Complex Blog » sleep mask http://www.complex.com/blogs Buy. Collect. Obsess. The original buyer's guide for men. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:35:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 LED Sleep Mask Flashes Your Subway Stop http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/10/17/led-sleep-mask-flashes-your-subway-stop/ http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/10/17/led-sleep-mask-flashes-your-subway-stop/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:29:13 +0000 treats http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/10/17/led-sleep-mask-flashes-your-subway-stop/ sleepmask.jpg
If you’ve ever spent a late night riding public transportation, then you’ve probably seen it: an exhausted passenger who falls out and ends up sleeping through their stop, all because no one wants to wake them from their slumber. Well now Pyocotan, the Japanese author behind the manga Akai Ahojiru (Red Stupid Soup), has created “Noriko-san,” an electronic mask that lets everyone know when you’re supposed to get off.

The red, scrolling LED marquee that displays the name of your stop is hard to miss, but it still isn’t fool-proof. When the inventor hit Tokyo’s Yamanote train line to test it out, people still let him sleep through his stop. Damn. Watch the test video below to see if it was worth the 20,000 yen ($200) he spent making it…

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