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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. … Continued

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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 … Continued

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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. https://gizmodo.com/comcast-tech-falls-asleep-on-guys-couch-182440 Apparently, a Garden City family had a Comcast contractor fall asleep on their son’s bed, and when woken up by the youngster, the guy … Continued

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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 … Continued

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Sleepy Comcast Tech Fired

We can’t say we didn’t see this coming—the Comcast tech that fell asleep at a guy’s house has been fired. There was a time when company reps/techs could pull this kind of stuff on a customer and only receive an angry phone call in return. Now, thanks to the power of the internet and our … Continued

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Comcast Tech Falls Asleep On Guy’s Couch

Everyone here shares Brian’s disdain for cable internet companies, and we found just the video to express why. https://gizmodo.com/tuning-fork-182269 A Comcast technician came over to a man’s house to repair a faulty cable modem (one of two) after missing three appointments. The tech ten spent an hour on hold with Comcast’s central office and then … Continued

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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. … Continued

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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. The device comunicates with an RFID tag positioned in your car and only starts to detect whether you … Continued

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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, … Continued

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The Pillow That Detects Snoring – Next: Dutch Oven Support

Francebed Medical Service Co. can stop your midnight growlings with their snore stopping pillow. The pillow has a wee computer inside that will listen to your snoring and let you know which way is the best way to sleep so that you don’t snore as much. Oh yeah, you’ll just have to jack in this … Continued