To help track your sleep issues better, here is another health-inspired device that should help in the diagnosis of sleep issues. This is the Jawbone UP, a wrist-worn sensor bracelet that aims to help track movement and sleep patterns with the aid of a special app.
The bracelet comes with an array of sensors that may include an accelerometer along with a battery inside the water-proofed housing. They come in blue and pink color schemes and can be connected through an iPhone.
The app
For anyone who sleeps, dreams will be there. But the thing is, are they in color or black and white? Seems like a question for TV geeks but seriously, it seems that dreams may come in color or black and white for people, if they can remember them that is.
Apparently a journal called Dreaming asked some people about their dreams. 80% of the younger portion said they got colored dreams while the older ones either couldn’t remember or had them in black and white. And since we did mention that this s
It is indeed commendable to throw all your time and make sacrifices as far as your career or work is concerned but as we all know, sleeping less and adding more stress to yourself will eventually take its toll. In fact, it may even affect your productivity and effectiveness due to lack of focus and memory.
Harvard Business Review thus calls on people to get wiser and be more aware of sleeping less. There are limitations on the benefits one would get from sacrificing sleep and staying up fo
A big cause of accidents among people these days would be that of driving while lacking sleep. We have come across a lot of stories where sleep deprivation can be dangerous to people overall but if you want some reality check, here is a story that should become a cause for concern. Traveling can be a big problem for drivers, especially when you don’t get the proper sleep if you are behind the wheel. Fighting it off with coffee or some other stuff to keep you awake would be helpful but there will come
Television has been used by some parents to help get their kids to sleep. Watching cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny or Spongebob Squarepants do seem harmless. In fact they are hilarious and keep the kids occupied, not to mention happy. However, a sleep study proves otherwise and point to these late night TV shows are potentially violent en route to kids getting nightmares. A new sleep study out of the Seattle Children’s Research Institute shows wee ones between the ages of 3 and 5 experienced more
Companies come up with products to help people relax but this is something that may need further improvement. While it seems like something yummy to consume, the fact is that kids may find it interesting to digest as well. Made to help people relax, it was found the these Lazy Cakes contained amounts of melatonin which could be harmful to kids.
Among the issues that kids may incur include vivid dreams and stomach problems which may eventually lead to kids going to the hospital. Nothing has be
Nurses are known to have sleep issues due to their shifts. About 25% of nurses reportedly can go as much as 24 hours without sleep just to adjust but this is considered a poor remedy to correct the circadian clock issue they are facing.
According to some researchers, there are strategies that nurses undergo. This includes sleeping in late on mornings before the first night shift and maintaining a night schedule on their day offs. Depending on how you look at it, these could be great strategies. H
Here is another study that should let you know why naps shouldn’t be overlooked. The study was conducted at the University of California which found that sleeping before learning something is just as important as sleeping for about 100 minutes.
In a study done on 44 volunteers, study co-author Matthew Walker, explained that the volunteers who took a nap before undergoing a memorization test ended up with higher test points than their counterparts who did not take a nap.
Apparently thr
Gadgets and devices are awesome but they don’t seem so hot if you sacrifice sleep for them. Being infatuated with latest devices like the iPad or even a netbook, it is a fact that we have foregone sleep in lieu of them since we seem to be very much infatuated with their functions.
And through a poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, it was found that about 95% of Americans use these devices an hour before bedtime and potentially wrecks a person’s body block. Did I say an hour before? For so
There are many ways that can help categorize the sleep quality people have and now you can add another way to do that using brain waves. It seems that some scientists have pinpointed to alpha waves to do the trick, something that emanates from the back of the head of an individual.
Scientists used to think that the wave was subdued and disappeared as a person fell deeper and deeper into sleep. Alpha wave activity may be the brain’s way of keeping people aware of their surroun
