{"id":936919,"date":"2026-05-04T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/936919\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:43:16","slug":"nottingham-scientists-develop-smart-pillow-for-deaf-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/936919\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham scientists develop smart pillow for deaf community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sleeve slips over a standard size pillow and placed inside a normal pillow case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The electronics connect to a smartphone, via a microcontroller. It&#8217;s then wirelessly linked to household alarms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once slept on, the smart pillow use different vibration pulses to indicate between fire alarms, burglar alarms and phone calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Theo Hughes-Riley, who supervised the research, said: &#8220;This smart design represents a significant step toward inclusive emergency alert systems, allowing deaf and deafblind individuals to sleep more safely &#8211; and with greater peace of mind and comfort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has been an entirely user-led development, stemming from feedback from the Deaf community, who told us exactly what kind of real world challenges they face which might be solved with electronic textiles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The research team are now working to develop the prototype further and find an industrial partner, who would be interested in taking the product to market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sleeve slips over a standard size pillow and placed inside a normal pillow case. The electronics connect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-936919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116515897995193252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}