Sleep customs vary across the world. Here in Spain we take long multi-hour lunch breaks and sleep awhile. It’s common to see old men snoozing in the public library in the afternoon.
Back in England, you can never sleep on the job, even if you are rendered useless by fatigue. And nodding off in public is just plain wrong. Enter the Sleepbox, a 2 x 1.4 x 2.3m cubicle into which is crammed a skinny bed, an LCD TV and power outlets. The sheets are changed automatically, a continuous roll of bed linen winds across the mattress, and sleep can be bought in 15 minute chunks.
The idea is to put this in places like airports where you might need a kip but don’t have anywhere to go. It could also make a good makeshift office to get you out of a crowded airport lounge (and would probably be cheaper than paying for airport Wi-Fi).
But we all know precisely what it will be used for in the real world, and it’ll happen the first time two people sneak in there together. Thank goodness for those self-changing sheets.
Product page [Arch Group via Yanko]
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