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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...
In college, we called a room that would put you to sleep in 30 minutes or less a "lecture hall"
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!
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
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?!'"
... 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...
My boss is cool with me sleeping on my lunch break.
Make me a friend and I'll mod you up
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?