With travel ramping up over the holiday season, we thought it wise to bring you a taste of Ostrich.
The Ostrich pillow, to be exact.
It’s a clever little pillow that slips over your head and covers everything but your nose and mouth. Though it doesn’t offer much by way of neck support, you can lay your head down and slip your hands in the holes on the top for a nice desk-style nap.
Travel with us, if you will, back to about a year ago when something called the Ostrich Pillow was making waves across the internet with its lofty promises of a napping revolution. But the Ostrich Pillow was made for full grown sleepyheads; no kids allowed—until now, that is. Today, you can purchase for your child or otherwise small-headed friend an Ostrich Pillow Junior. Because nothing helps kids grow up quite like the merciless mocking of their peers.
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I tend to take naps everywhere — on park benches, at my kitchen table after lunch, and most certainly on the subway. In fact, I’m convinced that I have some sort of sleep disorder, despite my doctor’s insistence to the contrary. But with or without some official diagnosis, I seem to have stumbled across the sweet elixir to my napping happiness.
It’s called the Ostrich Pillow, and even though it’s been around for about a year, it only recently made its way on to Kickstarter. It’s essentially a giant oversized hat, that stretches all the way from the top of your head down to the crown of your shoulders, with a small hole for your nose and mouth, and holes up top for your hands.
The idea is that, as napping becomes more and more commonplace in work environments, users can strap on their ostrich pillow and doze off for a power nap. It seems to have everything covered, except it appears to lack proper neck support. I’ll need to get my hands (err.. head?) in one to find out, but based on the pictures you may wake up with quite the crick.
Here at TechCrunch, one of our fearless leaders has discovered that a solid nap during the work day actually improves performance, much to her surprise.
Other companies are also jumping on the nap time bandwagon, including Google and Cisco. According to Fortune, 6 percent of companies included nap rooms in their facilities in 2011, and 34 percent of ~1,500 respondents were allowed to nap at work.
Oh, I almost forgot… Romain, our intern, also sleeps at work.
It’s the beginning of a new era my friends.
It was slightly more than a year ago when we covered the story on the Ostrich Pillow, where one needs not bury one’s head in the sand if you want to keep out the noise and goings-on around you at the office. That was still a concept then, but thanks to a Kickstarter project, the Ostrich Pillow has already met half of its $70,000 goal in just half a dozen days. Throw in $75 into the Ostrich Pillow’s lot and you will be able to pick one up when it is ready.
It seems to be a fun pillow to have if you want to catch a quick cat nap while keeping out all of the noise and light from around you. I sure hope that it will be easy to breathe in this thing though, as folks who suffer from a degree of claustrophobia might want to give this a pass. Alternatively, you can just drop a few dollars at the local IKEA, sew some pillows together that covers your ears and eyes, and you’ve got a sorry excuse for the Ostrich Pillow. Still far more comfortable than burying your head in a bucket of sand, for sure.
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