Track Those 40 Winks
So many people have trouble sleeping world wide that it is a wonder that the market is not filled with a number of sleep monitoring or inducing gadgets. Innovative Sleep Solutions latest gadget - the Sleeptracker Pro - helps you gather data on your sleeping pattern. The Sleeptracker looks like an oversized wrist watch. It tracks the number of times that you are in a near-awake moment during the night. Near-awake sleep usually happens in-between the deep and refreshing REM sleep. Loud noises and outside stimuli can also cause a near-awake moment. During this time you can sit up and look at the clock or briefly toss and turn before falling back to a deeper sleep. Most people average 1 near-awake moment every 20 to 35 minutes during a normal night. These moments usually last only 20 seconds.
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Innovative Sleep Solutions is very careful to state what the Sleeptracker is not. It will not help you to sleep better or shorten the amount of sleep that you need per night. It is not a medical device. The Sleeptracker will track your near-awake moments and can be set to alarm when your body is most awake. The data it gathers about your near-awake can be uploaded into your PC via a USB port. If would be great if Innovative Sleep Solutions included detailed questions to help you create a personal sleep profile. They could have asked questions like when did you eat dinner, what did you do immediately before going to sleep and so on. Having this information alongside the near-awake data would be a whole lot more useful.
The Sleeptracker Pro costs $179. This is an expensive alarm clock. The data gained from a consumer’s sleep pattern is interesting but it still requires you to diagnosis why one night’s sleep is better than another. The Sleeptracker Pro is a nice toy but it delivers little for almost 200 bucks.
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