During South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, this past spring, FX promoted its new show The Strain with by-appointment private mini bedrooms with pillows and a tablet for watching the program.
Artist Julijonas Urbonas’s “Oneiric Hotel” installation attempts to recreate experiments to induce lucid gravitational dreams, where dreamers would fly, fall, and levitate. Participants in his sleepovers would wear headbands that measure their rapid eye movements and ankle cuffs meant to alert but not wake them.
Photo: Aistė Valiūtė and Daumantas Plechavičius
B-and-Bee makes stackable, honeycomb-shaped sleeping pods designed for music festivals.
Photo: Courtesy of B and Bee
At the Huffington Post Oasis during the 2012 Republican National Convention, guests could rest inside an EnergyPod from MetroNaps. Sleep medicine experts from Harvard Medical School were also on hand to offer consultations.
Photo: David Manning for the Huffington Post
The Portlandia season 3 premiere party, held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in December, played off the idea of Portland in winter with quirky displays of everyday objects suspended in ice.