i-Sleep Heated Laptop Pillow Recycles Your Laptops Heat, Promises Sweet Dreams

Developed by Ivonne Dippmann, the i-Sleep pillow works in unison with your laptop and could transpire to be an indispensable travel gadget for those needing a little shut-eye whilst jet-setting to their next business appointment, allowing them to arrive at their destination suitably refreshed and ready to cut a deal.

Billed as being ‘an analog laptop extension’, Ivonne Dippmann’s i-Sleep pillow is described as functioning in much the same way as an aircraft’s lifejacket and, somewhat intriguingly, apparently uses the hot air expelled by your laptop (whilst your laptop’s in standby mode) to inflate and become a warm pillow though, personally, I’d want to see this work in practice as opposed to work in theory – after all, with the weight of a head placed on the pillow, it seems improbable that a standard laptop’s fan could possibly offer the degree of power required to keep the pillow deflating (and even with a valve, surely, the laptop needs to expel air with sufficient power to work against the valve?). But perhaps our concerns have already been addressed (though this is not especially clear).

Either ways, whether practical or workable or just somewhat tongue-in-cheek in nature, there’s no doubt that the concept is a good one should such practical issues be circumvented. And, as if resting your weary head on a heated, air cushioned pillow is not tempting enough (I suspect that the feelings much comparable with sleeping on a particularly accommodating breast?) the i-Sleep is even billed as coming with software that will play pre-defined playlists, with the music sounding through the pillow, to further ease you into blissful repose – though your laptop will have to be out of standby for this to work.

Technicalities aside, the idea of having what is, in essence, a warm, inflatable breast as a travelling companion certainly appeals to us and we suspect that we may not be alone in this respect.

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