. The device is called Alarmo, and it "responds to your movements," which means you can snooze it with a gesture or stop it by actually getting out of bed. It costs $99.99 and will be available in early 2025, though Nintendo says Switch Online subscribers can purchase it early right now.

It appears this is the mystery Nintendo gadget that hit the Federal Communications Commission last month, which revealed that the device features a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi radio and the 24GHz mmWave sensor it uses to detect movement.

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Nintendo has submitted a mysterious new wireless device to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this weekend, and it isn't the Switch 2 console we're expecting to be revealed before next April. The CLO-001 model number doesn't reveal what it actually is, but it appears to be an entirely new product line given the "001" codes used on devices like the original Switch (HAC-001) and DS (NTR-001) consoles.

It's tagged only as a "wireless device," not a "wireless game console" or any kind of controller like a Joy-Con. A basic diagram within the documents shows an outline of where the FCC label will be "displayed in a depression area on the …

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