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You know that if you sleep too little or if you sleep too much, you might be pretty tired the next day. There's a solution that may help. It's called WakeMate. No, it won't help you sleep--but it will help you figure out what is the best time to set your alarm clock for, to make you feel your best the next day. Also, the wrong amount of sleep may take away from your life span...

"There's been at least two epidemiological studies to show that if people get less than five hours, or more than 10 hours of sleep, it increases their mortality," said Michael Breus, the clinical director of the sleep division at Southwest Spine and Sports in Scottsdale, Arizona.

WakeMate is a wristband that works in tandem with its mobile app. It studies your sleep by your wrist movements during the night, figuring out where your sleep cycles are, REM, etc using a science called actigraphy. It will then help you figure out what your optimal wake-up time should be.


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Now this seems very cool to me. It would be even cooler IMO (if it doesn't do this) if it could -while it's tracking your sleep cycles-automatically tell your Phone's Alarm when you should wake up and ring at that specific time.

I don't think I would use it very much because my primary problem is not being able to go to sleep until sometimes pretty late and then having to wake up early for work or b/c of kiddo. But I think it would be ideal for the busy single adult.

Would this be something any of you would use?

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Re: Want a Good Night's Sleep? There's an App for That!

I think I really need ot get an iPhone. Just don't want AT&T Cranky


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Re: Want a Good Night's Sleep? There's an App for That!

then go buy an Ipod touch and put Fring on it with skype it the next best thing ! Or go and have the iPhone unlocked for another sim card ! Has to be used with another sim card cell phone service ! Example I know people who use T-mobile with the iPhone

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Re: Want a Good Night's Sleep? There's an App for That!

What is fring? I've never heard of it. And can skype on it be used for free or does it cost?

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Re: Want a Good Night's Sleep? There's an App for That!

Well I know that skype is not free. I had no clue on what fring was so I went looking and found this on their site

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Re: Want a Good Night's Sleep? There's an App for That!

Thanks for the video ! never seen that before !

I have used fring for about four months now and love it !

Only bad side is I can't check my voicemail to my outside phones from it so I use the skype app for that !

Just so you know the reason to have fring is :
1. You can leave in on after signing into your iPod or iPhone and get phone calls for free !

2. Once you close Skype , skype wont let you accept any incoming calls but with Fring it has Pop notifications so if you login to skype through it will let you recieve calls while surfing around on your iPod just as if it was a cell phone !

NOTE: You need a mic on the ipod to get it to work ! Which I can help ya get for under $7 and works great !

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Re: Want a Good Night's Sleep? There's an App for That!

Skype is free if you are calling to another skype phone or calling username ! It only cost if you calling outside the skype network ! Now if everyone installed skype on there mobile phones noone would ever pay high cell phone bills Wink and cell phone companies would keep lowering their rates to try and beat the comp!

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Re: Want a Good Night's Sleep? There's an App for That!
GeekGirl wrote:

You know that if you sleep too little .

"There's been at least two epidemiological studies to show that if people get less than five hours, it increases their mortality,"

So your saying I should get this??

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