Sleep Cycle iPhone app could be a winner
Yesterday while browsing the iTunes App store I came across a little beauty called ‘Sleep Cycle’. Read a review here. Cost me around R10, and it very cleverly ‘apparently’ monitors your sleep pattern and then sets the alarm off somewhere during the last 30 minutes of your sleep, during that sleep period where you’re in your most awake state.
How it does it is with the iPhone’s accelerometer. You place your iPhone under your sheets near the top of your bed, and as you move during the evening, this app picks up that movement and tracks what depth of sleep you’re in. As you get 30 minutes away from your wake up time, it chooses a ‘light sleep’ moment to set the alarm off. It threfore saves you from waking up as a grizzly bear because you had to get up in a ‘deep sleep’ zone.
Very kewl idea and concept. Who couldn’t do with one of these? However, we tried it on Leish last night and it didn’t work. it did pick up that she got out of bed during the night to check on the girls but other than that nada.
We haven’t given up, the jury’s out and we’ll give it another bash tonight. One tiny kewl feature, and you wonder why other digital alarm clocks don’t do this – is that it keeps a record of your sleep volume. So once you activate it, to when you wake up is stored and you get to build a history of your sleep over a week, month, etc.
As soon as we have more I’ll comment on this post. While I was reading up on the app, I found this slightly related cartoon that I thought worth adding in : )
Click here to go to Sleep Cycle App Web Page
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Mike says:
February 8th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Hey there,
I’m thrilled to find out what you think about the app after using it for a little while. I used it for about a week or so until i decided that sleep cycle tracking is great but all the hassle it provides is not for me. So I went out and got myself an actual alarm clock that tracks sleep patterns (www.axbo.com) and it’s really a lot easier to use and way more comfortable – just in case you are not happy with the iphone app.
Barrie says:
February 8th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Hey Mike
Love the initiative of tracking this and letting me know about another product. I’ll definitely go have a look.
I’m assuming you work for http://www.axbo.com ?
: )
Mike says:
February 8th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
not exactly. but i like the product.