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Matsushita Designed Sleep Room

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-the-bough-breaks dept.

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."

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  1. also known as Technics Panasonic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative


    Matusushita is a huge company who are probably Sony's main rival, they are of course the parent company of Panasonic and numerous other brands of electronics, they usually like to keep a low profile

  2. Re:Polyphasic Sleep by Art+Tatum · · Score: 4, Informative

    We read about this in Psychology class. The textbook said that the schedule doesn't work long-term: even though you get more REM sleep, you don't get all of the physical rest that you normally get. It supposedly breaks down after about 2 months. According to my textbook. But they may be wrong. They're psychologists, after all. :-)

  3. Re:like a child by xyz(void) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I used to have the same problem of city noise
    disturbing my sleep. As I live in Europe
    where people tend to have no aircon it also gets
    very hot in the summer so that you have to open
    whe windows in the night, what draws in only more
    noise.
    But after working in a third world city of 12m
    for some time I learned to sleep with earplugs,
    what solved all my problems. With them I can
    sleep almost anywhere under any conditions.