The Holidays or the season for drinking and feasting may be over but this doesn’t mean the drivers who may eventually find themselves a bit sleepy on the roads are over. And to welcome the new year, here is something neat from Japanese company Juki, something you can mount on the driver’s seat whose intent is to alarm the driver in cases where he is about to doze off.

The solution is called the Anti-Sleep Driver Seat Sheet or the Sleep Buster. It does the trick by measuring the signals from the heart and aorta through a built-in sensor.

A piece of software called “Human Tachometer” then visualizes the condition of the driver on a controller.

The Sleep Buster is set to retail next month, priced at about US$2,000 in Japan. This includes the controller, sheet and the power module. No word yet of a U.S. release.

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Here is something timely. With people expected to embark on long trips as the Holidays set in, sleeping while driving could be pretty much a concern. But not with the Anti-Sleep Pilot! Considered a modern day NoDoz, this is one gadget you can have on your vehicle’s dashboard and will keep you awake once it senses you falling asleep.

The ASP will further keep you on your toes by giving you random tests throughout the drive and will help you maintain your alertness. And by how fast or slow you react to these test, the device will calculate at what level your fatigue is. If you really are just too tired to drive and the ASP senses it, it will send off signals and lights telling you that you need to take a break.

The ASP is only available in Denmark for now but should make its way into the U.S. soon.

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When we sleep, we are susceptible to various kinds of things that go around in our dreams. Normally for some reason, we are given sign and signals on what to do. This includes business. To most, it may seem as foolish and fictitious but for others it can do wonders.

While some may call it a sudden burst of idea, perhaps one good explanation is that when we sleep, we are relaxed and not under pressure. Further, before we hit the sack, chances are we have had a certain business issue in mind and normally it can be carried onto us even in our sleep. So the result may be guides on what and what not to do.

A lot of people have benefited from it and perhaps many more entrepreneurs can get the same tip if they are thinking of what business to put up. Crazy but it can work and you have nothing to lose!

Alan Stafford, an executive coach and self-described “sleepworker” interviewed by Fortune Small Business, offers tips on how entrepreneurs can boost their creative and problem-solving juices during sleep, such as identifying business problems that need to be solved right before falling asleep, waking up slowly instead of with an alarm clock and keeping a dream journal on the nightstand.

(Source) Wall Street Journal

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