What’s on your mind?

Dare to dream

This is something that wouldn’t figure in the wildest of dreams. But if Tokyo-based Takara Co. is to be believed, dreaming in the future could only get wilder. The company’s latest invention is the Dream Workshop, a gadget that can be programmed by users to choose who or what to dream about! The bedside device can be fed with images, music and word prompts, which are played back in a pattern synchronised with that part of the human sleep cycle when dreams are most likely to occur. It also coaxes the sleeper out of sleep with soft light and music, so that the dreams remain in the sleeper’s mind. With an initial success rate of 22 per cent, the gadget is to hit the shelves in Japan in August for an estimated £110. Do we need to wish anyone ‘sweet dreams’ anymore?

 

What’s on your mind?lWHAT WOULD LARA CROFT BE CALLED if she were an Indian? Lara Dutta! Wisecracks apart, hats off to the beauty queen for shooting some of the most dangerous action sequences in Vikram Bhatt’s film Elaan without a double. Is a Hindi Tomb Raider in the pipeline?