The Latest Must-Have For The Digital Home: An SMS Pillow
from the yeah,-that's-great dept
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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Dont See The Point
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Cool UI feature
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LEDs
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SOS
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Oh, and of course your eyelids feel heavy also.
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