It’s Thursday, people! Time to show your Pajama Pride!

  

Did you know? There is an actual National Pajama Day! April 16th is national pajama day
 (a holiday which is sadly under-celebrated and under-appreciated). No one knows who 
created it or why it was created, but it has been around for about twenty years now. 
Petition for a movement to get Pajama Day more widely recognized, anyone?

 

Did you know? The greatest leap of progress in the pajama industry occurred in 1971
 when the Customer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) established regulations that 
set the new standard for the flammability of children’s sleepwear. Prior to these 
regulations, children’s sleepwear had been dangerously flammable, and there was 
a huge problem with children’s clothing catching fire while they slept. Since the 1971
 act, there was a ninety percent decrease in child deaths by fire. Safety standards are
 very important, everyone!

Learn more about the specific regulations here! ->
  https://www.cpsc.gov/Business--Manufacturing/Business-Education/Business-Guidance/Childrens-Sleepwear-Regulations

Did you know? The Amherst programming team at the University of Massachusetts has
 created a new type of pajamas called “Phyjamas” which use advanced panel sensors
 and a process called “reactive vapor deposition” to monitor posture and respiratory 
and cardiac signals of wearers while they sleep. This data can be used to provide people 
with useful information to improve their sleep patterns and lessen the chances of stress,
 infections, and multiple diseases which can be caused by unhealthy sleep. They don’t
 have pictures of the pajamas out yet so this is just an image of “advanced pajamas”.

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Portfolio: Day 9 

What have you already done with computing and technology? 
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