Japanese pillow offers napping advice
By Evan Blass 
posted Jun 14th 2006 2:59PM
posted Jun 14th 2006 2:59PM
Until we heard about an upcoming product from Japanese Lofty, we were pretty sure that we knew all about the art of napping (we usually just take one when we're tired), but the company's new high-tech pillow indicates that there's more guesswork involved in naptime than we'd previously thought. Sporting built-in pressure sensors, an LCD display, and what we're assuming is a powerful sleep analysis engine, the pillow seems to do little more than count the number of times your head moves around at night, displaying the resulting data when you wake up in the morning. The sophisticated analysis comes into play when the pillow compares the previous night's movements to your regular sleep patterns (using its impressive ability to identify the bigger of two numbers), and if you had a more restless night than usual, it helpfully suggests that you try to squeeze in a nap or two during the day. Upon learning of this remarkable invention, we dialed up our bosses right away and asked if the Lofty pillow's recommendation carries the same weight as a doctor's note in allowing us to get out of work; unfortunately, it doesn't, so don't expect to see us in line with the other insomniacs willing to throw down a steep $390 when this gets released in September.
Measuring movement, eh? Perhaps movements caused by a sleeper's discomfort using a certain pillow?
You'd be better off getting some z's with a real down pillow than this ridiculous gadget. Yikes for $390 I could get that Wii. Oh well
Bob
This $9.00 pillow I got at shopdownlite.com probably would work just as well. lol.
http://www.shopdownlite.com/pairofquilteddownandfeatherpillows-p-902.html
Measuring movement, eh? Could it also be used as sort of a 'trip odometer' to count how many times things go up and down on it. ;-P
...yawn...
Measuring movement, eh?
Nothing beats the sleep buddy!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6141895/
Crazy japanese!
I've had problems sleeping, and have even on a couple of occasions taken time lapse photos (the problem there, is enough light), to see how often I toss and turn.
This is cheaper than wiring up your head to a laptop to see how long you are in REM. Not that I have done that.
How cheap.
We linked to your great discovery of the nap pillow. Cool! It will be up, with credit to Evan Blass tomorrow. Japan time. While I am napping!