Here is an idea whose time has come. Aux armes! We need to remove the barriers to napping!
Olivia Vanni at BostonInno explains the revolutionary new Sleepbox concept.
“Sleepbox, a startup that’s recently set Boston roots, is making our wildest dreams come true: You will soon be able to sleep soundly and safely in any public place conceivable. As the name implies, the company has developed cozy, technologically decked-out cabins that can be set up just about anywhere — in airports, offices or downtown metropolitan areas — and rented by folks looking to catch some Zs.
“How did this visionary venture come about? According to Mikhail Krymov, CEO of Sleepbox and research fellow at MIT, he and his business partner Alexey Goryainov started it as a theoretical side project for their architecture firm Arch Group. The two professionals travel a lot for work and were constantly subjected to flight delays and layovers where all they could do was wish for a comfortable, private place to rest. From their personal experience, they created an initial design for Sleepbox. But it was meant only as a concept, at first.
” ‘It was just a design idea, but then it was published — it was actually published quite a few times — we started receiving requests and orders from all over the world,’ Krymov told me. …
“There are some customers who are buying them for noncommerical uses — say, companies installing them in their offices for employees to use for free. However, there are clients who buy them with the intention of charging people to rent them, like airports and municipalities. …
” ‘I really want people to be more happy, productive and healthy by having enough sleep, and hope that our solution will help,’ Kyrmov said.”
Ye-es!
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Photo: Mikhail Kyrmov
I’d be up for this on days with a long layover between flights. Very cool. Cheers!
15-20 minutes is all I need, no matter how tired.
I’m not sure if I’d use it to just sleep or a place to chill and get away from the craziness of the terminal. Naps are good!
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I am a 100%, total, true believer in naps so I think this is brilliant!
At my old job, there was a nap room for a while. I hardly ever needed it, but when I did, wow! Alas, they “paved Paradise, put in a parking lot.” It’s now blended into a conference center.