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DIY Sleeping Mask Puts You In Control of Your Dreams
There's a Lucid Dream Machine sleeping mask on Instructables that pulses LEDs in your eyelids four hours after you fall asleep, waking you up just enough to notice your dreams and control their outcomes. The mask requires a fair bit of soldering and programming experience, so it isn't for DIY luddites like me. Which is good, because my sleep is too precious and my dreams are too weird to want one of these anyway. [Instructables via Make]
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Itch-Free, Temperature-Regulating, Sex-Preventing Pajamas Created
If pajamas get itchy when you wear them to bed, I have a great solution: sleep naked. If that's not an option for a self-hating person like yourself, some fancy new PJs have been developed that are totally "itch-free" and will even regulate your temperature. They're made from a fabric called Dermasilk, which is apparently really comfortable, and judging by the picture will make you look pretty ridiculous. They were developed for Travelodge, so next time you're staying at a really cheap hotel maybe you'll get a complimentary set of these things. [Telegraph via Spulch]
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Private Cloud Is a Rocking Bed (Both Ways)
The Private Cloud is a patented rocking bed by German designer Manuel Kloker. They don't tell the price, but it is real. You buy it and it's supposed to be all like, you know, wheeeeee, and then whoooooo, and then one goes like oh, what about and you are like hmmmyes, which gets into a hummmm oooh hmmm oooh mmmm gooodie and then the other is like oooohNICEyeslikethat and you are both like awwyeah and the bed is doing creak creak creak and suddenly you find yourself into a splooch-flap-splooch-flap-splooch-flap kind of messy situation and the bed keeps going creek-creak-creek-creak-creek-creak and then it's all gets into a ooooooh-my-godddd-SPLASSSSH-bufffff pant pant pant explosion which ends in a few smooch smooch smooch and zzzzzzzz.
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This Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed by Leggett & Platt looks like the crib of the century, and we're not even finished with the first decade yet. First of all, it keeps an eye on what you're doing all night long, diagnosing your movement and breathing patterns, and even sensing that buzz-saw snoring that keeps everybody in the house awake all night. It claims to be able to reduce snoring in mild to moderate cases by elevating your torso a few degrees. Good luck with that. But that's just the beginning of this complete lap of luxury, equipped with gadgets from head-to-toe.
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Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed, a $50K Magic Carpet of Gadgety Delights
This Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed by Leggett & Platt looks like the crib of the century, and we're not even finished with the first decade yet. First of all, it keeps an eye on what you're doing all night long, diagnosing your movement and breathing patterns, and even sensing that buzz-saw snoring that keeps everybody in the house awake all night. It claims to be able to reduce snoring in mild to moderate cases by elevating your torso a few degrees. Good luck with that. But that's just the beginning of this complete lap of luxury, equipped with gadgets from head-to-toe.
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DARPA Developing Sleep-Replacing Nasal Spray, Opens the Door to 20-Hour Workdays
Those geniuses at DARPA, the Pentagon's research arm, are hard at work on a new nasal spray that could make sleep obsolete. It's called Orexin A, and just a couple snorts of it could allow you to be awake and alert for tens and tens of hours straight with no negative side effects. More »
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Okay, you caught us. We've been sleeping on the job, but only because we want to help you, dear reader, to get a better night's sleep and ease out of bed the next day, no worse for the wear. Come along with us into the world of sleep-enhancing and wakeup gadgets, where there are snake-oil salesmen trying to sell you a sack of goods, and others peddling products that actually work. We're here to help, testing out this stuff, subjectively determining which of these devices are legit, and which ones merely add pointless bells and whistles to your nightly cycle. Here we separate the best from the rest, searching for the perfect devices to help us sleep, perchance to dream.
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Bedroom Experimentation: Four Devices Exciting Enough to Put You to Sleep
Okay, you caught us. We've been sleeping on the job, but only because we want to help you, dear reader, to get a better night's sleep and ease out of bed the next day, no worse for the wear. Come along with us into the world of sleep-enhancing and wakeup gadgets, where there are snake-oil salesmen trying to sell you a sack of goods, and others peddling products that actually work. We're here to help, testing out this stuff, subjectively determining which of these devices are legit, and which ones merely add pointless bells and whistles to your nightly cycle. Here we separate the best from the rest, searching for the perfect devices to help us sleep, perchance to dream.
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12:00 PM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By Charlie White
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Latest by n/a: Regarding the backlight brightness on the Neverlate Executive - Gizmodo received a pre-production unit for review. We reduced the brightness on the final product prior to production. Thanks for your interest! Adam B. Hocherman, President, American Innovative, more »
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Drive Alarm, In Your Ear, Keeping You Awake
This unusual-looking gadget is worn behind the ear, and wakes you up if you start to catch some Z's on the highway. It constantly measures the angle your head is resting at, and vibrates if you tip forward. Of course, if you fall asleep and lean back into your headrest, then it will happily let you careen off the road to your fiery, but restful, death. More »
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Metronaps: Sweet Sleep Comes at a Price
The EnergyPod by Metronaps promises to "improve employee morale while boosting the bottom line" by encouraging powernapping at work. It's basically a jazzed-up recliner with a blast shield that provides a "semi-private acoustical and visual environment." When it's time to wake up after 20 minutes the chair starts buzzing and beating your face with lights. Gently, of course. Not so gentle is the price: $8000. More »
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Excubo Sleeping Jacket: For Those Brave Enough To Sleep On the Subway
Should, for some reason, you choose to sleep on public transportation, you'll appreciate this weird jacket thing that recently won an industrial design competition. Dubbed the Excubo, the jacket has a what I can only describe as a really big popped collar that's used to cushion and hold in place the wearer's neck. Mr. Big Collar also provides a bit of privacy, so when you're on the F train heading out to the middle of Queens in order to pick up some party favors you'll be able to nap somewhat anonymously. Though I must say, I don't see how such a unique design won't draw at least some attention from the peanut gallery. More »
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Comcast Contractor Falls Asleep Twice On Customer's Bed
If the Comcast guy falling asleep on a guy's couch wasn't enough to get the company to warn their techs NOT to fall asleep on the job, this surely will. More »
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Electric Futon Better Than Motel Magic Fingers
I slept on a ratty old imitation Japanese futon through years of college, and my neck and back still haven't forgotten the spongy cotton bed. I might try one again, but only if it's Panasonic's $2000 Programmable Pleasant Sleep Mattress. Hit the "Good Night" button and the 8 computer controlled airbags rise and fall sequentially over 10 minutes, stretching out your bod. There's even a foot warming function so you can lose the socks at night. Just make sure you don't activate the tentacle penetration mode, or you'll be sorry. More »
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Sleepy Comcast Tech Fired
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Comcast Tech Falls Asleep On Guy's Couch
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Lofty's Useless Sleep-Analyzing Pillow
Japanese Lofty has announced pillow that will analyze the depth and quality of your sleep by head movement. Maybe I'm just an old-timer but I prefer to wake up and determine how well I slept based upon how grumpy I am. If you didn't sleep well the pillow will suggest taking powernaps throughout the day. And if you consistently have problems sleeping well, the pillow will suggest drinking heavily. This product will be out later this year for roughly $390. More »
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Driver Fatigue Bracelet
We were pretty frakin' tired waking up at 5:30 in the morning to hack through LA traffic to get to E3 last week. This alert driver fatigue wrist device could have saved us from all those near-misses. More »
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Live From CES: Delphi's Driver No-Doze
This driver sleep monitor has been talked about plenty before, but it was fun to see it in action in Delphi's booth. It finds your eyes in an instant, and then bleats when your lids are closed for more than a few seconds. It would have to be installed in the car's driver-side dashboard display, but I was assured that it would not require a new adjustment for each driver. Anyone seen this tech used in a real vehicle yet? More »
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