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[Maxwell House]

The clock, called SleepSmart, measures your sleep cycle, and waits for you to be in your lightest phase of sleep before rousing you. Its makers say that should ensure you wake up feeling refreshed every morning.

As you sleep you pass through a sequence of sleep states - light sleep, deep sleep and REM sleep - that repeats approximately every 90 minutes. The point in that cycle at which you wake can affect how you feel later, and may even have a greater impact than how long or little you have slept. Being roused during a light phase means you are more likely to wake up perky.

SleepSmart records the distinct pattern of brain waves produced during each phase of sleep, via a headband equipped with electrodes and a microprocessor. This measures electrical activity of the wearer's brain, in much the same way as EEG machines used for medical and research purposes, and communicates wirelessly with a clock unit near the bed. You program the clock with the latest time at which you want to be wakened, and it then duly wakes you during the last light sleep phase before that.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624956.600

I am definitely buying one of these babies when they come out.

 

[Piecake]

sounds expensive

 

[Drozmight]

not waking during REM = less likely to remember your dreams.

 

[miyuru]

I believe there's already a watch that does the same thing. Pretty cool, it'd be a good investment from what I've heard.

 

[Space Age Playboy]

Sounds great but I probably couldn't get to sleep with a bunch of headgear on.

 

[Chony]

I prefer banging my snooze alarm until I am ready to get up.

 

[StoOgE]

stupid question: if the sleep cycle is 90 minutes, and if you just miss the light sleep part, couldnt you potentiall get up like an hour late?

 

[Rorschach]

This is kinda old. http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=42278&highlight=alarm

sounds expensive

You wouldn't say that if you knew what it looked like. It's basically a clock on wheels with carpet padding around it.

 

[cubanb]

This is kinda old. http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=42278&highlight=alarm


You wouldn't say that if you knew what it looked like. It's basically a clock on wheels with carpet padding around it.

except that these arent the same alarm clock. One hides itself after you hit snooze, the other measures ur brain waves to determine when to wake you up.

anyone have a link to the watch that does this?

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

This is kinda old. http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=42278&highlight=alarm


You wouldn't say that if you knew what it looked like. It's basically a clock on wheels with carpet padding around it.

I think you jumped to a conclusion before reading enough words in this topic...

 

[teh_pwn]

LOL, I was talking about some ideas I had for future inventions in an engineering class a few years ago. One was an alarm clock that measured brain waves to wake you up with respect to sleep cycles, and the other was microwave (maybe not by tech, but concept) that cools. One guy said he'd steal the idea and make millions. Probably not him though, and I'm sure someone's thought of these concepts way before I did (especially the microwave cooler).

 

[smirkrevenge]

SLEEP WATCH LINK:

http://www.gearlive.com/index.php/news/article/sleeptracker_watch_review_03221147/

i'd buy it if it wasn't a watch. i prefer to sleep watchless.

 

[levious]

and the other was microwave (maybe not by tech, but concept) that cools.

macrowave? Don't know what I'm talking about though.

 

[Rorschach]

I think you jumped to a conclusion before reading enough words in this topic...

I should get more sleep. Never done anything this stupid. It gets on my nerves when other people do it...I am owned. :lol

 

[human5892]

stupid question: if the sleep cycle is 90 minutes, and if you just miss the light sleep part, couldnt you potentiall get up like an hour late?

That's what I thought of, too. I think it's a legitimate question.

 

[Pedigree Chum]

not waking during REM = less likely to remember your dreams.

Yeah, I love waking at REM state just so that I can remember my wacky dreams.

 

[nomoment]

This is perfect for people who don't need to get up on time.

Wait, doesn't that defeat the point of an alarm clock?

 

[Sean ConnerOWN3D]

stupid question: if the sleep cycle is 90 minutes, and if you just miss the light sleep part, couldnt you potentiall get up like an hour late?

It says that the clock wakes you up during the last light sleep phase before whatever time you set it as the latest time to be woken up. It's probably much more likely that you'll be woken up over an hour before you want to and then go back to sleep because of it.

 

[CosmicGroinPull]

Sounds great but I probably couldn't get to sleep with a bunch of headgear on.

me too.