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posted by martyb on Thursday October 18 2018, @10:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the none-so-blind-as-he-who-would-not-see dept.

There's nothing dystopian at all about these high-tech blinkers for humans

Ever feel like you're having too much fun in the office? Like your boss just isn't getting enough value out of your life? Fear not: Panasonic has designed a pair of high-tech blinkers* that block out your peripheral vision to help you concentrate on the job at hand.

The concept is called Wear Space, which consists of a lightweight, wraparound fabric screen that conceals a pair of Bluetooth headphones. The screen cuts your horizontal field of view by around 60 percent, while the headphones come with a built-in noise-canceling feature that can pipe in music of your choice. It charges over USB and has a battery life of 20 hours.

The Wear Space isn't an official Panasonic product (yet), but a prototype was developed by the company's Future of Life design studio. An early version was shown at SXSW earlier this year, but the creators of the Wear Space are now raising money for the device on Japanese crowdfunding site GreenFunding.

[...] *Also known as blinders. The metaphor we're going for here is the equipment used to restrict a horse's vision, so we're using the correct terminology, as recommended by the Kentucky Derby.

See also: Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 18 2018, @03:45PM (3 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday October 18 2018, @03:45PM (#750498) Homepage Journal

    yesterday nedspace's management asked me to stop sleeping in my office.

    The problem is that I like to work really, really late, well after the transit stops running. But then around five in the morning I get sleepy.

    I expect I'll pitch a tent under a bridge somewhere then sleep there instead.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by kazzie on Friday October 19 2018, @05:17AM

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 19 2018, @05:17AM (#750796)

    You'll just get more troll mods if you do that...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @12:54PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @12:54PM (#750885)

    Find a place in the office that no one cares about, chock the door - rubber door stops are good for this - to have a snooze.
    We have these small meeting room places that are really good once the door is chocked.
    Just lie on the table. ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    BYO pillow

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday October 20 2018, @05:44AM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday October 20 2018, @05:44AM (#751291) Homepage Journal

      ... just to have a little variety in my workplace. Most nedspace members do that, we can work anywhere than at someone's private desk or in their private office.

      So when I walked into this meeting room, I woke up the woman who was sleeping there.

      At one time there were four nedspace members who slept there. Then it was just me. Now there are none.

      Perhaps I'll cancel my membership.

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