How about the "hotel-style vibrating bed"?  Once it jiggles you peacefully into slumberland it can shut off automatically.

> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:37:59 -0800
> From: camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: 12v programmable timer
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> My 12V timer arrived. The instruction sheet says that the "POWER"
> terminals can accept AC or DC. Since there is no mention of polarity, I
> I reckon that we got a full wave rectifier there to convert AC to DC.
> Obviously the internals run on DC. ICs and suchlike.
> 
> When it is switched on and off, there is an audible "click" from within
> the unit. So we have relay contacts. They can handle DC or AC.
> 
> Now that I have satisfied my curiousity, I admit that I am baffled as to
> what I can do with this thing. The price was right, but it sits there,
> challenging me.
> 
> Everything in my Westy is under manual control, and I like it that way.
> I cannot think of anything I'd like to have turn on or off on a schedule
> when camping.
> 
> Ideas are invited, but that might be a Friday subject.
> 
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>