8/18/2023 0 Comments Philips smart sleep wake up light![]() The PowerWake feature assures you that you will never sleep using flashing lights and strong hints to help you go fast. SmartSleep Connected has four custom sun color options and eight alarm sounds, which make waking up in the morning a welcoming experience. If you do decide to bring Headspace into the bedroom, make sure you have your phone’s sleep focus or bedtime mode turned on before you do, otherwise nighttime spam emails and Messenger alerts will undo all of the good work your sleep app just rendered.Philips SmartSleep Connected includes features that go beyond the wake-up routine. In addition to sleep content, you also get daytime meditations and sessions that help you breathe, focus and manage stress, which can also help with sleep. The yearly subscription is $70 or you can pay $13 a month. And perhaps most critically, there’s a “Nighttime SOS” page, with guided exercises to help you get back to sleep if you wake up with bad dreams, work stress or something else. Sleep music and soundscapes combine ambient sounds with tones and melodies, lasting up to 500 minutes. Longer “Sleepcasts” run around 45 minutes and tell you stories in calm voices – there are even a few Star Wars-themed tales, but those just made me want to get up and watch more Andor. I prefer the shorter, wind-down segments that last a few minutes and help you do a full body scan to relax. Like the Hatch Restore, this app has an extensive library of meditations and exercises to help you relax and fall asleep. Headspace, however, has the opposite effect on sleep that social media does. Personally, the best thing I’ve done for my sleep is banishing my phone from the bedroom, so it may seem ironic to add a smartphone app to this list. But in our review, with a score of 81, our reviewer (and new dad) Sam Rutherford said the Pod 3 has delivered some of the best sleep he’s ever had. ![]() You’ll also need a $19 per month subscription to access all the sleep tracking features. You can buy the cover alone and that will save you between $900 and $1,900 off the sticker price, but it’s still not cheap. ![]() The bulk of the cost is in the cover, which conceals tubing through which warm or cool water flows from an external base, regulating the temp, while sensors in the cover monitor your sleep. The mattress-and-cover combo goes for between $3,000 and $4,400, depending on the size and thickness of the mattress, which puts it well above any traditional wearable in terms of affordability. It also heats or cools your side of the bed and wakes you up with a subtle rumble beneath your chest. If you don’t want a wearable at all, the Sleep Pod 3 from Eight Sleep will track your metrics and give you a sleep score. Along with that, the alarm on the Inspire 3 can wake you up when you’re in a lighter sleep stage so coming back online isn’t as jarring. With the $10-per-month membership, you get a more detailed breakdown of the score, so you can better track your sleeping trends over time. Even without the premium membership, you’ll get a sleep score each morning. The company has put a lot of effort into expanding their sleep metrics, and the app can offer you detailed insights into how long you’re spending in each stage of sleep. It runs for around $100 and has similar sensors to the Oura, including heart rate, temp, movement and blood oxygen. Far more affordable than the Oura, Fitbit’s Inspire 3 is our budget pick for the best fitness tracker right now, and it does a good job tracking your Zs. That means you’re more likely to wear it to bed many nights in a row, until it eventually has to be recharged. If you prefer a wearable with a screen, a fitness tracker is arguably better than a smartwatch when it comes to sleep tracking since they tend to be less obtrusive and have longer battery life. That lack of screen is also the reason you can squeeze up to seven days of battery life out of it, an important feature since no sleep tracker can help if it has to spend its nights on a charger. Since it doesn’t have a screen, all of Oura’s information comes to you via the companion app. After a few days of wearing it, our reviewer quickly started to ignore its presence, which means you’re probably much more likely to wear it to bed than a fitness band. When we tested it out, we called it the “perfect wearable for people who don’t like wearables,” appreciating the data it provides while slipping seamlessly into everyday life. ![]() Using temperature, movement, blood oxygen and pulse sensors, Oura gains insight into how long you stay in the various sleep stages and uses that sleep data to offer suggestions on ways to get better quality rest. Oura’s smart ring tracks your activity during the day and your sleep at night (or whenever it is you go to bed), giving you an overall score from one to 100 each morning. ![]()
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