In this podcast, Cathi Bond and Nora Young look at trends in one of their favourite topics: sleep! Have trouble waking up in the morning? Cathi brings you “The Skull” alarm clock, featuring an alarm that clocks in at 113db and a bed shaker! (via Gizmag). Nora, on the other hand, has trouble sleeping. She thinks Nyx Devices’ nightshirt with smart fabric sensors to monitor your breathing, could help diagnose sleep trouble (via Technology Review)
Please! Share your tips for getting a good night’s sleep (and waking up)
You raise a fascinating point about self-monitoring.
We do seem obsessed with information-gathering about our selves… Self-knowledge using the scientific method, perhaps?
To answer your question, when I was younger, I would put a real bell-ringing alarm clock right by my head, and still wouldn’t wake up… Thankfully I’m not so bad now, but I can understand the predicament. However, I think something like the Bonecrusher alarm would simply infuriate me in the morning…
Looking forward to reading your book, Nora. When does it come out?
Hi there,
Thanks for your interest! The pub date is a little loose at the moment. Early 2012, with McClelland and Stewart. You can bet I’ll be flogging it all over the podcast once we have a firm date!
I really do think the whole self-monitoring thing is taking off as it gets so easy to do.
Yesterday I slept right through an alarm that everyone could hear downstairs. I am starting to think that my dream life is preferable to my unconscious than my waking life.