# Collapsible Travel Pillows Cocoon's Car Travel Pillow Shrinks to the Size of a Baseball By Laura McQuarrie | Published 2015-02-04 | World Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/car-travel-pillow References: [backpacker](http://www.backpacker.com/gear/essentials/car-camping/gear-review-sweet-dreams/) & [cocoon.at](http://www.cocoon.at/eng/show.php?doc=frameset&page=cocoon_ckat2&kat=7&prod=55) There's nothing worse than having a crick in your neck while trying to sleep on a road trip, but this [car travel pillow](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/heytrip) from Cocoon ensures that you have a nice place to rest your head. While it's great to have a pillow on hand, they often take up valuable space that's limited in a car. Cocoon's Ultralight Air-Core Pillow features an [inflatable chamber](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/apo5c) and a soft microfleece exterior. When it's not needed, the pillow can be compressed down to roughly the same size as a baseball and tucked into a neat carrying pouch. At about $26, Cocoon's inflatable pillow definitely costs more than bringing your own from home, this collapsible feature is worth the investment if you're short on space and will be planning frequent [camping, travel or road trips](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/zlounger). ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 5.3/10 - Popularity: 83% | Activity: 67% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 50% men, 50% women - Primary generations: Millennial - Top markets: North America ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [World](https://www.trendhunter.com/world) > [Travel](https://www.trendhunter.com/travel) ## Key Themes ### Why This Trend Is Growing - **Collapsible Travel Accessories:** There is an opportunity to create more collapsible travel accessories to save space and create efficiency for travelers. - **Inflatable Products:** Creating inflatable products would be a disruptive innovation for industries that rely on bulky items to simplify transportation and benefit the customers with portability. - **Microfleece Products:** Venturing into microfleece products for companies that manufacture travel products would improve customer experience and satisfaction in comfort during trips. ### Industries Being Reshaped - **Travel Products:** Collapsible travel accessories like inflatable pillows give travel product manufacturers an edge in creating space-saving products for their customers. - **Camping Products:** Inflatable products like collapsible pillows could disrupt the camping products industry by providing customers an efficient space-saving product that is portable. - **Sporting Goods:** Inflatable equipment and accessories that use microfleece materials can benefit sporting goods manufacturers in creating efficient products that are not only comfort-centered but space-saving too. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Packable Camp Pillows](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/packable-camp-pillow.md) - [Neck-Safe Travel Pillows](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/cabeau-tne-s3.md) - [Posture-Aligned Travel Pillows](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/sleeper-hold-travel-pillow.md) - [Sensory Deprivation Travel Pillows](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/pod-travel-pillow.md) - [Multi-Purpose Travel Pillows](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/allinone-travel-pillow-system.md) - [Fuzzy Oversized Neck Pillows](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/buffy-nook-pillow.md) - [Ultra-Soft Convertible Pillows](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/butterfly-sleep-pillow.md) - [Wrapping Posture Support Pillows](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/spiral-travel-pillow.md) - [Two-In-One Neck Pillows Chairs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/neck-pillow-lounge.md)