For the past week my alarm has gone off, as usual, at 5.30am. Words cannot describe how much the monotonous digital sound that infiltrates my ears every morning upsets me.

I’ve tried my fair share of alarm clocks from the old fashioned bell that kept me awake with its incessant ticking to a radio alarm that made me jump out of my skin when it blared out in the morning.

Now, dependent on a sponsor, there may be a new alarm clock coming on the market.

My search for a new alarm clock flagged up a piece in the Metro which revealed the ‘Wake n’ Bacon’ alarm clock created by Matty Sallin from New York.

Turning itself on 10mins before you’re due to wake up it slowly cooks bacon and wafts the scent around your room.

Can you imagine waking up to the scent of bacon every day. The delicious scent of sizzling bacon emulating from a wooden, piggy looking, bread bin with a tiny digital clock.

My first thought was that it was an ingenious idea. Waking up to cooked bacon every day would be amazing. And then I realised that waking up to cooked bacon every morning would not be amazing at all. The same smell everyday as you wake, slowly clinging on to your bed covers n seeping into the walls…gross.

Personally I cannot see how a scent alarm would work, but then again I couldn’t see how the light alarm clock would work, even though reports show it does.

I can always be guaranteed to sleep through until midday and breakfast at the weekend. The thought of having to sniff bacon at 5.30 every morning already wants to make me gag.

Bacon lovers knock yourselves out. Unfortunately bacon flavoured sweat is not something I have ever aspired to achieve. Mornings may not be as filling, but then again, who wants to eat bacon every day anyway?!