Yomiuri Shimbun brings word that Toshiba has developed a portable “Sleep Measurer,” which apparently measures the depth of one’s sleep. In what the company has called the “world’s first” of such a device, normal consumers can measure the depth of their sleep from the comfort of their own home. The measurements are based on the user’s pulse. For the paranoid, it’s even got an optical sensor to be placed at the end of the fingertip to calculate the hemoglobins in your blood.
Technically speaking, Toshiba plans for this to be a wristwatch-type device, which is wirelessly connected to your PC. The software can show you your levels of sleep, from “deep” to three different levels of “shallow.” But perhaps even cooler than being able to monitor your sleep is being able to do something about it; Toshiba plans on conjoining this technology with that of air conditioners, lights, and even stereo systems to create a “pleasant sleeping environment.”
Read – “Measure depth of sleep easily, Toshiba develops ‘sleep measurer’ [Yomiuri Shimbun]
