The Magic Flute

There's very little joy in waking up on a Friday morning at 6:45 am to the not-so-pleasant racket of your iPhone going off. Even worse if you're staring at some blinking red numbers oppressively beeping out of some cheap plastic radio. Enter the BeoTime, made by Danish a/v outfit Bang & Olufsen. B&O is like the Hermès of home audio - they both create stunningly beautiful, unapologetically expensive objets of the utmost quality. This piece is no exception. Made to resemble a flute, this combo alarm/remote can act as a sleep timer for all your other B&O products, that is, assuming you have an arsenal of $11,000 CD changers. It also has a clock! Though perhaps at its current price, I'll be sticking to the iPhone for now. (Marimba, anyone?) Oh, and by the way... TGIF.
Bang & Olufsen BeoTime, $375, bang-olufsen.com