I’m reading this article on weird tie-in merchandise, and the Thor barbell/alarm clock makes me think … a barbell alarm clock with some sort of internal gyroscope and accelerometer that wouldn’t turn off until you did a certain number of reps would be a pretty cool invention.

I’m not worried about you ripping off my idea, go ahead. If there’s one thing I learned from reading Popular Mechanics as a kid it’s that every ridiculous idea for an alarm clock was already patented by 1953 at the latest and no one wants to buy them anyway.