This Technology Is Designed To Put You To Sleep
You might not think you could use IT while you sleep, but you can.
Take Pzizz, for instance, an Apple and Android App, highly rated by its users as a great way to get to sleep faster and leave you more refreshed in the morning.
Its combination of soothing music, words and sounds has an almost hypnotic effect that can be customised to run for up to an hour.
Then there is Sleep Time.
This App tracks your sleep and then wakes you up, not in the rude, jarring manner of an alarm clock, but in a gentler, better timed fashion.
It chooses a moment of light sleep to bring you gently back into the world, refreshed and ready for the day.
It also uses the accelerometers in Apple or Android watches and phones to track the subtle movements we all make overnight.
From these, it creates graphical pictures of our sleep patterns.
Of course, the trouble with sleep Apps is that they work better for those who have no one to share a bed with.
There is no point in rousing Wifey when she is least sleepy if Hubby is at his most far gone and going to be grumpy all day!
Apple, though, has recently introduced a feature in iOS 9.3 that works for both sides of a double bed.
This is NightShift, which responds to scientific findings that the blue light emitted by screens fool us into thinking it is daytime.
As a result, those who use their tablets before retiring can then find it harder to get to sleep.
Apple’s night setting reduces blue emissions and replaces then wit twilight orange.
