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Nintendo’s Alarmo is cute and cozy — but it’s still just an alarm clock

Sleepy Mario.

Alarmo is a red cylinder with a rotund white button / knob on top and a 2.8-inch rectangular LCD display with a big ol’ bezel around it that makes it almost seem circular, particularly in the dark. You can pick one of (currently) five different games — Breath of the Wild, Ring Fit Adventure, Super Mario Odyssey, Pikmin 4, and Splatoon 3 — to customize how the clockface looks and sounds, so that Link or Captain Olimar can walk around the screen. (So far, my notifications have all been informing me of existing Alarmo features, but in the future, it will be used to alert users for updates to add more sounds and styles based on games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

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