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Matsushita Designed Sleep Room
wersh writes "Matsushita Electric Works has developed a room that helps people sleep. They've been letting their employees take 30-minute sessions in the room and so far, not one has failed to fall asleep, they claim. They plan to open the sleep room to the public next week and intend to start selling it in June 2005 for 30,000 USD."
And what they don't tell you is that they make those employees work for 72 hours straight before they head into the sleep room. Hehehe...
And they come with the house or apartment. Its called the bedroom.
In college, we called a room that would put you to sleep in 30 minutes or less a "lecture hall"
I kept falling asleep for some strange reason. Can someone post a google cache or something? Oh wait, I've found it in google...it's all ...about... yawn... snnnnnzzxxxxx
snooooorrrreee
Thats a whole load of money. Surely it would be cheaper just to take a year off work and get yourself sorted out. Or alternatively spend $30,000 on Coffee.
MSDN is enough for me tzzzZZZZzzzzZZZZzzzz
My University has one of those. They use it as a classroom for quantum physics.
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE
okMatsushita Patents the Bedroom!
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A quart of whiskey and a bag of weed has proven effective in my experience and costs significantly less.
Doesn't this sleep room remind you of the suicide room from Soylent Green? Japan is about to corner the market on high-protien food.
The 30-minute session in the sleep room -- about the size of a small hotel room and programmed with a control panel in the wall -- starts with the bed upright like a recliner. A huge TV screen is positioned high above the dresser to meet perfectly with your line of vision, showing verdant scenes of a river ambling through a forest.
Gentle guitar and piano music plays against a backdrop of trickling water and birdsong.
So is it a sleep chamber, or New Age Music Torture Chamber?
(for those of you who have a excellent memory for the Far Side cartoons - the link is to Charlie Parker's private hell)
"What do you think?" "I think 'What, do you think?!'"
This is a v. .. very.... Zzzzzzz
So can anyone else who has three kids. It's magical. 2-5 minutes in a recliner is all you need.
... what I really need is a 'wake up' room:
In bright, pulsating light, the loud scream of a heavy metal guitar solo electrifies your lazy nerves. Your back is pounded with electric shocks, zapping muscles atrophied from the long lazy slumber, as an IV of raw Mountain Dew syrup is injected straight into your veins. Before you know it, you're at work, and actually on time for once...
Dream inducers? Great. Like I don't already have enough pairs of Lightspeed Briefs.
"Dump him, Marge. He's a loser. I travelled the world / and the seven seas. / I am watching / you through a camera."
My boss is cool with me sleeping on my lunch break.
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(as a side note, Dick Van Patten played the attendant, I always knew there was something creapy about him...)
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
They're calling it "the cubicle".
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
So they made a movie theatre that loops Titanic and Gigli?
Man, do you need to get some sleep.
There are reports people can predict the future in lucid dreams too, which I really don't know if thats BS or not
Have a guess.
"Matsushita Electric Works has developed a room that helps people sleep...."
That's been done already. It was at my insurance company's place in the salesman's office when I asked him the difference between term and whole life....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Matsushita needs a machine. We have Dennis Miller.
A huge TV screen is positioned high above the dresser to meet perfectly with your line of vision, showing verdant scenes of a river ambling through a forest.
Won't that make people feel the urge to pee?
Pity our corporate overlords would rather have zombies at their desks for a full 8 hours than surrender a few minutes for a nap.
8 hours? 12 Hours are the norm, 7 days a week. And 20 hour days are seeming to pop up more often. If I was union, I'd say call my Shop Steward after 8.
Hmmm so a sleeping invention from Japan... I'm thinkin' robotic arms holding rags covered in chloroform.
1. Bring some SCO executives inside a Beowulf cluster of these freaky sleeping rooms; 2. Open a new whorehouse in town; 3. ??? 4. Profit!!!
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While I think that they probably have a point, that site is hilarious!
;-)
Check out the demo movie in the feminine hygiene section!
Great quote from the FAQ:
"Q: When I have house guests, they might feel uncomfortable or intimidated by this piece of equipment in my bathroom. What should I do?
A: Well, as long as they know they can just use your toilet like any toilet, everything should be fine. If they start asking, just tell them what it is. Suggest trying it. They will leave your house never forgetting your unique bathroom."
Yes. They'll always remember you as the people with the F'ing Weird Toilet.
They called it a "lecture theatre".
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.
in a cinema near you.
Hopefully not in the same bed.
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