Jan 17, 2010 10:41 AM

Urban Sleepsuit

Designers really enjoy messing with conceptual favela-chic stuff like this. If any fraction of the population really started sleeping in the streets in their high-tech fluffy overalls, the cops would Taser and pepper-gas them pronto.

http://www.impactlab.com/2010/01/15/the-sleepsuit-sleep-anywhere-anytime/

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