Written on October 7, 2008 – 11:42 am | by Maria Mihale |


Whether you like it or not, you’re one of those guys whose lives are dependent on Web sites and who can’t conceive a day without clicking to their favorite news online publications. There’s nothing that can’t be solved without a click and the lack of Internet connections could easily get the proportions of a disaster.

Spending so much time in the company of your laptop, you surely got the chance to experience a short nap at your desk, in the middle of important projects that needed to be finished for the next day. Almost every night your eyes get heavier and your head falls on your laptop or, if you have the time, you push your laptop aside and uncomfortably turn your folded arms into pillows. It doesn’t matter after all, because either you choose your laptop or your hands, they both make horrible pillows. Sleep is luxury these days, and there’s no doubt about it.



Maybe this is the reason why Ivvone Dippmann designed the iSleep pillow, trying to convert the uncomfortable piece of plastic and metal into a place to rest your head. You should not need to worry about putting the weight of your head on your laptop, because the iSleep attaches to the laptop’s exhaust vent and the air inflates for some nice padding on the iSleep. A valve lets you adjust firmness.



When you close the laptop an air cushion which is connected by a valve with the fan of the computer blows itself up. This way, whenever your computer is in the “sleep mode”, warm exhaust air is blown into the pillow. Because the material is coated with Latex at the inside, the supplied warm air can be kept for a longer time. In order to interrupt the heat supply, the only thing you should do is to open the laptop again.

Not only is the pillow warm, but it has an integrated speaker that plays a selection of your music for as long as you’d like to nap for. The playlist can be individually created or is automatically generated by the program.



There is even an alarm tone to wake you up when needed, an increasingly annoying tone, as a matter of fact. The waking time, the waking tone and the distances of the repeating waking noise are individually adjustable. It would probably be a good idea for the pillow to rapidly deflate itself and slam your head down onto your laptop so that you don’t find it hard to wake up, but some damage can be caused both to your laptop and to your head, so maybe it’s better to make an effort to get yourself back on track.

iSleep is currently just a concept, but it would be perfect for those who don’t have enough spare time to sleep and steal a couple of minutes of their working time in order to take some rest.

(Source Yanko)