SleepPhones® Blog
New Design SleepPhones
Our pretty recycled blue SleepPhones have arrived! They will be available for sale by this weekend. I'm still designing the instructional brochures for these. This is the newest design of...
Pictures from the Entrepreneurial Women's Expo.
About 2 weeks ago, SleepPhones attended a local women-owned business expo. It was there that I decided to start keeping a blog for SleepPhones. Here, Gina and I set up our expo booth. Gina, one of...
Third Prototype
We tried a variety of designs before settling with the prototype version we ended up with. This picture shows the first headband headphones. I didn't own a sewing machine at the time, so I was...
Second Prototype
Here are a few more initial prototype pictures. More headband configurations. Here is the top of the head band. This is the sleeping cap configuration. I just wasn't used to wearing a night cap...
First Prototype
Hehe... this is the first prototype for SleepPhones. Nothing like it actually looks now. It was made with flannel sewn down around a plastic headband. We used some giant speakers we bought from...
Local weather: Record breaking early season snow falls
It started snowing October 15th and will continue to snow until October 17th. We've had 6 inches already, and many people around town are out of power. When the trees still have lots of leaves,...
Malta, English-Speaking Vacation Spot in Mediterranea Sea
Malta? Where in the world is that? I've only heard of the Maltese Cross. Apparently, Malta is in the Mediterranean, near Italy, Sicily, and Northern Africa, and it speaks English! Well, SleepPhones...
Grammar Girl and SleepPhones
Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty, author of Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing and her new book The Grammar Devotional: Daily Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl, is going...
RANA-Medical: Our First Distributor in Canada!
RANA-Medical is a sleep apnea clinic service in Canada. They will be selling SleepPhones alongside sleep apnea equipment! I guess when the sleep apnea person wears all sorts of noisy contraptions,...
Listen and Learn
Award-Winning Blogger Rachel Rambach from Listen and Learn Music just posted her review of SleepPhones! They are great headphones for school-age kids with hypersensitivity to pressure or certain...
Crowdeye
Apparently there is a twitter monitoring service out there called crowdeye. SleepPhones is now ranked on there as something to follow! Google Alerts told me about it. It's interesting the...
Automated Email Services
We have now signed up for an email service called AWeber Communications. It is a tool to collect and organize email lists from website visitors. It will send auto-responses when someone signs...
Twitter Giveaway, Magpie, and RevTwt
We set up a Twitter Giveaway in August to draw more attention to us. It has worked out okay from a business point of view. We have 497 Twitter followers right now, most of whom are people who...
Entrepreneurial Women's Expo
We had a great time at the Entrepreneurial Women's Expo in State College, PA on October 7, 2009! Here's a picture of our display. Here is a picture of the whole table, which we shared with our...
Wake-up Call: Small Business Development Center creates jobs
Wake-up Call: Small Business Development Center creates jobs Penn State Live University Park, Pa. -- Have you ever been awakened in the middle of the night and had trouble falling asleep again? A...
SleepPhones: Pajamas for your ears
SleepPhones: Pajamas for your ears SBDC Pennsylvania Success Story In 2007, family physician Wei-Shin Lai, MD struggled with falling back to sleep after late night phone calls from patients and...
Five Ways to Fall Asleep Faster
Five Ways To... Fall Asleep FasterSimple tricks that help you get a good night's sleep. By Brittani RenaudHealth Magazine Poor sleep is nothing to yawn at - it takes a toll on everything from your...
Sleepless in State College?
Sleepless in State College? By Harry ZimblerState College Magazine As she made her way through her medical residency, Wei-Shin Lai had one problem: getting back to sleep after waking in the middle of...
Sleeping in Style
Sleeping in StyleCNN Money AcousticSheep's SleepPhones Family doctor Wei-Shin Lai was happy to be available to patients during the evenings, but she had trouble falling back asleep after responding...
Bellefonte Start-Up Company Helps Others Get Some Rest
Bellefonte Start-Up Company Helps Others Get Some Rest By Jennifer ThomasCentre Daily Times They're pajamas for your ears - one local couple's invention to counter sleepless nights. The Bellefonte-...
A Look at Food Allergies: Frequently Asked Questions (Part 4/4)
FAQ: Celiac Disease / Gluten sensitivity: Anywhere from 1-5% of white people may have a problem with gluten sensitivity. The symptoms of gluten sensitivity vary widely and is a very complex topic...