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Since an average person spends about one third of the life sleeping, it is natural that sleep quality has a big impact on one’s health. Yet, people have surprisingly little monitoring and control of their sleep. The company called Eight Sleep created a smart Mattress, Pod, which tracks sleep phases, respiratory rate, and heart rate. Using water channels inside, the mattress controls its temperature based on these biometric feedback to improve the quality of sleep. The tracking and temperature control can be done for two people in the same bed such that two sides of the mattress may have different temperature. The mattress also tracks room temperature and humidity to enhance its performance. Pod also comes with a mobile app that allows remote temperature setting and generates sleep reports and insights.
Summary
Purpose
To monitor sleep quality
Idea
Put sensors in mattresses to monitor and track sleep phases and related medical data.
Further Possibilities
1. Smart home that tracks health-related activities
2. Smart office that tracks work-related stress and mood
3. Influence dreams with mattress temperature control or other functions
4. Dream therapy based on smart mattresses
5. An AI-assistant tracking all the health data for improving well-being
Questions
1. What might be all the conditions that can be controlled to improve health?
2. How might we visualize one’s health situation?
3. How might one’s health being automatically improved?
