After months of anticipation, rumors, and hypothesis, Nintendo has lastly introduced a brand new piece of {hardware} coming to its lineup in 2025. It isn’t the successor to the Switch, nevertheless: It is Alarmo, a Nintendo-themed alarm clock that makes use of acquainted music and sounds that can assist you begin your day.
Alarmo contains motion-sensing expertise, which can permit customers to snooze or flip off the alarm with out bodily touching it. The machine may even preserve a file of how usually the person strikes round throughout sleep, whereas additionally providing wake-up alarms in Regular and Mild modes–Regular makes the alarm more and more louder, whereas Mild retains it at one set quantity.
Alarmo additionally contains scenes from 5 Nintendo Switch games–Tremendous Mario Odyssey, The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, Pikmin 4, Splatoon 3, and Ring Match Journey. Customers who join their Nintendo On-line accounts to the machine will be capable to obtain scenes from two further video games: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
A FAQ page on Nintendo’s support site calls Alarmo a “standalone machine,” and particularly says that it’ll “not work together with different gadgets,” with the Switch and its successor particularly named as examples. The FAQ does point out that Alarmo will work with any mattress from twin-size to king-size, and that Alarmo is “not a limited-time or limited-edition product.”
Nintendo Alarmo is now out there for preorder on the official Nintendo online store for $100, however it’s at the moment solely out there for Nintendo Switch On-line subscribers. It’s scheduled to start delivery in early 2025.