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Introducing the Napwell
How many times have you taken a nap, woken up disoriented and then wasted the rest of your day? The scientific term for that lousy post-nap feeling is “sleep inertia.” It occurs when you’re abruptly awakened in the middle of a sleep cycle. Napwell solves the "sleep inertia" problem by gently waking you from sleep.
The Napwell is the world’s first napping mask. Designed by engineers at MIT, Stanford, and Harvard Medical School, the Napwell was created to help people nap more efficiently.
How It Works
The Napwell allows you to set your ideal napping duration depending on the time available in your day. The Napwell’s built-in timer tracks your nap, and shortly before you are ready to wake up, it begins to gradually bring you out of sleep.
The inside of our mask is luminous and gradually lights up to emulate a sunrise, waking you up at your desired time naturally. No more harsh sounds or sudden disruptions to your sleep cycles! -- the simulated sunrise allows the brain to gradually wake up so when your alarm finally rings, you wake up feeling refreshed instead of groggy.
We put an emphasis on comfort, and the Napwell completely blocks out surrounding light with a high quality, ergonomic sleep mask design. We want to help you fall asleep quickly, and wake up naturally feeling great. We call this "naptimization." (#naptimize)
The Napwell is battery powered so it does not require an internet connection, recharging, or maintenance of any kind. The light wakes you naturally, with no harsh sounds or alarms.
This makes it the perfect napping mask for:
Your Home
The Office
On The Go
Buzz
The Napwell team was honored to be selected by TechCrunch to present during the TC Boston Meetup on 11/14.
You can read about it here:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/13/pitch-off-tonight-boston/
Feedback from early testers:
"The Napwell has turned my downtime into invaluable pit stops. I come back to the job better able to focus on what I need to do." - N.M.
Check out TechCrunch's coverage of our Kickstarter Launch here!:
The evolution of the Napwell
Our very first proof of concept was literally just a few LED's stuck inside of a sleeping mask controlled by an potentiometer. Realizing that the LED's gave a the inside of the mask an "airport runway" or "alien approach" look, we sought a better way to uniformly illuminate the inside of the mask. Our next iteration had a crude diffuse lighting system and was controlled by an off-board Arduino.
The video below shows this system in action (sorry for the shakiness)
We then made the lights wider and added a timer and some buttons.
Then we switched from an Arduino to an Arduino Mini and moved all of the electronic components (including coin-cell battery supply) into the mask.
For prototyping purposes, the buttons, display, and illumination are all controlled by a battery-powered Arduino Pro Mini. We are currently in the process of designing a custom board and perfecting our patent-pending illumination system.
The Next Steps
In the past year, we've gone from concept to several working prototypes. We've recruited some of the best minds in technology and design, and our prototypes have been requested by leading medical experts to be used in future sleep studies.
We've spent many hours user testing and have refined the mask with every iteration. All the masks in the video are real. Now, we need Kickstarter's help to go from prototypes to production. To build the product correctly, we need to set up manufacturing for a minimum quantity of masks.
Here's our plan:
Risiken und Herausforderungen
Manufacturing custom products is always challenging. Great design is often bogged down with poor execution or production. Even details such as fit or finish determine the difference between something of quality and something cheap.
We have sorted out many of the painful details and are bringing it to Kickstarter with full confidence in the design and the manufacturing process.
The real challenge facing the Napwell now is production and delivery. We are working on a partnership with Dragon Innovation to make sure our production runs smoothly.
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