Sony patent application puts electrodes in a pillow
Up until now one could monitor one’s sleep using the science of actigraphy but experience has shown that accelerometers are not the best sleep trackers. Scientists prefer to use electrodes, even though they are less convenient and also uncomfortable for the patient. So Sony is now proposing a system that will be a game changer. It will do away with the messy glue and put the sensors in your pillow.
Already a patent application has been filed by the company and conceives of an advanced alarm clock that will monitor brain waves to check when you enter and leave REM sleep. If this works then it may even be able to guide users though an efficient power nap. This would be achieved by starting a timer at the point of dozing and then waking them once they’ve come out of a deeper slumber. The form of the be that of a buzzer, a flashing light or a bed shaking motor.
2013-02-14 21:45:33
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