The HP DreamScreen's built-in clock feature can show time in digital or analog format with dual time-zones and lets users choose tones or music for alarms.
Given the round-the-clock expectations that digital life has placed on executives, it may well be that holding a desk job is one of the most dangerous things you can do.
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.
The expected triumph of digital radio has receded into the future: almost three-quarters of radios sold in Britain are still analogue (digital boosters forgot about all those clock radios and car radios).