GET SOME SHUT-EYE
CES 2019 was awash with high-tech gadgets to help you get a good night’s sleep
1 DIAGNOSING DISORDERS
For a state-of-the-art diagnostic sleep test, you’d normally have to fall asleep in a lab, while wearing uncomfortable EEG electrodes. The Dreem Band measures the same things as the EEG electrodes: brain activity, heart and breathing rates, eye movement and muscle activity, and claims to be able to use those measurements to teach you to sleep better.
Dreem Band
$500 (£390 approx), dreem.com
2 LITTLE SPOON
Somnox claims you’ll subconsciously synchronise your breathing with the pulses of this soft, kidney-shaped robot as you cuddle it, which can help you drift off to sleep. While we were sceptical about snuggling a robot, it felt surprisingly good, like cuddling a very docile cat. It’s got napping functions too, to give you something to spoon during a daytime kip.
Somnox Sleep Robot
£499, meetsomnox.com
3 GET A BLUE BOOST
Light therapy has been used to treat seasonal affective disorder for years, but this is the first time it’s been condensed down to the size of a ballpoint pen. PocketSky is a pipe that folds out and wraps in front of your eyes like glasses, shining ‘near-natural’ blue light into your peepers. It might boost wakefulness and get you back into normal circadian rhythm, but you’ll look dorky in the process.
PocketSky
£TBC, pocket-sky.com
4 SLEEP, CUSTOMISED
With the help of a smartphone app, you can adjust the firmness of each side of Sleep Number’s mattresses, so you can doze off on a rockhard slab while your comfort-loving partner can snooze on something altogether softer. The mattress also records biometric sleep data without you having to wear a sensor, and can be used to diagnose conditions such as sleep apnoea and restless leg syndrome.
Sleep Number
From $999 (£780 approx), sleepnumber.com
5 CHILL OUT
To fall asleep, your body needs to decrease its temperature, which is why flipping your pillow over to the cold side feels so good. Moona has made that feeling last all night by creating a cooling system for your pillow. Set the desired temperature using the bedside control unit, and it pumps water chilled to your preference into a pad that sits in your pillow case, helping you create the perfect conditions to drift off.
Moona Self-Cooling Smart Pillow
£300, getmoona.com