Feeling sleepy? Don't forget your mind-reading, sleep-preventing baseball cap!

If you have caught yourself drifting off at the wheel late at night, you wouldn't be alone. Falling asleep at the wheel is one of the biggest causes of car accidents and despite government campaigns to target sleepy drivers; it is still a major problem, especially on the motorways.

However, the invention of the SmartCap could change all this and they could even become standard wear for truck drivers if they prove a success.

With clever brain-scanning technology, the SmartCap detects when you're falling asleep by reading your brainwaves. If it thinks the driver is getting sleepy, it sends a message to a computer screen in their cab, which flashes an alert, warning them to take a rest.

Whether this is some made up fantasy invented to catch out the gullible like myself, or whether it is actually a real invention, the SmartCap could prove a brilliant invention. However, for it really to be a success it would need to be brought out in different styles and colours so that you could coordinate it with whatever you were wearing.

# posted by Fuse @ 3:57 AM