Info from someone who listens to his MP3 player while he sleeps, this is way cool! I can never find a set of earbuds or headphones that don’t end up either falling out/off or hurting my ears. Now, one would ask, why not just hook regular speakers up to it? Well, the wife tends to not like my choice of music and tells me that it keeps her up or wakes her up in the middle of the night… This might actually be worth trying…
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Household
Open letter to manufacturers of household products: Stop messing with the classic pillow design by trying to get all high tech and cutesy. That means no more MP3 playing pillows, no networked pillows for "communicating" with loved ones, no pillows that record us snoring, no pillows that indicate current surfing conditions, and definitely no pillows with artificial heartbeats. Chillows, however, are still allowed. That is all. Since we'll get in trouble if we don't mention the actual product here: the Sound Pillow is just a regular pillow with embedded speakers and a stereo plug, designed by the UK's Royal National Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to sooth tinnitus sufferers (which actually makes it sound kind of useful, thus negating our whole introductory rant), and costing about $44.
[Engadget]
Yeah, cool to include it in a pillow, but for about 10 bucks you can get a 'pillow' speaker from Radio Shack that slips in the pillow case and does the same thing. They've been available for about the last 15 years or so.
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