Vibrating pillow sleeve warns deaf sleepers of burglars and fires

A research team supervised by Assoc. Prof. Theo Hughes-Riley from Nottingham Trent University has designed a smart vibrating pillow sleeve prototype, to alert people who are deaf to fire and burglar alarms. The device was recently presented at the Association for Computing Machinery CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, at the Barcelona International Convention Centre in Spain.

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Category: Good Thinking, Technology

Tags: Nottingham Trent University, Deaf, Sleep, Alert, Hearing Impaired