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Sleep Cycle App for iPhones

Brian Yalung — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:20:34 +0000

There is another iPhone app in the market which should aid sleep deprived people to resolve their sleeping problems. The new app is called the Sleep Cycle app which turns your iPhone into a virtual sleep tracker. It makes use of the iPhone’s sensor which monitors movement.

Sleep Cycle uses these fluctuations to create a nightly record of your sleep, which it presents to you each morning in the form of a graph. More remarkably still, it uses this information to decide when you’ve reached the optimal point in your cycle to wake up. Then it assists you back to consciousness with soothing music.

(Source) Guardian

Back To School, Back to Proper Sleep for Kids

Brian Yalung — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:15:35 +0000

Vacation time is over and most of the kids will be trooping back to their schools to continue their studies to the next level. While the school break may have more than spoiled them from observing the proper sleeping hours, it is time to once again regulate their body clocks of sleeping on time and wake up in the morning to go to school.This is one thing that a parent or guardian should include in the things to remember when it comes to preparing for the new school year. Getting the proper amount of sleep is still the best way to keep bright minds thinking and understanding what they learn from school.

Source: Time to Set Kids’ Back-to-School Sleep Clocks