The Nest Hub blasts radar waves all over an unsuspecting sleeper. Google You’ll be warned when sleep sensing is active. Google The back of the Nest Hub gen 2. It looks identical to the old one. Google A sleep-sensing report you’ll get in the morning. Google A more detailed sleep-sensing screen. Google A sleep-sensing report […]
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A Google smart display with radar-based sleep tracking is reportedly happening
Enlarge / The current Google Nest Hub. A “sleep-tracking smart display” sounds like something you might come up with if you were pulling tech product buzzwords out of a hat, but that is the latest Google product rumor on the always-reliable 9to5Google. Earlier this week, a new Nest product hit the FCC with Project Soli […]
Air New Zealand unveils sleep pods for passengers in coach
Being cooped up in coach on a long-haul flight is never any fun, but Air New Zealand is planning to make things a little easier for its economy passengers. The carrier wants to offer lie-flat sleep pods for travelers on its longest flights, including its new 17-hour and 40-minute route between Auckland and New York […]
Don’t sleep on this Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening trailer
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is a remake of the Game Boy classic from 1993, and it’s due to be released on the Nintendo Switch next week. Younger Nintendo fans likely haven’t played the original before, and older players probably haven’t done so in several years. If that sounds like you, then the game’s […]
This futuristic autonomous pod hotel drives you around as you sleep
[embedded content] A world of self-driving cars is going to give us a whole lot more time, during which we would previously have been behind the wheel, to spend on everything from sending emails and watching Netflix to, well, getting a few extra hours of shut-eye. Focusing on this latter scenario, Toronto-based design studio Aprilli […]
Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep — it’s YouTube
Each day in India’s capital New Delhi, hundreds of thousands of people take the quiet subway across the widely crowded suburbs to reach their work. The quietness is interrupted every few minutes as the train reaches a station and an ever-growing population jostles to find a seat. Seconds later, everyone returns their attention to their smartphone […]
Apple sleep monitor clears FCC, hinting at future of Beddit devices
After purchasing Finnish sleep tracker accessory maker Beddit in May 2017, Apple shut down Beddit’s cloud service, cutting off new users this September and prior users last month. But the company apparently isn’t done releasing Beddit devices, as a new Apple-branded sleep monitor has just cleared the FCC, suggesting that the company will continue to address […]
This gadget lets you sleep on airplanes without snuggling a stranger
[embedded content] Ever drift off on a long flight, only to realize once you fell asleep, your head lolled to one side until it was resting on the shoulder of the stranger next to you? An odd Kickstarter gadget is vying to help travelers sleep comfortably on airplanes without snuggling with a stranger. The Napup Fly+ is […]
Widespread internet access is causing mass sleep deprivation, study suggests
We’re familiar with a lot of the arguments about why high-speed internet is among the greatest inventions in human history. But the internet can be bad for you, too — and, no, we’re not just talking about the howling post-apocalyptic wasteland that is the YouTube comments section. In a new study, funded by the European […]