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Modern Solutions for Very Busy People

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Of course, since many elevators already have surveillance cameras, you'll be watching a TV monitor while you're also being watched on another TV monitor, making it the most Orwellian form of transportation.

5. The Problem: Restless Workers The Solution: Napping Pods

For the right price, you can get anything you want in New York City — even a nap. On the 24th floor of the Empire State Building, the going rate for a 20-minute midday snooze is $14, which is nothing to snore at.

Welcome to MetroNaps, New York's first napping center. Here weary commuters can catch some shut-eye in futuristic "napping pods," which resemble dome-covered La-Z-Boy chairs, equipped with music and ambient lighting.

When your respite ends, the pod gently vibrates, and you can freshen up with lemon-scented hand towels before heading back to the mean streets of Manhattan, reinvigorated.

MetroNaps hopes to provide quiet time in airports, shopping centers, and highway rest stops all around the country, according to founders Arshad Chowdhury and Christopher Lindholst, who opened their New York snooze-atorium in May.

Of course, you don't have to leave home if you want a nap. You can purchase the official MetroNaps pod for just $7,950 and catch all the ZZZs you want. But for that kind of money, you might want to sleep on it.

Buck Wolf is entertainment producer at ABCNEWS.com. The Wolf Files is published Tuesdays. If you want to receive weekly notice when a new column is published, join the e-mail list.

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