I need an alarm clock that doesn't trust me. When I'm barely conscious enough to figure out where the sound is coming from, what makes you think I can be trusted with something as dangerous as a snooze button? Sometimes, after the third or fourth time it beeps, I just turn the thing off. And that's never good.
I put another alarm clock on the desk, so I have to get out of bed to shut that one up. I usually turn that one off instead of snoozing it. Of course I mean to go get dressed right away when I do that, but the bed is on the way to the closet, and I just want to lie down for another second or two...
What I need is an alarm clock that can't be turned off with a button. I propose an alarm clock with pressure sensors built in to the bed, so that the only way to turn it off in the morning would be to get my lazy butt out of bed. Technology for interfacing between beds and alarm clocks already exists. I've heard of alarm clocks for the deaf, that shake the bed instead of making a sound. And it wouldn't be hard for the bed to tell if I'm there or not. If the bed seems to weigh 160 pounds more than it should, the alarm clock would say "Aha! There's a Peter on the bed! Get it!", and then the bed would flip up and dump me on the floor, like in an episode of the Jettsons. Or I guess it could just make an annoying sound. Yeah, that would work too.