Considering how many people use their phones as alarm clocks these days, it is amazing to me how difficult it is to find an outlet.

FORBES: Peninsula Chicago: Celebrating 10 Luxurious Years With Deals & Meals

Deadlines and all their grim paraphernalia, such as alarm clocks, car services, online or phone reservations of any kind, programming my GPS, setting the hotel's always impossibly complicated alarm clock, and, yes, understanding a voice-mail message.

WSJ: The Journeying Dyslexic's Lament

While apprenticing as a goldsmith, he designed one of the first alarm clocks.

FORBES: Dome of the Brave

It has been suggested that the smartphone could possibly render alarm clocks and point-and-shoot digital cameras obsolete, as people use the alarm clock functions on their phones more frequently and the cameras in these devices continue to improve.

FORBES: 5 Things People Buy Because Of Peer Pressure

It happens early in the morning in New York City, meaning you West Coast BlackBerry addicts will need to dial your alarm clocks way back to the dark hours if you want to join along as we give it the full liveblog treatment.

ENGADGET: Editor's Letter: Looking back