3 ways to use technology to sleep better

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2015/04/10/tech-sleep/25364901/

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3 Ways To Use Technology To Sleep Better

This story explains that technology is helping with sleeping disorders and even death.
It turns out people who only sleep 6 to 7 hours a night, are 4 to 5 times more likely to get into a car crash. If you contiue to deprive yourself of sleep, then it can lead to depression, diabetes, hypertension and even obesity.

But people have created little gadgets to help.
For example the little tech orb, Sense, will track everything going on during the night. The temperature, humidity, noise, and light. There are gadgets like this. Beddit, that keeps track of your heart rate and breathing. Another one, Withings Aura, it goes through light and sound programs to help you sleep.
There are also apps and gadgets that monitor your movement. For example, there are apps called Sleep Better,which can even detect sleeping problems, SleepBot, which comes with a journal to keep track of your sleeping habits, and Sleep Cycle Alarm that all track your movements during the night.
There are even high tech matrasses to help with better sleep. There is Sleep Number, which has sensors to track your breathing, heart rate and movments. There is also Luna, which is a mattress cover that you put onto any mattress to track your breathing rate and heart rate for a while so you can see if your sleep has improved or not.

So it looks like engineers have it figured out. I found this interesting because it is like all of these gadgets are a doctor to help with sleeping. I amnot the only person that is happy about this. People with depression and sleeping disorders will have some hope to overcome those illnesses with these gadgets.