All of us have been in that position: You’re dying to take a nap, but you’re stuck in a public place and embarrassed to be seen sleeping among strangers.

Fret no more — the Snazzy Napper is here to save the day! The Snazzy Napper is a state-of-the-art “privacy sleep shield/blanket that can be used by any traveler,” according to the Snazzy Napper blog. It is a sleep mask combined with a blanket to shield your face and give you a cozy place to cuddle up, right in your airplane chair, subway bench or bus seat.

Stop worrying about possibly having a mindlessly agape expression on your face in your sleep. Now with this blanket/face cover, you are free to nap anywhere and be judged by at least five times more people, instantly!

The Snazzy Napper has been tested extensively. Not only is it seen on the product’s infomercial, but it has also been featured on “Ellen,” who tastefully analyzed the product’s usability and stylishness.

In August 2010, Jeanne Moos of CNN also did an exclusive report on everyone’s favorite sleep mask/blanket hybrid. She tested it out on a New York subway, asking people what they think of the product and interviewing individuals who weren’t afraid to voice their highly skeptical opinions. The responses that people gave were full of incredulity, bewilderment and dubiousness. Personally, I don’t blame Moos for covering up her face for much of the video, because that blanket makes her look a little too snazzy, for lack of a better word.

The inventor of the Snazzy Napper is Margaret Wilson, an Atlanta-based physician who either has an unparalleled sense of humor or a terrible sense of entrepreneurship (Or perhaps both?). In her interview with Moos, she herself can’t help but laugh at her own creation as she tries it on as a demonstration.

There is another thing that’s not mentioned in the infomercial: A hidden use for the Snazzy Napper is its secret second identity — once you flip it around, it can easily double as a super snazzy cape. If you’re feeling “super” sleepy, then you can wear the Snazzy Napper backwards to show everyone how punny you are, and how you still have the mind of a six-year-old.

Mashable.com believes this product’s infomercial is hilariously strange, not to mention viral on the web. In 2010, the website even held a contest reaching out to its readers to produce their very own Snazzy Napper parody video. The winner was set to receive a feature on the website, and — you guessed it — their very own Snazzy Napper. Very fitting.

All in all, I have nothing much to say about this product, except that it crosses the line of what is hilariously ridiculous and enters the realm of unreasonably bizarre.  Even for me, the infomercial aficionado that I claim to be, I think this product is just plain weird. Whatever your point of view on the Snazzy Napper, you can’t deny that it looks like you strapped a child’s blanket to your face and ripped open a breathing hole for your nose. The American populace can’t be foolish enough to buy this, can they?

Actually, don’t answer that. I don’t even want to know.