When you see truck drivers, it doesn’t seem surprising that most of them wear caps or hats when they are taking their rig out to various destinations. And to help monitor them and maybe even see if they don’t fall asleep when they are on the road, the Smart Cap seems to be a feasible solution that should ensure their safety as well as their cargo.

The SmartCap looks like any ordinary baseball cap although it does comes with a few added features. This includes its ability to measure brainwaves to determine a driver’s level of alertness. Measurements are taken once per second by detecting electrical activity in the brain. The painless process is undetectable to the wearer and no special preparation of the head is needed before the hat goes on.

Data is passed on to a linked device like mobile phones, allowing other people to monitor their alertness levels in real time. A useful cap to ensure safety and of course efficiency as far as the delivery of goods are concerned.

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It takes a big setback to somehow wake anyone up to reality and alertness and for Arianna Huffington, perhaps sharing a past ordeal or experience can be a wakeup call of sorts for people who deprive themselves of sleep.

Sharing how she suffered an accident traced all the way to lack of sleep, Huffington reiterates the importance of getting the proper amount of sleep. Apparently her talk was aimed to wake up the working class, most of which sacrifice sleep to supposedly provide some semblance of productivity in the financial aspect.

Sadly, while this may hold true at times, health is something that cannot be taken for granted. And for people who do not want to learn the hard way, the best thing is to perhaps think about getting the right amount of sleep above anything else which will eventually lead to one’s improved productivity.

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While many people are battling their sleepiness with various pills and drinks, here is one device that can easily wake you up, if you happen to want to stay awake. The device is the Wink Glasses. They are a clip-on device which monitor your alertness.

By counting how often you blink. Your blink rate will tell it if you are getting tired. If it senses that you are dozing, the glass will turn opaque and supposedly, that will wake you up. Not a bad gadget to have and maybe great for people who have to stay awake extensively due to work or for some other reason.

(Source) Slippery Brick

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When you find yourself in the office setting, you barely notice the impact that the usual fluorescent lamps have on you. Unknowingly, you fail to realize that it affects various parts of your production that includes alertness and being less sleepy.

Traditionally this was never noticed. But apparently based on studies, the lighting you have at the office or even your home does indeed play a vital role in keeping you awake and productive.

Research carried out at the Surrey Sleep Centre at the University of Surrey in partnership with Philips Lighting has revealed that changing traditional white-light lighting to blue-enriched white light helped office workers stay more alert and less sleepy during the day.

(Source) Science Daily

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