Sleep Monitor

Zeo, Inc (Newton, MA), a company started by “sleep deprived students from Brown University,” has developed a “Personal Sleep Coach” to record a person’s sleep patterns.  “Coach” may be too strong a word; it doesn’t actually help someone sleep better, it simply uses a headband with sensors that monitors periods of wakefulness, light sleep and REM during a night’s rest.  Collected data wirelessly transmits to a recording device and its memory card can be downloaded to a computer for a programmed analysis. Some researchers suppose that the earliest signs of major disease development is in sleep disturbances.    MORE

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