There are energy drinks and caffeinated beverages galore available at most offices. There’s a good ol’ splash of water in the face that often does the trick. We’re even offered candy bars or other sweets to give us sugar “energy”. The real solution to midday grogginess may be the power nap and offices in Japan are allowing their employees to go to “Sleep Salons” to get their nap on. In this video by ASAP Science, they give a brief description of why naps of less than 30 minutes may be enough to get the most productivity out of people throughout the day. …

At some point, the sheer oddity of Japanese technological solutions to various problems will stop surprising us. That day may have come as the latest addition to the long list of creative Japanese problem-solving tech involves a bear pillow, snoring, and a smaller bear glove that monitors blood oxygen levels. Dr. Kabe from Waseda University’s Kabe Lab created the Jukusui-Kun (Deep Sleep), a robot bear that uses internal microphones to monitor for snoring. As you’ll see in the video below, snoring sounds makes the bear’s hand move towards the face and brush it with a cotton cloth to compel the…

Many of us toss and turn in the middle of the night, but how often do we do that? No idea here. However, a cool gadget coming out of Japan might be able to help: they call it the Sleep Scan. It is probably the next best thing apart from going to an expensive sleep clinic, and it won’t hurt the wallet too badly either. The Sleep Scan (SL-501) will be priced at Â¥36,750 (that is approximately $391 in U.S. currency), and it works by having its user place it under themselves while they are sleeping. Simple right? While you are sleeping, the Sleep Scan measures specific data like your pulse, your respiration rate,…