Somnus Sleep Shirt watches once you sleep, won’t be creepy about it (video)

Monitoring sleep patterns usually involves a hydra of sensors that keep track of brain activity, muscle movements and heart rates, but a startup called Nyx Devices has developed a brand new night shirt that may evaluate the standard of a user’s slumber by analyzing only breathing patterns. The shape-fitting Somnus Sleep Shirt is embedded with two sensors that keep track of a person’s overnight breathing and transmit this knowledge to a small data recorder, which slides into the lower corner of the nightie. When a user wakes up, she or he can upload their stats to Nyx’s website, where they could generate more detailed analytics and log their caffeine and alcohol intake to determine how all those martini lunches affect their snoozing. Co-inventor Matt Bianchi, a snooze neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, thinks the Somnus could help patients stricken by insomnia, who often have difficulty determining how much shuteye they really get. It’s worth noting, though, that this exclusively respiratory approach continues to be considered experimental and Nyx still has to conduct a number of at-home tests before bringing the shirt to market next year, hopefully for only $100. Until then, we’ll just keep tossing and handing over our Spider Man jammies. Stroll past the break for an appropriately soporific video.

Source

This post is tagged: alcohol intake, brain activity, breathing patterns, massachusetts general hospital, muscle movements, sleep patterns