Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Do You Want to Sleep Better? There's an App for That

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A company called Zeo believes technology can help you sleep better.  The app is free but will be useless without a 99 dollar headband that sinks with the app.  This headband measures your brain waves while you are sleeping so that it can give you advice on how to better your sleeping experience.  It also creates graphs to tell you what kind of sleep you had at certain times during the night.  Zeo can determine the optimal time to wake you up based on your REM sleep, deep sleep, and light sleep so that you feel the most refreshed.  Then with this information it will wake you up at that optimal time.  Zeo tells you your ZQ score after each night.  The ZQ score is a rating of how well you slept during the night.  The higher you score the better. This sleep score can help you to know if you need to go to sleep earlier or if you are doing just fine with what you are doing.  Zeo also offers a coaching program that tells you things to do to live a lifestyle that allows you to have better sleep.

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Jacob Saslavsky

4 comments:

  1. I think sinks is spelled syncs. At least it has a cool name.

    - Chef Boyardee

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  2. o_0

    ...This seems unnecessary. Cool, but unnecessary.
    I figure you can afford to get professional help if you have a smartphone and are okay with buying the tacky headband.
    Nice article.

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  3. Cool. I know one way to help teenagers sleep better. NO HOMEWORK! where can I get one for cheap.

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  4. It is amazing how technology can affect your life. I mean, it isn't as if I could just evaluate my sleep by myself. I obviously need to throw down $100 in order to be happy with my sleep.

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