Category: Sleep

12 DEVICES AND APPS TO QUANTIFY YOUR SLEEP

You can quantify just about every part of your life with today’s tech, but what’s more important than getting enough rest? There are now a plethora of ways to keep an eye on the quality of your sleep as well as how much you’re getting.

While we’ve not been able to play around with all of these gadgets at the Gizmodo office, you shouldn’t have to look too far on the web to find reviews from current users, which will help you make a choice. Where we had the chance to test out a device, you’ll see it mentioned it in the text.

Plus. for reasons of brevity we’ve counted out smartwatches, but don’t forget the likes of the Apple Watch, the Moto 360, and just about every other model on the market that can track your snoozing as well as telling the time — provided you don’t mind going to bed each night with a watch strapped to your wrist.

 

 

DOES A FULL MOON AFFECT YOUR CHILD’S SLEEP? SCIENCE WEIGHS IN WHERE COMMON SENSE DOES NOT.

Via: CanTech

It’s a question posed since the first exhausted parents tried to deal with their Energizer bunny of a child, still up and still rambunctious at one o’clock in the morning – is my kid a werewolf?

Now with a recent study on how the lunar cycle might be affecting children’s behaviour we can finally announce the more or less definite results: not likely. The comprehensive study tracked the waking and sleeping habits of 7372 children aged nine to 11 from 12 countries around the world to see if their behaviour was affected by the full moon. Using accelerators strapped to the children’s waists to monitor movement, researchers were able to collect data on sleep duration, light-intensity activity, moderately vigorous activity and total sedentary time over a seven day period. Once the results were calculated and coordinated with the various phases of the moon, it was found that only sleep duration was affected by the lunar cycle -on average, children slept five minutes less when the moon is full, representing a one per cent reduction in sleep time.

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UNIVERSITY OF BASEL RESEARCHERS PROVE “FULL MOON EFFECT” IMPACTS ON HUMAN SLEEP

Via: News.com.au

SCIENTISTS say they’ve proven what paramedics have claimed for years – evidence that shows people go a bit nutty when there’s a full moon.

Dr Gordian Fulde has been the director of the emergency department at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital for 30 years and says throughout his entire career he’s known “people really do behave more strangely than they normally do” at the peak of the lunar cycle.

“It’s a very firm belief because it’s just been like this for years, decades and centuries,” Dr Fulde said.

However, science has only just caught up.

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