City Pillows created by Florence Bost, use LEDs and EL-wires to blend in with colorful designs to make these unique pillows. Florence’s inspiration comes from textile materials, colors and the possibilities todays technologies offer allowing her to create the effects she wants to achieve. According to Florence, the ‘invisible’ use of technology is the ‘real’ use of it, seeing the effect but not the technology itself.Florence Bost, founder of Sable Chaud, has acquired a unique expertise in the integration of new technologies. With a formal industrial design education and 15 years of creative research, she has acquired a multidisciplinary vision and solid design experience that puts her work on the cutting edge of soft technology innovation.
Sensorcom, not a prototypical pillow maker, decided to use their high quality headphone tech to offer sound pillows. Joining the ranks of the Cozy Tunes Pillow, Sleepsonic Pillow, and Sound Asleep Pillow, Sensorcom has an advantage. They offer two version, the Sleep Sound Stereo Pillow Insert to upgrade an existing pillow and the Sound Oasis Sleep Therapy Pillow which is the complete sound pillow solution.Sensorcom uses two thin hi-fi speakers and a standard 3.5mm jack to deliver great and comfortable sound. The cool thing is the upgrade version. This allows you to take a pillow you already like and add sound. The the Sleep Sound Stereo Pillow Insert is $69.95 or the Sound Oasis Sleep Therapy Pillow is $59.95.
Sound Asleep Pillow with a built in speaker joins the ranks of the Sleepsonic Speaker Pillow, or even the glo Pillow in the realm of pillow tech. Offered in regular and memory foam, the pillow features a standard 3.5mm jack. Extra bonus is that an external power source is not needed, as the speakers are efficient enough to run off the power from the source.The regular version costs $39.50 and the memory foam version is $59.25. Hook up any 3.5mm device and listen your way into dreamland.
My Beating Heart pillow is the invention from Yury Gitman. Uses a humans natural comfort of the sound of a heartbeat as soothing sounds. As simple as this concept sounds, Gitman uses “secret sauce technology” to make the heart rate adaptive.Upon hugging, the pillow will beat for 20 minutes. It is powered by a single 9v battery and has the expected battery life of 6 to 12 months. Due to the success of the regular sized one, Gitman learned that these were often being used for children. Now a smaller version is offered. Prices range from $34.99 to $120.00
This might be the king of speaker pillows. Sleepsonic starts off great with a speaker pillow that does not need batteries. Next they come in several styles: polar fleece, brocade quilt and natural cotton quilt fabric cover in the colors white or black.Devices can be connected nearby, but Sleepsonic gives you an awesome 9 ft extension cable! Prices range from $109.95 up to $136.95.
Are you tired of being startled awake by your alarm clock? You need a glo Pillow.Imagine being awoken by a gentle glow of light. Ian Walton and teammate Eoin McNally designed this pillow to convey the feeling of natural sunlight. The pillow uses an LED fabric to display the glowing and also doubles as read-out for the the clock function as well.
The process works by starting the gentle illuminations 40 minutes before the alarm is scheduled to go off. This promoted circadian rhythm and assists the bodys natural clock.Philips Lumalive, NYX Jacket display and other demonstrations we have see like the Jacket from Kanye West or the Jackets of Moritz Waldemeyer
This concept was awarded Time Magazines ‘Best Inventions of 2007‘. Sleep well humans….
URBAN TOOL is back. To add to their already awesome iPod controlling shirt, enter the ultimate lazy person’s gadget. perCushion is a Bluetooth enabled pillow. Now you don’t even have to get ur lazy a** up to answer the phone.The perCushion is rechargable and lasts up to 8 hours talk time with 300 hours of standby time. This device is capable of end and send functions and volume. Another great feature is that the cover is washable.
The Urban Tool perCushion is going to be roughly $535.73 when available. Let the lethargy begin!
You might think the iConnect Pillow speaker only works with iPod’s, however this is not the case. The iConnect Pillow works with any device that has 3.5mm headphone jack.
To manage your expectations, this speaker pillow, just like our previously mentioned speaker pillow is not extremely loud, so don’t expect to replace your speaker system with one of these.
Speaker pillows like the iConnect are for a bit fun with a little luxury usefulness. Actually not that luxury if you look to the price below. Usefulness, it allows you to listen to your soft tunes in dreamy moments while resting your head on the pillow.
There is no amplifier in the pillow to pump up the sound, just a small speaker and a pouch to store the audio player under the pillow. The ..read more
Diana Lin Design created the d’light Huggable pillow, a fascinating and mystical object that brings the warmth of light in the form of a flurry, decorative pillow into your home.
The huggable pillow has been presented by Diana earlier this year and is now available in a range of different colors through her online shop.
With shorter daylight and lower temperatures outside, we spend more time in our homes, trying to make it as cozy and comforting as possible. The unique shape and flush cover of the d’light Huggable pillow paints a comfortable and soothing atmosphere into our sweet homes.
Powered by 4 AA batteries, the mystic lasts for around 4 hours after which the light softly dims down and out. Fortunately, there is the option to connect into the wall via AC ..read more
Who doesn’t not want to have sweet dreams? Now you can fall asleep to to music with the Cozy Tunes Speaker Pillow. One sure way to glide into the dreamland is to plug your portable audio player into the pillow and gently fall asleep to your faborite soothing music. This may sound great but we’ve found that sound from the pillow ends up filling the whole room with sound.
Cozy Tunes is currently shipping two models, one model has the speakers completely integrated into the pillow and another model that allows you to upgrade any pillow to version 2.0.
In both cases, the sound comes out of the pillow, softly and soothing, audible only to your ears. You can turn around in your bed as you like without any danger.
