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What is it and why should i care about it?

You know how sleeping is a nice thing you do at the end of the day? No longer! Now it’s a terrifying experience involving a face mask full of electronics and, wouldn’t you know it, a flipping companion app.

What? but why would you do that, guru?

The idea is twofold: ultra-accurate and apparently scientific sleep analysis via a big bundle of sensors, and stimulation during REM sleep to help throw you into the trippy and fashionable land of lucid dreaming.

OKay, let’s st art with the sensors.

You can measure the four major brain wave food groups – Alpha, Beta, Theta and delicious Delta – to sense precisely what your brain is doing, and what state of sleep you’re in, while you doze. There’s a pulse oximeter to check your pulse rate and oxygen saturation, a thermometer, and a motion sensor to check just how often you’ve elbowed your partner in the face during the night. All of this combines into a graph mapping out your stages of sleep and, for the gamers out there, an overall sleep score.

Sure, but What else does it do?

It resurrects an old idea. Guru can’t work out if he last saw it used in dodgy meditation tents at lower-tier music festivals or in the movie A

Clockwork Orange‚ whereby a pair of LEDs over your eyes flash coded messages into your face at certain points during the night to attempt to control your brain.

How did it do on its kickst art campaign?

This open-source version of the tech, meant for enterprising sleep hackers, has achieved its dream, pulling in almost twice its goal at press time. You can buy the closed source one now.