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A Look at What Apple Could Do With Beddit's Sleep Technology
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My wife and I have a Sleep Number bed that has a similar function built-in, but their execution is horrible. If one of the dogs jumps on the bed after we leave for work, it thinks we went back to bed. And you can't edit the sleep time to let the app know when you were really in bed for several hours (probably because they are busy data-mining what the data tells them). If this gives them an incentive to make their app better, then it is great news.
While the Apple Watch is still constrained by the limits of its battery, this allows a two pronged coverage of health data collection. This strikes me as a smart play; but also an admission that Apple does not expect to achieve multiple day battery life in the Apple Watch any time soon.
The sensor is very sophisticated, but I haven’t seen any detailed results. It just says how long you were asleep, in essence. As far as I can tell, the software only gives you totals, which makes it ... well, useless for my own diagnostic purposes. I am sure Apple can do a lot with it, since Beddit itself doesn’t.
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If you mean the sleep gizmo, there’s no battery. I wish it connected to the phone via cable, rather than bluetooth.
Yes, because people literally cannot find an hour at home to charge their watch prior to going to bed.
Is... is that a real thing, or is it like "gluten sensitivity"?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/b...en-sensitivity-is-probably-just-in-your-head/
http://www.sciencealert.com/scienti...n-sensitivity-have-now-shown-it-doesn-t-exist
http://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(13)00702-6/abstract
Well, you're surrounded by Wi-Fi, radio waves, radiation, satellite transmissions, people using microwaves, computer screens, electrical devices and lots of other stuffs all day every day, so worrying about it when you're sleeping is extraordinarily specific.
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By no one, I guess you mean many people with sleep disorders? Maybe it's not something everyone wants, but something many people need. Blood sugar monitoring isn't used by everyone, or even a large percentage of people, but for those that do monitor their blood sugar, HealthKit integration is a huge step forward.
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what does this have to do with the watch?
Those who claim the battery lasts all day must barely use the watch itself. I played with it loads over a period of 2 weeks before I put mine in a drawer.
The battery would last about 6-8 hours, tops. Even my mechanical watch will give me 40 hours on a wind up
I just couldn't be arsed with another item to charge. Another charger and cable to carry with me.....
Those who claim the battery lasts all day must barely use the watch itself. I played with it loads over a period of 2 weeks before I put mine in a drawer.
The battery would last about 6-8 hours, tops. Even my mechanical watch will give me 40 hours on a wind up
I just couldn't be arsed with another item to charge. Another charger and cable to carry with me.....
I don't know what's your definition of "use". I leave the house with my Apple Watch fully charged at 6 am and it consistently ends the day at ~60-70% battery life. Throughout the day, I am interacting with notifications, apps, making payments with Apple Pay etc. I could probably make it through two days in between days but I don't see the need to.
Buying this kit is a very low entry to a sleep study, and could supplement, or provide preliminary data to support getting a full blown sleep study.
It could be a health care cost saving measure if refined/validated further.
While some populations won't see the benefit from this development, as obesity continues to rise, so will those patients who will view this technology as a life saver.
It goes without saying that this technology won't solve a problem, but rather bring attention to data that currently isn't being tracked, and help supplement/provide some insight into a domain thats not been extensively explored.
It's worth noting - You can't manage what you don't measure. And if you can't measure it, you can't improve/fix it.
Have you tried Apple's "Bedtime" function? It does some of what you describe already and has fantastic gradual wake up alarms.
Apple Watch is far too big to wear at night. Also, when would we find 2 hours to charge it without losing out on the activity monitoring.
I expected some ignorant replies, not going to justify responding to them
The Bedtime function can't do what these dedicated devices do because it has no idea what state of sleep you're in.
The key part is your alarm knowing when you're just finished a R.E.M. Cycle and then gradually start waking you up before you go into another cycle. It knows this because it measures your heart rate, breathing and movements through the night and determines your very personal pattern.
It's being awoken while inside of a R.E.M. Cycle that creates that startled, groggy and tired sensation. With regular alarms, it's a gamble because they don't know when you're in R.E.M. That's why sometimes you wake up perfectly refreshed — you got lucky and your alarm time hit the sweet spot — and other times you feel tired and groggy or wake up startled because you were awoken from deep sleep.
As I said in my first post, I didn't know what a good nights rest and waking up refreshed was like until I started using a Withings Aura. I'm very much looking forward to Apple's implantation with the Beddit acquisition.
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I don't see how that's a problem as long as the data that MS gets can't be identified as your data. Siri doesn't build user profiles and Apple uses differential privacy (which is mathematically proven to be unidentifiable), effectively completely scrambling and anonymizing the data before it is analyzed/sent somewhere.
Tin foil hats to the ready! I think they'd be more worried about rolling out of the side of the bed and falling over the edge or the planet.
Perhaps you don't have sleep problems but I do. I suffer from sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. If collecting my sleeping data could help in some research then I am all for it. And let's hope the purchase of those sensors will lead to another miniaturized version of the sensor installed in an Apple Watch which could monitor my breathing while I sleep.