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Please Touch Pillow Brings Dreams In Vivid Hypercolour
Posted by Sean Fallon at 6:00 AM on November 13, 2008
Remember Hypercolour shirts? The heat-sensitive pigment made for an interesting gimmick—but the whole color-changing effect was ruined after a few runs in the wash. I would expect the same thing to happen with these "please touch" lambskin pillows—except this time you would be out $US160. Do people really put their pillows in the washing machine anyway? [Coliseum Shop via Outblush via Geekologie]
Hi guys, John Mayer here. When I saw the 
You know, even though the OS X Finder guy has a big smile on his face, I can't help but think it's a facade, that he's actually depressed, or at least bi-polar. Maybe it's his complexion. These Halloween Finder pillows are way more lively, even if they're all undead. While Count Macula and Finderstein are cute riffs, I have to say that the stark, all-white Spooker is actually kinda spooky. They're all $40, and will totally scare the bejeezus out of Microsoft's Clippy. [
The Howl Tissue Pillow is kind of ingenious, even though it's the kind of thing you would only use in bad situations. Like when you have a cold and are stuck in bed and need a never-ending supply of tissues to mop up the mucus and junk pouring out of your head. Or if you're curled in ball, wrapped around your pillow and weeping. (If you're one of those people that cry and stuff). Or you got something sticky all over yourself that you don't want getting on your sheets. Like, uh, more snot. [
Designers these days seem bound and determined to lower our productivity with products that entice us to sleep when we should be working. The iSleep concept expands on the idea behind products like the 
Designed by artist Francesca Lanzavecchia, NightMates are "soft anthropomorphic pillows and warming lamps" that are supposed to keep you company (and comfy) at night. They come in different sizes, depending on how much anthropomorphic love you need, but you might wanna stick with the smaller ones that are more like Glo-Worms—the full sized ones are more than a little creepy, like something that slithered off the cover of one of my roommate's NSFW manga collection to do wrong things to you while you sleep. [
Like the 
I am all about taking naps whenever the opportunity presents itself. The problem is that getting comfortable is often a major obstacle when there is no bed in sight. The Pilo Pilo ring from the Downstairs Studio offers a solution by attaching a tiny cushion to the end of a ring so that you can prop your head up on a soft surface. Unfortunately, those of us with freakish cartoon heads would probably find this method to be ineffective. What we need is something with more surface area--like a 
Laptop coolers are great for cooling down your machine on a desk with their fans and heat-conductive surfaces, but placing those on your thighs is just asking for sore muscles. These laptop pillows from Intelligent Forms, however, are pillows, which means they're soft enough to keep on your lap for an extended period.
The glo Pillow is an alarm clock (alarm pillow?) that wakes you up by shining a gradually intensifying light in your face for 40 minutes, until it reaches a blazing, blinding crescendo. If that sounds uncomfortable, your significant other smacking the crap out of you for smashing the snooze button every five minutes is probably worse (unless you're into that kind of thing). [
