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The Night Coaster: For Considerate Snoozers

Matt Hickey — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:00:09 +0000

The Night Coaster is a small device you keep on your bedside table to host anything you might need during the night, like eyeglasses or your cigarettes or keys for the handcuffs. The neat bit is that it has a motion sensor that makes the coaster glow as you reach over to it, but not enough to wake your partner, just enough so that you can get what you need quietly. I believe this would be a great low-cost gift for the wedding of a couple you don’t really care about that much. [Taylor Gifts via 7Gadgets via Geek.com]

Cosmovoide Bed is Luxurious, US$60,000 and Should be Mork and Mindy’s

Kit Eaton — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:57:00 +0000

We spend around a third of our lives asleep… but that can’t justify spending US$60,000 on a bed, can it? The makers of Cosmovoide think it can. Their luxury bed is shaped like an egg (to either give you Morkian dreams, or wrap you up in cozy cosmic harmony or some such nonsense), has hammock-like suspending springs, seven rainbow-coloured LEDs, a telephone, and a DVD/home theatre set-up including a TV at its foot. Most fascinating? Its twin “electric relaxation bed frames,” which just get the mind boggling. That price is the base model, by the way: it’s customisable, according to its crazy French manufacturers. [Born Rich]

DIY Sleeping Mask Puts You In Control of Your Dreams

Benny Goldman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:50:00 +0000

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 good, because my sleep is too precious and my dreams are too weird to want one of these anyway. [Instructables via Make]

Pillow Ring: Mobile Naps For People With Tiny, Tiny Heads

Sean Fallon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:00 +0000

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 pillow book or pillow glove. [Downstairs Studio via Design Sponge via Neatorama]

Metronaps Brings Napping To The Workplace

Nick Broughall — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:25:56 +0000

It’s Friday – I’ve had one hell of a long week and the last thing I feel like doing right now is working. Who’s with me? What I feel like, aside from a cold beer and some footy, is taking a nap. And while I could go and crawl into bed, I’d rather just have one of these nap pods in the office to tide me over until my wife gets home and makes me do housework.

The napping chair you see above is the Zero – a chair powered by NASA technology to create the perfect conditions for napping. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well it’s not. For $3,650 you can own a powered version of this awesome napmaker. Hell, I’m getting tired just writing about it…

There are a couple of other models after the jump, although they are lacking in the pricing department.

The Napshell:

And the EnergyPod:

This is the way forward for businesses – let everybody have one of these in their office so they can enjoy a quick kip at lunchtime. That way everyone will always be refreshed. It’s the future.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to take a nap…

[MetroNaps]

Glo Pillow Blinds You Awake, Saves your Marriage

Gizmodo US Edition — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:21:11 +0000

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). [embryo via idasia via Technabob]

Bedup Saves Space by Storing Your Bed in the Ceiling

Gizmodo US Edition — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:14:17 +0000

Useful for Austin Powers wannabes living in tiny apartments is the BedUp: a bed that retracts into the ceiling. Saving you up to 30 square feet, the bed slides up when you’re not using it and can even have lighting integrated into its underside— so much more 21st Century than the flip-up closet Murphy beds.

Those Murphy beds were loved by cartoon and vintage comedy makers, though we reckon BedUp has good comedy potential if it zipped down unexpectedly during the daytime. Customisable for size and color, it even lowers to a selectable height so that there’s room for furniture underneath. From French designers Décadrages, its convenience will cost you: available from US$4,300 upwards. [Bedup via Treehugger]