1. MySleepGuardian “Guruga” The concept behind this idea was to create a companion that acts like a guardian for young children. The name is mix between the jap. short form of “Nuigurumi” (jap. stuffed animal) and Guardian. Guruga hugs the child and begins to simulate calm breathing. It vibrates to the breathing rhythm, while its…

Individual research was conducted tackling the topics of going to sleep, sleeping, dreaming, lucid dreaming, waking up and the rituals, gadgets, problems, medical conditions and facilitators/aids involved in these processes, also supported with references of science, pseudo-science, film and art. Examples: Electronic sleep mask for a worry-free train nap Dream Helmet xslabs from Joanna Berzowska -…

Inspiration Particle Design: http://particledesigner.71squared.com/index.php?page=info Lighting: Colored lighting can enhance an atmosphere. Certainly color lights are heavily used in stage sets to create moods. In a home, however, they should be applied with much restraint—and be much less intense or saturated. When overdone, colored lights destroy the appearance of materials and people’s coloring. A case in…

Description The Product is attached to the temple of the users head. As soon as it is attached it allows the user to record real life events and replay them in the his dreams. The recording status is displayed by a blue LED that is embedded into the device. At night the product activates it…

Sleepy..? Fear of sleep (“This American Life” Podcast) Sleep (Radiolab podcast) _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Brainstorming Ideas & Analysis _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Summary of the Brainstorming _________________________________________________________________________________________________ First Concept Definition Most people at some point in their lifes experence having some trouble falling asleep. Athought there can be many reasons for this one of the more common reasons tends to…

We tried to bring our pillows in different ways to breath. First we tried a ballon which we compressed and released and a rhythmic way. Then we went into the workshop and tried to use a servo to bring a body of foam to breathe. We determined that the servos are too weak for such…

To reassure the user, we want to give him the feeling of human contact. From our research, observations and conversations with others, our conclusion was that the breath of someone else must have a very calming effect. We observed across all age groups, that people relax to lay their head on the abdomen or the…

In our research, we divided the sleep process in three parts: to sleep, sleep and dream and wake up. Because we could find very few scientific facts about sleeping and dreaming , we concentrated very soon on falling asleep and waking up. We found all kinds of alarm clocks and sleep aids. After the research…

After having several discussions about the topic and the goal we want to achieve in our working group. We decided to focus on transporting real life events into the dream world. Inspired by the recent movie “Inception” we will create a fictive scenario of a product that let’s the user record real life events and replay play…

For our research we decided to take a look at the ETH Relax zone. This place offers beds for tired students. There are 12 beds with three different configurations to choose from. 1. plain bed 2. feet-shaking bed 3. headphones bed 4. music-vibration bed We tried all of them in the afternoon. But even if…