It would be cool if the standard alarm clock could trigger all sorts of events. I have z-wave network at home and I can send http-requests to my server that controls my lights. So if I could make a specific alarm (like wake up) send a http-request to my server on my LAN, I would have an alarm clock that switches my lights on.

I'm sure this wouldn't be a huge amount of work to develop, but the last time I tried to program something it was in BASIC on a c64 and even that failed miserably...