Zeo Personal Sleep Coach
Quick! If you could have more of one thing in your life, what would it be?
If you’re a parent, “more sleep” is likely one of your top answers to this question.
Even though my kids have slept through the night for a few years now, a good night’s rest still seems hard to come by. Maybe it’s aging, maybe it’s lifestyle – I really don’t know. But I don’t sleep as well as I used to.
Well now, there is a technology that you can use at home to track, analyze and improve the quality of your sleep.
It’s called the Zeo Personal Sleep Coach.
Zeo consists of a light wireless headband that you wear to sleep. It tracks your sleep quantity, quality and other patterns, and sends that data to a bedside monitor and display (which is also a clock, it appears).
Using Zeo’s web-based tools, you are able to see how much REM sleep you achieved each night. You can see how many minutes (or hours!) you were actually awake.
Zeo’s tools include a personal “coach” that allow you to assess what factors might be affecting your sleep quality and make lifestyle changes to address it. For example, this chart shows a person’s sleep quality tracked against alcohol consumption.
Combined with a sleep journal, the idea is that you can implement positive changes in your daytime and nighttime routines to improve your sleep quality (called ZQ).
This seems like a really cool product. My mom, who’s 72, wakes up at 2 or 3 every morning and never goes back to sleep. I would love to give her this so she could pinpoint the source of her sleep difficulties and perhaps figure out how to sleep in a little.
Zeo is available at several online retailers, including Amazon. It runs about $199. Amazon’s reviewers have been mixed on the product. Some rave about it, and some say the data is inaccurate.
I’m sure for people who are struggling with sleep issues, though, it might be worth a shot. $200 for a better night’s sleep seems like a drop in the bucket!
