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October 31, 2005
SleepTracker Hands-on Review
"SleepTracker - An innovative device designed to monitor your sleep cycles and awaken you at the optimal moment, leaving you refreshed and ready to start the day. " Ok that sounds all well and good but does it work? Well lets find out. geekBlue got our geeky hands on one to test out and see if it could really help us be refreshed during the day. Read the rest for the full review. |
We've had this device now for two weeks. I've tested it and other editors tested it but our results are different. One thing you need to understand about everyone is that sleep patterns are different and well some guys just don't want to get up no matter what you throw at them. I'm not going to name any names (chris) but we took his results out. For the rest of us this device can be very useful. Out of the many times I tried it 80% of the time it woke me up close to the set time and I felt better during the day. Although it did take a couple days to get used to and personal results may vary. One issue was I don't sleep with anything on my wrists but it didn't bother me after a couple nights. |
The basic shape and design are nothing different than your average wrist watch. Without looking and knowing that's exactly what it could be. During standby it has a clock so you could use it for time as well but don't get me wrong this is a sleep tracker device not a wrist watch. Once you read the instructions and set your time to go to bed, your time to wake up, and the window you allow the watch to wake you up, you're all set. Strap it on good and tight and head to sleep. During the night people have sleep patterns that bring them close to waking and back down deep into sleep. What this device does is read those patterns and finds the best possible time to take you up during the window you provide. If I set the SleepTracker to wake me up at 6:00am with a 20min. window that means sometime within that window, hopefully as close to 6 as possible, the device will sound it's alarm. The reason it sounds is that I came up out of a deep sleep, based on my pattern and it saw that. Waking me up when I'm out of the deep sleep and closer to being awake, the device can wake me with ease. That means my body won't feel like I'm being beat up in the mornings. |
I used it many times and 80% of the time it worked as it said it would work. The other times were special times where sleep was needed more and I would feel bad no matter when it woke me. Also it takes a couple days to get used to so don't expect same night results. Overall this is a great product. It works as it says and I have felt better about more days now. You don't have to reset your alarm or windows every night. The device won't wake you up the same time every night unless that is when your pattern moves up. Special note: get into a regular time to get up and this device will help you optimize the time around it to wake. Retail price is $149. Pros: Cons: Purchase SleepTracker - HERE Durability Tested: *geekBlue was not paid to do this review. All comments and opinions are true and solely based on the testing of the product. geekBlue does not endorse or promote any product. geekBlue does not sell products reviewed. For more information on products tested please visit the product website. Thanks for reading. |
Posted by geekblue at October 31, 2005 1:08 PM







