I love the look of the Ramos, especially the nixie tubes but I just don't see much of an improvement over placing the alarm clock on the other side of the room.
Edit: I use this one: http://amzn.com/B000NBCEM8
Felt it was more fun, less intrusive, and as cheap (ish) to roll my own solution.
It's a long way from the old days of a radio on full-volume static or alarm clock thrown under the middle of my bed!
You can put the panel pretty far. If your bathroom is a hallway away, this might make the difference. You cant put a regular alarm that far, you wouldnt hear it. For me, physically getting up isn't enough because you can do that half asleep. Thats where having to punch in the date helps, I think this part fires a few more synapses and gets the engine running. It certainly solved it for me.
Seriously, it helps. For years now, my alarm has been this simple function in my zshrc:
function alarm()
{
sleep $1 && mplayer /path/to/mp3 -loop 0
}