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Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock (IPhone App)
![]() The Sleep Cycle alarm clock is a bio-alarm clock that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you when you are in the lightest sleep phase. Waking up in the lightest sleep phase feels like waking without an alarm clock - it is a natural way to wake up where you feel rested and relaxed. Since you move differently in bed during the different phases, Sleep Cycle uses the accelerometer in your iPhone to monitor your movement to determine which sleep phase you are in. Have you ever woken up feeling completely wrecked when the alarm clock
goes off, despite the fact that you have slept "enough" hours? When this
happens you have probably been awakened during a deep sleep phase, and
your whole day can turn into one long zombie marathon. During the night you go from light sleep to deep sleep, occasionally entering into a dream state which is called REM-sleep. These are things that your normal alarm clock does not care about, and will go off at the set time regardless of whether you are in a light sleep phase or in the deepest sleep. However, since you move differently in bed during the different phases, the Sleep Cycle alarm clock is able to use the accelerometer in your iPhone to monitor your movement and determine which sleep phase you are in. Sleep Cycle then uses a 30 minute alarm window that ends at your set alarm time and wakes you in your lightest sleep phase. http://www.mdlabs.se/sleepcycle
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Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers
Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed, proximity and route -- and drive independently. Source: TED |
Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy. Source : TED |
Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car
Sebastian Thrun helped build Google's amazing driverless
car, powered by a very personal quest to save lives and reduce traffic
accidents. Source : TED |
The Creepiest, Most Realistic Robot Ever
Geminoid Meet Geminoid DK, the latest creation from famed roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/07/creepiest-realistic-robot/#ixzz1IlnnyOb8 Incredibly cool or insanely creepy? Yes, that is an actual robot. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/07/creepiest-realistic-robot/#ixzz1IftFPYMy |
Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes
We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic composition that records some of the most dramatic events in outer space. (Black holes, for instance, bang on spacetime like a drum.) An accessible and mind-expanding soundwalk through the universe Source:TED |
Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion
Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what's useful? At TEDxGöteborg, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools -- like virtual autopsies -- for analyzing this myriad data, and a glimpse at some sci-fi-sounding medical technologies in development. This talk contains some graphic medical imagery. Source:TED |
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Using Text Messaging to Increase Patients Medication Compliance
Dr Kvedar joins The Female Patient in an Audiocast to describe the evolving role of information technology in the medical field.Source:The Female Patient |
Zeo Personal Sleep Coach
Your quality of sleep is central to your quality of life. Zeo is designed to help
you analyze your sleep and improve it, so you can be your best every day. It’s
composed of a lightweight wireless headband, a bedside display, a set of online
analytical tools, and an email-based personalized coaching program. Buy Zeo with 15$ discount at Zeo Personal Sleep Coach |