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Active Driver Monitoring for Drowsy Drivers

Active Driver Monitoring for Drowsy Drivers

The Holidays will mean a lot of feasting and late night outs and with that thought alone, you will agree that drunk or even simply drowsy drivers are sure to plague the streets. And to help avoid such unfortunate incidents, perhaps this new system will minimize or better yet negate such accidents for the season of cheers.

The system is the Active Driver Monitoring System, something that should keep drivers alert by monitoring their eye and head movements as well as the driver’s hea

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Sleepwalkers Replay a Day’s Learning Experience

The state of mind or at least the things that are taught can be existent in our subconscious selves. That is what we all believed in and until now, there was no real scientific evidence to back it up. But thanks to some sleep researchers over at France’s Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, a breakthrough may yet back it up, all on video at that.

They came up with a straightforward test to do the trick. They would teach a motor task to sleepwalkers and people with sleep behavior disorders, who typically move their bodies in tandem with dreams. If test subjects repeated the mot

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New Pro-Biotic Beds from Silentnight

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Silentnight reveals yet another potential breakthrough to get some sensible sleep with their new Pocket Zing mattresses. They are filled with pro-biotic microcapsules to help provide better wakefulness in the mornings.

As you sleep, your body pressure activates the friendly bacteria, which quickly multiply to outnumber and replace any harmful bacteria in the bed. The friendly bacteria reduce mould and moisture, keeping dust-mites at bay and reducing allergens for a drier, fresher, healthier bed.

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Memory Formation Evidence from Sleep Discovered

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Though we haven’t seen any concrete proof on how we can benefit from proper sleep as far as our memory is concerned, it seems that this logic is going to be backed up soon with this new discovery by Rutgers University, Newark and Collége de France, Paris research team. It seems that they have scored a major breakthrough discovering a mechanism that is responsible for associating sleep with memory formation.

Normally, we address it to the time of sleep. Other than that, no clear evidence exists. But now it looks like the said research teams outdid themselves. They have dete

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