Wacky Patent: The Wearable Pillow

Have you ever been on an overnight flight or a road trip were sleeping seemed impossible? Do you ever wish you could take a quick nap in the middle of a long day at the office? Solving these problems may have been this inventor’s top priority.

In November of 2003, Carol Swift patented a well cushioned helmet that would work as a wearable pillow for on-the-go napping. The pillow has noise-cancelling and light-blocking features that enable users to have a comfortable environment wherever they may be. The pillow even has a neck-supporting portion to make sure neck cramps are avoided at all costs and daily activities can be resumed without any problems after dozing off for a while. The invention even brings the “cat” in “catnapping” with optional motifs like cat ears for the children (or the child-at-heart adults). 

The wearable pillow was invented to make sure no one goes through long periods of time without any sleep due to space constraints or sleep-distracting events such as noise and light. The only setback we can see is that, considering we already wish for five more minutes in bed every morning, we may never take our wearable pillows off.

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