Professor Anderson
ENG 1021
10 July 2013
Wake N Bacon
Entrepreneur Matty Sallin has built the world's first alarm clock that actually wakes you up with the smell of bacon. This device is square shaped and it looks like a pig with the heating chamber located at the bottom of the device. It is a functioning clock and mini oven. It operates when the person places pieces of precooked bacon in the heating chamber and it begins to cook the bacon 10 minutes prior to the alarm going off. The idea is that the person wakes up to the odor of bacon instead of an annoying buzzer. Once the person is awake, part of their breakfast is ready, bacon. This is a prototype and no sales have been made. He is requesting that our company loan him 40,000 dollars with a 20 percent stake. I do not recommend this investment because this product has certain alarming issues. Those issues are the possibility of roaches entering the chamber, a hot oven so close by the bed side, and I do not see this as a serious item that consumers would buy.
The unsanitary issue, roaches in the chamber, poses the problem of, “is it bacon or roaches that is being cooked.” We have just placed food, in a chamber, and slept through the whole night. The mere fact that a person sleeps anywhere from four to eight hours a night, gives roaches or other bugs, the opportunity to enter the chamber. This could be very disturbing for the consumer to open the mini oven and discover bugs along with his/her bacon. This would definitely spoil the person’s breakfast. This also means that the alarm clock would need to be cleaned daily. What if the individual is in a hurry? More bugs in the heating chamber.
The other issue is the mini oven generating the heat. Most individuals place their alarm clocks close to their bed on a wooden night stand. This particular alarm clock would need to be placed on ceramic tile due to the location of the heating chamber. Also, as a person