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The Latest Must-Have For The Digital Home: An SMS Pillow

(Mis)Uses of Technology

from the yeah,-that's-great dept

Fri, Sep 2nd 2005 11:11am — Carlo Longino
Philips researchers have created a pillow with a bunch of LEDs sewn into it that can receive and display text messages. Maybe the real reason people don't care about the "digital home" is because it's an amalgamation of stupid products like text-messaging lightbulbs rather than anything that actually might be helpful. Just think, though: you could have your lightbulb SMS your pillow to let you know it burned out. But what happens if the pillow's burned out? What does it send a message to?
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    Pundit, 2 Sep 2005 @ 11:26am

    hmm

    Sounds about as bright as Pets.com.

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  2. identicon
    viewer, 2 Sep 2005 @ 12:39pm

    Dont See The Point

    As the lightbulb is only going to burn out whilst it is on, surely sending the message to the pillow is kinda useless! Is the same thing as Windows saying there is a problem with the modem driver and asking if you want to connect to the internet to update it!!!!!

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    DV Henkel-Wallace, 2 Sep 2005 @ 3:01pm

    Cool UI feature

    I have some cool lightbulbs from Europe, where the gadgetry is more advanced. When they burn out, they don't light up! Pretty clever, eh? I guess they'll hit the market here eventually too.

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    Ben, 2 Sep 2005 @ 3:58pm

    LEDs

    An LED will not burn out for a very very very very long time.

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    Mike (profile), 2 Sep 2005 @ 4:34pm

    Re: LEDs

    You know... I've heard that, but the little LED keychain I've got burnt out completely recently. I barely used it, and now it's dead. So I'm beginning to take the "LEDs don't burn out for a really really really long time" statements with a grain of salt.

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    DGK12, 3 Sep 2005 @ 2:08am

    SOS

    Maybe the pillow can tell you that its time to get up, and maybe the pillow can remind you to make your bed.. And maybe the pillow will make being woke up by a bucket of water much more unpleasant.

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    Anonymous Coward, 3 Sep 2005 @ 7:22am

    Re: LEDs

    > I barely used it, and now it's dead.< br>How's the battery? Some of these keychain lights have sat around for years before being sold.

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    Precision Blogger, 6 Sep 2005 @ 10:25am

    You are growing sleepy, ...

    You are growing sleepy, ...

    You are growing sleepy, ...

    You are growing sleepy, ...

    You are growing sleepy, ...

    Oh, and of course your eyelids feel heavy also.

    - Precision Blogger

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