"# Your Sleep Graph – summarizes your pattern of sleep phases each night. # Your ZQ - a single score we created to help you quickly gauge the quantity, quality, and depth of your sleep each night. # ZQ can range from 0 to 120 or more depending on factors like age, gender and stress level. # Total Z – how long you really sleep each night, counting any perceived and unperceived awakenings that we can detect. # Time to Z – the time it took you to fall asleep. # Time in Wake & Times Woken. # Total amount of REM, Light & Deep sleep. # Morning Feel – quickly record how you feel about your sleep when you wake up, so you can compare how you feel you slept to the objective data Zeo provides." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

via http://online.wsj.com/article... - Paul Buchheit

Is this the thing that was announced at Demo? - Kevin Pedraja

Okay, that's seriously cool, and considering my last week of not sleeping as well as usual I'd seriously consider it. $399 though. Hmm. - Kevin Fox

Has anyone tried it? I've been curious about my sleeping patterns -- it may be an interesting toy (assuming the headband doesn't disrupt my sleep). If I get one, you can borrow it Kevin :) - Paul Buchheit

This seems like the sort of thing one would want to rent, not buy. - DGentry

The Fitbit will also provide some of this sleep analysis - http://www.fitbit.com/ it's coming out soon - Mike Bracco

Awesome. - Kevin Fox

I also want a Fitbit, but it has been "coming soon" for a long time. Also, this looks like it will provide much better sleep data because it monitors brain waves or something -- I think the fitbit just monitors movement. - Paul Buchheit

@Paul - true. the sleep feature with fitbit is just for movement. This looks much more geared to the sleep side of things. I'm really excited for all of this body monitoring tools that are going to be coming out. I think the iPhone is going to be a huge driver of this. - Mike Bracco

What I am really interested to see is how the body monitoring and tracking tools will tie into social networks. That will be real interesting I think. The obvious one that already exists is for runners using the Nike+ or other like devices. However, more will come I think. - Mike Bracco

interesting. $399 sounds like a lot until you compare it with $1,500 for one night of a polysomnograph in a lab. :-D granted the PSG is more helpful diagonsing apnea or restless leg syndrome, but physicians could loan these out to patients fairly cheaply. too bad they had to add the disclaimer of "Zeo Personal Sleep Coach is neither a medical device nor a medical program and is not intended for the diagnosis or treatment of sleep disorders" -- no doubt to get around FDA approval requirements. - Karim

Maybe someone in this thread can answer as it's somewhat related: I heard that professional football teams give athletes a pill that they swallow and it submits data back to a device during their practice. I heard that teams started using it to monitor dehydration among other things (after a couple of players had died). Anyone know the company that makes this or has any info about it. - Mike Bracco

Does anyone know how this works? These sorts of things are usually a combination of EEG and EMG. - Gabe

I just did a sleep study to get this data at the cost of ~$1500. Turns out I have severe sleep apnea and was awakening about 53 times per hour. I'm on a CPAP machine now and feel much better in the morning. This would be an easy way to find out if you have a problem that needs treatment. You'll probably still have to go through a sleep study to get the machine prescribed. Paul, if you think you might have problems with a headband, you won't. If you need the machine you'll get used to a nose/mouth mask. Call me Darth. - Scott Maentz

I bet this is going to be particularly popular given the link between sleep and obesity, see e.g. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id... I wonder if companies might start requiring the use of something like this by pilots, truck drivers, or (!) medical residents. - Ruchira S. Datta