I don’t know about you but I’m always doing one of three things: smuggling drugs in from Canada, wearing a shirt, or sleeping. It’s a tough life, I know. Luckily, there’s the Xip3, a shirt that turns into a backpack and a pillow when you need it. Equipped with Polartec 200 lining, it’s a pretty ideal shirt for rough conditions in nature. Perfect for that frosty morning hike in the woods of Maine.

You wouldn’t want to wear this warm shirt in the summer but you don’t want to put it away. A little folding action and you have yourself a durable backpack for a picnic. After you consumer copious amounts of wine and bread, pass out on the grass in comfort by turning your backpack into a pillow. You see? It’s like a virtuous cycle of comfort and convenience.

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I don’t know what Turkish designer Erdem Selek was thinking when creating this, but Big Brother must have been floating around in someone’s mind. What seems like an ordinary pillow is really a space-alien with a digital eye. It’s designed to let newborn mothers watch their children through a webcam when they’re sleeping.

Some would argue it’s lovely, others would claim invasion of privacy. I suppose it depends if your baby is a supporter of the Patriot Act. Either way, it’s just a prototype, so you’ll have to stick to the walkie talkies for now.

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Screw Goodwill! Designer Ximena Orozco has made pillows from old, tasteless clothing previously collecting dust. A great way to turn an ugly wool jacket into an even uglier wool pillow. Trashing clothes is a real waste and no one wants to support the broke and homeless, so this is a great way to not only avoid helping hobos but also get a pillow out of otherwise unwearable gear.

I finally have a reason to get rid of my Michael Jackson jacket and at the same time, get a sweet looking red/black leather pillow covered in zippers. I’m hoping to look like Freddy Krueger by sunrise.
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I don’t know what it is but there is something in the air that has sprung up a whole new trend of graffiti and tagging. Maybe it’s the nice weather or maybe I’ve just been letting the spray paint vapor from my nightly vandalism spree get to me. Anyhow, these stylish Spray Paint Can Pillows, designed by New York based street artist Stash and Bape, are the perfect cusion for resting your knees on when attempting to reach those ultra-low places on the wall you’re tagging.

Sorry kids, the huffing vapors aren’t included but real cans are easily obtained from your local hardware store! Just remember to use adult supervision. Each pillow measures 30″ long and will sell for $100 a pop. You can also catch a glimpse of them at the “Tools of the Trade” Art Exhibition at the Bape Gallery in NYC.

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Waking up sucks. As much as you don’t want to admit it, every time you hear the alarm clock ring in the morning you cringe. Your body ceases to move and you unhappily stretch your arm out so you can hit the almighty snooze button. Day after day you’ll be subjected to this torture unless you happen to fashion a Glo Pillow.

Instead of relying on a noisy alarm to wake you, the Glo Pillow shines a supposedly “natural” beam of light onto your face via built-in LEDs. It’s not harsh either, as the pillow starts to gently glow a whole 40 minutes before your set alarm time. If it weren’t a concept, I’d pick one up just to avoid having my shitty alarm clock lighting up half the room with its display.

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Those of you who run Linux might still experience falling asleep at the monitor with your command terminal running. The steady blinking of the cursor can be hypnotic, but sleeping at the desk is about as ergonomic as sleeping on a pile of stones. Art Lebedev Studio has whipped up an ode to the days of DOS commands with the DOS pillow.

Relive the days where you would wake up to the DOS screen, still giving you command syntax errors, despite the fact that you pressed the same command 400 time, hoping for a different result. Get your own for $36. — Andrew Dobrow

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