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Re: Pillows to help workers snooze at desk

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Post by jayd16 »

winrid wrote: post #22

I remember when we had a dedicated nap room at work, it was really nice and a ten min nap would greatly improve my productivity for the 2nd half of the day. At one point the new VP of Eng, who was fairly old, joked that "I should be the only one taking naps." They later put pingpong etc in the room and turned the lights back on. Stupid. Anyway always happy to see companies embracing naps. Much better than constant ca…

Politically you just need to call it a "quiet room." Dimmer lights, no keyboards. It's a much easier sell than a nap room and you can still nap in it.

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Post by smeej »

tass wrote: post #55
smeej wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite plane sleeping solution is to tie the arms of a long-sleeved T-shirt behind the headrest such that the body of the shirt hangs in front of your face and the shirt keeps your head from moving. No more nodding and waking yourself up! And bonus darkness!

Do you get a seat in the back row? I can’t picture how to do this without interfering with the seat’s screen, tablet holder or tray table.

The sleeves end up sitting basically at the top of the back of the seat, so they're not in the way. I guess this wouldn't work if you're significantly taller than an airplane seat, like if your whole head is above the top of the back of the seat.

Re: Pillows to help workers snooze at desk

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Post by smeej »

whynotmaybe wrote: post #50
smeej wrote: post #3

I have a skeletal deformity in my neck that causes severe cervicogenic headaches. One of the best ways to relieve them is to rest the front of my head on something, or even push against it. If anyone finds a place these are available in the U.S., please let me know. This could be a game-changer for me where nothing else works well.

Have you tried massage chair? https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Professional-Light-Weight-Th...

I would, but 1) there's major cost difference, and 2) I can't kneel like most massage chairs are designed (skeletal problems rarely come in isolation).

Re: Pillows to help workers snooze at desk

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Post by smeej »

pcl wrote: post #36
smeej wrote: post #3

I have a skeletal deformity in my neck that causes severe cervicogenic headaches. One of the best ways to relieve them is to rest the front of my head on something, or even push against it. If anyone finds a place these are available in the U.S., please let me know. This could be a game-changer for me where nothing else works well.

Looks like there are all sorts of adjustable massage table headrests on Amazon — perhaps one of them would do the trick?

Most of them are only designed to be attached to a massage table. They don't have independent frames that could sit on a desk. Unless I'm see a whole different set of products than you are?

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Post by MisterBastahrd »

I have issues a few times a year with allergies and colds and while my adjustable bed is nice, sometimes it's much easier to be in a sitting position, leaning forward to sleep than it is to be on my back or side where mucus is going to sit in my throat and continuously irritate whatever section is causing me to cough. I have a neck pillow for this purpose that I just sort of use in the same manner.

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Post by devnullbrain »

dotancohen wrote: post #57
spondylosaurus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you can find one for sale on a Japanese retailer, there are third-party proxy services you can use to have it shipped to the US. IIRC some are platform-specific (like services for Yahoo! Japan auctions), and the proxy obviously adds to the total price, but it's all legit. I've bought a fair bit of stuff through proxies.

Suggestions for services that you have used would be appreciated.

Tenso. Service agnostic, just use the provided address.

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Post by aidog »

I googled in Japanese for more information and photos because some people here seemed to be very interested:

https://www.makuake.com/project/atex_makura/

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000168.000033199.html

Theres a lot of cool stuff in the japanese crowdfunding world. Gladly hit me up if you need anything.

Re: Pillows to help workers snooze at desk

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Post by jamiek88 »

tanaros wrote: post #54
blowski wrote: post #33

This is identical to the Ostrich pillow that was on Kickstarter about 10 years ago. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studio-banana/ostrich-p... I remember it because they demoed it at TechHub.

The picture in that Kickstarter doesn't look particularly identical to the picture in the article.

In fact the one he linked is the problem this one is trying to solve!

Re: Pillows to help workers snooze at desk

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Post by boastful_inaba »

dotancohen wrote: post #57
spondylosaurus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you can find one for sale on a Japanese retailer, there are third-party proxy services you can use to have it shipped to the US. IIRC some are platform-specific (like services for Yahoo! Japan auctions), and the proxy obviously adds to the total price, but it's all legit. I've bought a fair bit of stuff through proxies.

Suggestions for services that you have used would be appreciated.

You can use either a forwarding service where you order yourself to an address with a personal code, or a proxy buying service which does the ordering for you.

The big forwarding service would be Tenso: https://www.tenso.com/en

Proxy services include

Buyee - https://buyee.jp/ (though they don't like VPN access)

Noppin - https://noppin.com/

Japan Rabbit - https://japanrabbit.com/

amongst many others.

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