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Posts tagged “sleep”

DOoP Multi Sensory Alarm Knows How Long You've Slept

It's a known fact that most adults don't get enough sleep. With jobs, kids, and our daily occupations, sleep seems to be the last thing on our minds. In other parts of the world, naps have always help...

Sleep Blaster Alarm Turns Off When You Yell

Are you a grouchy morning person? A person who tends to fall asleep with their laptop nearby, bedside? Someone who like to yell at things? If you said "yes" to any or all of these questions, the Sleep...

Computers in the Bedroom? Next to the Bed?!

It's usually a last-resort spot that's result of a too-small bedroom or an awkward floor plan. But are there any advantages to keeping the desk next to your bed?...

Does Tech that Go Bump in the Night Keep You Up?

If you've got gadgets that stay on even while you rest; like the computer, a modem or even the television; you've probably battled the dreaded 'standby' light. It has the ability to fill an otherwise ...

Zeo: The Personal Sleep Coach

If you've ever suffered from insomnia, you know how debilitating it can be to spend a night tossing and turning in your bed. You go to bed tired and you wake up tired. Zeo has thought of a way of help...

Do Your Gadgets Keep You From Sleep in Total Darkness?

Are you afraid of the dark? Didn't you love that show? Ok, so we digress. The real point of discussion here is whether or not you're the kind of sleeper that hits the pillow with nothing less than com...

Look! Pixel Perfect Sleeping Eye Mask

All we can say is adorrrrrable (and that's with a french accent mind you)! What better way to transition from computer to bed than with a pixelated eye mask? But to have these you'd also have to br...

Turn off the Late Show and Get to Sleep on Mixtape Pillows

Thanks to our post "Do You Plug in Before Bed?," we know that a lot of you poke around the Web or watch some quality VH1 Celebreality before you hit the pillows (The shows keep coming back, people, s...

Where Your Laptop's Power Goes

When you're almost out of juice and reach for your laptop's power cord, you just see two things: your power-draining thousand-dollar hunk of metal (couldn't it keep a three-hour charge last year?) and...

Internet Addiction: It's Real and We Think We Have It

Are you addicted to the internet? How do you know? We figured out that we were hooked when we found ourselves refreshing a blog page over and over several times a day to try and read new posts as soon...

iSleep: Using Your Laptop To Wake Up In an Analog Way

iSleep is an innovative concept by the German designer Ivonne Dippman. It combines features of your laptop that you wouldn't think about combining. The basic concept is to provide users with a useful ...

Eco-Button Blasts Your Unit Into Hypersleep

Don't you wish saving the world was easy? Don't you wish you could just push a button and drastically reduce your energy consumption? Well, you can. One push of this Captain Planet-themed button activ...

Polynapping Makes its Way Into Our Tech

If you've never heard of polyphasic sleep or polynapping, let us break it down for you: It's a sleep schedule dreamed up by the Renaissance Man, Leonardo DaVinci, that gives the user a solid 21-hour d...

The NapBook: A Laptop Case that Helps You Catch Z's

As a warning: We don't suggest sleeping on the job. That said, we do relate to the overwhelmingly sleepy feeling that comes over a person after way too many hours starting at a computer screen. If you...