narcolepsy

There are many technologies either on the market or being developed that are meant to keep us from falling asleep at the desk or behind the wheel (or even more embarrassing circumstances that we dare not speculate). But this one, unlike some of the others, doesn't look like a Groucho disguise or a steel plate sticking out of your head. The "Wake-Up Angel" appears to be going for the hearing-aide look with an over-the-ear design.

As with other products, it can be set to vibrate your awake depending on the angle you choose, according to GeekAlerts. Personally, … Read more

There are a number of technologies on the market aimed at keeping us from falling asleep, especially while behind the wheel, but they usually involve some kind of device affixed to the noggin. Researchers in Japan, however, are working on a protype car seat that senses when you're about to nod off by monitoring pulse, respiration and other physical changes that typically occur 10 minutes before someone falls asleep, according to Pink Tentacle.

Sensors are embedded throughout the seat to detect those changes and, eventually, some kind of alarm system will be included to kick in when Mr. Sandman … Read more

If there's one thing every laptop junkie can always use, it's better posture. Yet conventional computer stands that adjust angles can go only so far.

For one thing, what do you do when you want to surf while lying on your back? So far as we know, no one has invented a suspension system that would lower your laptop from the ceiling a la Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 3.

But now there's finally some help for us, the terminally lazy: A gravity-defying laptop stand that goes by the classically butchered Japanese-English hybrid name of "Easy Desk Aluminum.&… Read more