Sleep

Good Ideas: Pillow-Enhanced Clothing For Office Drones Working Late

Besides making you resemble David Byrne in Stop Making Sense (good!), this concept from Polish designer Maja Ganszyniec that turns your collar, tie and sleeve into a pillow looks very comfortable. [Portfolio Page via DVICE]

Tech News John Mahoney Mar 17

Finally, I’ve Found the Bed Of My Dreams

If my girl can’t appreciate sleeping in the hollowed out arc of a real Boeing 747 engine nacelle (fine Italian satin apparently included!), I don’t want her in my life. [Motoart via OhGizmo]

Tech News John Mahoney Mar 13

Sleep Partner Acupuncture Bracelet Is Heavy On Snake Oil, Lacks Needles

As far as we can tell, this watch doesn’t actually stab your wrist at all, which is a shame, because anything that advertises itself as an acupuncture bracelet had better be breaking some skin. Which it doesn’t, but there’s a healthy amount of BS being tossed your way should you put it on and try…

Tech News Jack Loftus Nov 23

FitBit is Clip-On Wireless Excercise-Tracker, Monitors Your Sleep Too

The FitBit’s just been unveiled at the TechCrunch 50 event, and it’s an interesting gizmo: it’s designed to clip to your clothing where it tracks your exercise activity, a bit like Nike+. But unlike the iPod/Nike combo, it wirelessly connects to its charger/basestation which sends data to an online database that tracks your performance. And…

Health Kit Eaton Sep 10

Virtual Lake Floating Lounge Brings the Sandman Every Time

Even the most crippling insomnia is surely no match for the Gentle Wave lounge. Using a handheld remote, users can control a rocking motion that is designed to simulate floating in a lake. It can also be used to manage the intensity of the sound wave massage emanating from its dual 50-watt transducers. Combine that…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 3

Deprive Yourself of Sleep and Your Neurons Will Get You High

People who are sleep-deprived often report getting a “second wind” where they suddenly wake up and feel great — though they are still too fatigued to do any major problem-solving. A group of researchers have discovered there’s a good reason for this. Sleep deprivation floods your brain with dopamine, the very same hormone that amphetamines…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 20

Phoenix Lander Crew’s Cubicles Designed to Fight Perpetual Martian Jet Lag

I’ve always tried to look at jet lag from a more recreational perspective (when else will I rise from sleep wide awake at 3:45 AM?), but what the scientists of the Mars Phoenix Lander mission have to go through makes a 19-hour direct flight to Singapore look like cupcakes. Since Martian Sols are longer than…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney Jul 29

Wake up! First Sun Warrior of the Morning Challenge Kit Turns Waking Up Into Crazy Anime Game

Japanese toy company People has released a new age alarm clock that supposedly helps kids wake up by turning them into Ultraman. It’s called the Okiro! Asa Ichiban Taiyou Senshi – Charenjaa Kitto (Wake up! First Sun Warrior of the Morning – challenger kit) and was manufactured for the Japanese Ministry of Education “early to…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jun 21

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…

Tech News Benny Goldman Jun 20

Your Sleep Patterns Are Controlled by Television

Human sleep patterns were once controlled by circadian rhythms governed by day and night. But now, according to a new study, almost everyone in the United States has a sleep pattern that’s controlled by when they watch TV. A massive survey on time management conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics shows that most…

Television Annalee Newitz Mar 7

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…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 5

Private Cloud Is a Rocking Bed (Both Ways)

Click to viewThe 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…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 31

Tinkering with the Sleep Gene

Why do our brains need sleep? And can we switch off the genes that make sleep necessary? Medical researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say that they’ve located a gene that regulates sleep, and if they can switch it on and off it’s possible that you’ll be able to take a pill to eliminate your…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 11

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…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 3

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. Of course,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Dec 28

Hack Your Internal Sleep Clock Until You Become An Android

Wired’s latest magazine has a sideblurb-o-graphic about how to get by on only two hours of sleep a day, and here’s a longer article about polyphasic sleep (as its called, who knew?) that breaks it down a bit further. Basically it is dangerous, could cause physical and social side effects, and will turn you into…

io9 Kevin Kelly Dec 26

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…

Tech News Charlie White Nov 21

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…

Tech News Msparkes Aug 15

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.…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan May 7

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…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Feb 26

Good Ideas: Pillow-Enhanced Clothing For Office Drones Working Late

Finally, I’ve Found the Bed Of My Dreams

Sleep Partner Acupuncture Bracelet Is Heavy On Snake Oil, Lacks Needles

FitBit is Clip-On Wireless Excercise-Tracker, Monitors Your Sleep Too

Virtual Lake Floating Lounge Brings the Sandman Every Time

Deprive Yourself of Sleep and Your Neurons Will Get You High

Phoenix Lander Crew’s Cubicles Designed to Fight Perpetual Martian Jet Lag

Wake up! First Sun Warrior of the Morning Challenge Kit Turns Waking Up Into Crazy Anime Game

DIY Sleeping Mask Puts You In Control of Your Dreams

Your Sleep Patterns Are Controlled by Television

Itch-Free, Temperature-Regulating, Sex-Preventing Pajamas Created

Private Cloud Is a Rocking Bed (Both Ways)

Tinkering with the Sleep Gene

Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed, a $50K Magic Carpet of Gadgety Delights

DARPA Developing Sleep-Replacing Nasal Spray, Opens the Door to 20-Hour Workdays

Hack Your Internal Sleep Clock Until You Become An Android

Bedroom Experimentation: Four Devices Exciting Enough to Put You to Sleep

Drive Alarm, In Your Ear, Keeping You Awake

Metronaps: Sweet Sleep Comes at a Price

Excubo Sleeping Jacket: For Those Brave Enough To Sleep On the Subway

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