Note to MUNI: Tokyo Commuter Alarm Clock

Maybe it's because we're fascinated by its garish, antique iMac-y design more than what it claims to do -- explicably, we still have faith in visiting NextBus -- but something like this would be ideal for bedrooms and offices all across SF. The alarm clock indicates all of Tokyo’s major train arrival/departure times all while getting your sleepy ass out of bed. What won’t the Japanese think of next?

Reader and contributor Ted, who sent this to us, argues that if MUNI was tied to it, it would "be spinning backward and forward and grinding and whining non-stop, until it died." Which? True.

But still…the pretty lime green is just darling in an ugly sort of way.