Noriko-san subway sleeping mask lets other passengers know to where to wake you, looks really cool
By Paul Miller 
posted October 19th 2008 4:55AM
posted October 19th 2008 4:55AM
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i see the main use for this as setting the screen to say the last stop of the line and putting it on some sleping guys head
that is if you could afford to lose them, regularly...
This is a typical case in which you'll look less stupid by going low tech: Just hang a sign around your neck saying:" I AM A JERK - Please wake me up before (.....)"
You'll save your $$$ too
Why not hook up a GPS too it with a processor that will alert you when you are within 300 meters of your destination?
Oops, one too many ooo's in the "too" above.
Meh. I doubt Japan has the same crime rate as the cities the author is implying in this article....
Well something like that might be useful for blind people.
I think blind people would have more respect for how they look than to wear something like that.
Something just occured to me, I don't know if GPS works that far underground.
Is there something else like the train rf system that they could pick up to indicate their location?
LOL. this is incredible.
"a problem we're usually too drowsy to consider at 2am in the morning."
Too bad the trains all stop running before 1.
"2am in the morning"
What about those trains running at 2am in the afternoon?
ah ha ha ha!-- what I need is something like this that I can wear at work so that when my boss comes around he'll read-- "Don't wake me up until quitting time, ya bastard, I'm dreaming about work!"
(I love it. Anybody want lay odds as to whether this poor guy has a girlfriend or not??)
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Okay, gps wouldn't get that deep underground but there could be perfectly a workaround from the tube company.
Or maybe there could be a bluetooth or wi-fi information service which could interface with it telling it's position. Better anyway than count on other commuters, heuaheuahe.
its just a really old chindogu, been done better before
Haha, I'd just go with the strategy kids use at the honour's college lounge - tape a note to your face with the time/stop you want to be woken at. Seems to work for them.
200 in parts? That's a lot more than it needs to be. You could simplify that, use a different LED and a basic PIC processor and have it be a LOT cheaper than that. That's a little stupid IMHO.
I was going to wake you up when you got to your stop, but you just looked to PEACEFUL sleeping there...
It leaves us with the question of if everyone on the subway is sleeping who will wake you up?
I think postir note on your face is way more cost effective, and no one is actually gonna wake you up, unless it's to laugh at you.
I remember seeing something on tv a while back about slareymen actually using signs around there neck with their station on it and
at least during the show it was being honored.
I agree with the general honesty of the average train rider, of course they have MORE than the average butt pinchers,porn readers (Manga) on the trains
Around the world, around the wooorld..
around the world, around the woooorld
Folks,
I have similar thoughts like some of you and my takes...
* Why bother to spend $200 to get the attention from the good samaritan while hanging a big cardboard sign may achieve the same? I know, it's just the fun to invent new, cool, gadgets but I would make it "cooler" with animation besides just dot-matrix one-line text.
* I don't know if he particularly picked Yamanote line for his experiment or not. It's a circular route and perhaps even if he missed the Mejiro station without the filming crew, he'd eventually get there or someone would wake him up in the next round. But by then, he'd missed the connecting train if getting too late.
* How many of you would wake yourself up if fall asleep on the train/bus? I rarely take the transit these days, but back then I always tend to have some kind of adrenaline rush / just wake up myself suddenly when my stop is upcoming.
It's an artistic expression, and a way to get famous on the internet, it's not meant to be all that practical.
EPIC FAIL, how lame, this looks ridiculous and I'm sure no one would approach someone wearing such a silly looking "sleep Goggle" I wouldn't...maybe with a taser, that ought to wake him up.....J/K but seriously.....dumb!
This would be great, until everyone gets one, and no one is paying attention to anyone else's glasses because they're all sleeping.
poor otaku............ should have stayed home any way...
that's what i thought when i first looked at it... looks so cool!..
scroll message ".........please wipe my drool......"
We are the Borg!
I can figure a better and less dorky idea than that. Cell phones with GPS can run a small program that compares it's current location to it's destination. When it comes in certain radius of the destination, an alarm goes off. This does not even have to be done with a GPS, you can use cell tower triangulation. In fact it's been done already on many Nokia phones without a GPS. There goes that brilliant idea.
Mean as hell, but back in the day, I would catch people sleeping against the window of the train and SLAM the window with my hand as the train was pulling out. Scare the shit out of them... fun times in NYC.
It's actually a "chindogu" -- the modern Japanese art of wacky, but not necessarily practical ideas. A version of this has been around at least a decade, since appearing in 1995's "101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions"
You can see the lo-tech concept: http://www.chindogu.com/chindogu/chin7.html