Napping: It Is Alright to Do at Work

Sleeping on the job is not always seen as a good thing. In fact, your boss with probably think that you are lazy and not really doing your job. In recent years, many progressive companies have begun to encourage employees to take mid-day naps to recharge. Many of these companies even have specialized napping rooms that are comfortable and away from the noise of VoIP services and other distractions. Naps can help you refocus and re-energize for the rest of the day. It can also be a huge help to those that are trying to balance work and family life where neither place can be conducive to sleep. Although napping is becoming a more popular employee perk in some industries especially software development, there’s still a great deal of resistance in the corporate world towards sleeping on the job,

Yelling at Your Phone

There are days when those internet phone service is not cooperating and those mobile applications are not doing what they should be doing. Those days you just want to yell at your phone. There could be tech soon that lets you charge the phone by yelling at it. At least there is some good that is coming out of the frustration that you are experiencing. That's the idea behind a recent collaboration between scientists at Queen Mary University of London and Nokia. The team is working to develop a prototype charger that could replenish the battery of a mobile phone using human voices, music or even background noise. There is sound and energy all around us and we need to be able to use the technology to harness its power. Of course this idea is not entirely new because there was a prototype created in 2011. This time it seems like it might make it to the market.