Everyone hates waking up, looking around the room from the cosy cocoon that is their beds and knowing that in ten minutes they’ll have to get up and start your day. For the most part, this is down to feeling groggy and unenergized even if they’ve just slept for eight hours.
WakeMate is an upcoming web app which is paired with a wristband (which you have to buy for $50) that aims to solve that problem. Here’s how it works:
You put the wristband on and power it up. It’s Bluetooth enabled. You then pair it with your phone (can be anything from an iPhone right down to your basic run-of-the-mill cell phone). When you hit the hay, the device monitors your sleep movements and cycles and records them on an internal flash drive. When you phone’s alarm is triggered by the wristband, you wake up and start your day. Your wristband will then have sent your sleep data to your phone which will in turn have uploaded it to you online account. You can then monitor you sleep patterns and quality on your account.
I think this is quite a useful app which may help thousands of people. You can pre-order your wristband from their site and pay just $5 now, and the rest when it ships. They’re due to ship in January. As for now, the app is a stand-alone product.
Sleep.FM consists of a group of individuals whose hard work is establishing the Internet’s first smart and community powered alarm clock. The alarm clock has been waking us up to boring, impersonal noise for centuries! Now through Sleep.FM the alarm clock is a device that wakes and informs us!
Sleep.FM in essence is an alarm clock that you set on the internet and that wakes you up via your computer. Currently Sleep.FM works on computers but they are also developing new models that work on web alarm clocks and even mobile devices like the iPhone.
The alarm itself either talks in a male or female voice and can tell you your current weather conditions, a 12 hour forecast, the time, or you can pick and customise your own alarm greeting.
I personally think this product would be great for the iPhone and other devices. Additionally, it would be great if you could choose the song you want to wake up to, but then also have the voice in the foreground for 10 seconds until the track cut in.
20minutenap.com is a place to head if you are in need of some rest. They want to spread the power and benefit of the 20 minute nap across the globe. The site itself is a music player in which plays soothing music for exactly 20 minutes. Now personally, Im not too sure why someone would come online just to have a nap. Im not totally sure about the full concept but if you have a take on it make sure you let me know!
Everyone hates waking up, looking around the room from the cosy cocoon that is their beds and knowing that in ten minutes they’ll have to get up and start your day. For the most part, this is down to feeling groggy and unenergized even if they’ve just slept for eight hours.
