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Singing Peacekeepers to Sleep
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) — Getting a good night's sleep in the Balkans can be rough for peacekeepers bunking in a military camp far from home and family for months at a time. Now Danish researchers have come up with an unusual solution — MusiCure, a soft pillow that chirps like a bird and is designed to sing soldiers to sleep in Kosovo, Iraq and other hotspots.
With built-in speakers, the white pillows release sounds from nature combined with acoustic instruments such as cellos to provide a serenade designed to help stressed-out minds shed unpleasant thoughts.
Its designers say that if it works, the pillow one day could join rifles, flak jackets and helmets as part of the basic equipment soldiers carry into conflicts.
In Kosovo, 10 pillows provided by Denmark's Defense Academy have become popular among the 340 Danish soldiers deployed here, said Maj. Helmer T. Hansen, the battalion surgeon at the Danish military clinic in the province.
Soldiers can keep the pillows for two weeks, said Hansen, ticking off their benefits with the air of a hypnotist.
"You will not think about what is maybe happening with your wife at home, or your children," he said. "All thoughts will disappear, images will be created — forests, beaches, mountains. And then you will fall asleep."
The pillows are part of a trial that began a month ago. So far, about 20 Danish troops in need of relaxation and some quick sleep in the often ethnically tense province have used them to get some shuteye.
except, i doubt i would want to forget about what's happening with my wife and children (assuming i had those things). but you get the idea.
Singing Peacekeepers to Sleep
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) — Getting a good night's sleep in the Balkans can be rough for peacekeepers bunking in a military camp far from home and family for months at a time. Now Danish researchers have come up with an unusual solution — MusiCure, a soft pillow that chirps like a bird and is designed to sing soldiers to sleep in Kosovo, Iraq and other hotspots.
With built-in speakers, the white pillows release sounds from nature combined with acoustic instruments such as cellos to provide a serenade designed to help stressed-out minds shed unpleasant thoughts.
Its designers say that if it works, the pillow one day could join rifles, flak jackets and helmets as part of the basic equipment soldiers carry into conflicts.
In Kosovo, 10 pillows provided by Denmark's Defense Academy have become popular among the 340 Danish soldiers deployed here, said Maj. Helmer T. Hansen, the battalion surgeon at the Danish military clinic in the province.
Soldiers can keep the pillows for two weeks, said Hansen, ticking off their benefits with the air of a hypnotist.
"You will not think about what is maybe happening with your wife at home, or your children," he said. "All thoughts will disappear, images will be created — forests, beaches, mountains. And then you will fall asleep."
The pillows are part of a trial that began a month ago. So far, about 20 Danish troops in need of relaxation and some quick sleep in the often ethnically tense province have used them to get some shuteye.
except, i doubt i would want to forget about what's happening with my wife and children (assuming i had those things). but you get the idea.
posted by quirky at 5:46 PM
3 Comments:
that pillow sounds wonderful! i want one!
what's with this new blog image!? what a change... it's so...uhmmm...white!
yet...no haloscan comments *grrrr*
I could have used one of these pillows last night...seriously.
What ever happened to reading a nice boring book before bed? Everything has to be so dang hi-tech.
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