Clocky is the now-famous alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly. The Boston Globe reports, on December 26, 2006, that:
Clocky’s inventor, Gauri Nanda , a 27-year-old entrepreneur who graduated from MIT last year, said she hoped that her small launch last week — only “a couple of thousand” were shipped — marked the start of a big business…. Most of those receiving the first Clockys last week, in time to put them under the Christmas tree, had been on the waiting list for the past year and a half.