BBC Science Focus - 10.2019

RADAR

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light helps to calm any mental chatter.

But does it work? After waking up

in the all-too-familiar early hours, I

turned the Dodow on. As promised,

it helped me chill out, but I was still

lying awake two hours later.

Still, it comes with a 100-day

money-back guarantee if you aren’t

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the lavender baths and mugs of warm

milk just aren’t cutting it.

WHAT I’ M

TESTING

Al i c e

Lipscombe-Southwell

PRODUCTION EDITOR

DODOW

£49, DODOW.COM

Do you often lie in bed, staring at the

ceiling, desperately trying to nod off? Or

do you wake up at 3am with your mind

racing at a million miles an hour? Dodow

promises to get your sleeping back on

track by encouraging deep breathing

techniques to help you unwind. The

discreet, wireless device sits on your

bedside table and with a tap of your

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light that contracts and expands for eight

minutes. The idea is that you breathe in

rhythm with the light: inhaling on the

expansion; exhaling on the contraction.

Dodow claims that this gradually slows

your breathing to six breaths per minute,

therefore putting you in a relaxed state,

While experts usually

encourage us to avoid blue

light at bedtime, Dodow

claims that its light is too

dim to disrupt sleep

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as the exhibition is BBC Radio 4’s 20-

part accompanying series, starting on

23 September, and a book of the same

name, published on 19 September. Plus,

subscribe to the Science Focus Podcast

to catch our interview with principal

curator Dr Tilly Blythe.

The painting Coalbrookdale By

Night symbolises the start of

the Industrial Revolution, and

is currently on display at the

Science Museum

RADAR

YJKNGZCVKPIQPVJGJ[RPQVKEDNWG

light helps to calm any mental chatter.

But does it work? After waking up

in the all-too-familiar early hours, I

turned the Dodow on. As promised,

it helped me chill out, but I was still

lying awake two hours later.

Still, it comes with a 100-day

money-back guarantee if you aren’t

UCVKUGFUQRGTJCRUKVoUYQTVJCVT[KH

the lavender baths and mugs of warm

milk just aren’t cutting it.

WHAT I’ M

TESTING

Al i c e

Lipscombe-Southwell

PRODUCTION EDITOR

DODOW

£49, DODOW.COM

Do you often lie in bed, staring at the

ceiling, desperately trying to nod off? Or

do you wake up at 3am with your mind

racing at a million miles an hour? Dodow

promises to get your sleeping back on

track by encouraging deep breathing

techniques to help you unwind. The

discreet, wireless device sits on your

bedside table and with a tap of your

PIGTKVRTQLGEVUCIGPVNGDGCOQHDNWG

light that contracts and expands for eight

minutes. The idea is that you breathe in

rhythm with the light: inhaling on the

expansion; exhaling on the contraction.

Dodow claims that this gradually slows

your breathing to six breaths per minute,

therefore putting you in a relaxed state,

While experts usually

encourage us to avoid blue

light at bedtime, Dodow

claims that its light is too

dim to disrupt sleep

QDLGEVUQHUEKGPVKEFKUEQXGT[#UYGNN
as the exhibition is BBC Radio 4’s 20-
part accompanying series, starting on
23 September, and a book of the same
name, published on 19 September. Plus,
subscribe to the Science Focus Podcast
to catch our interview with principal
curator Dr Tilly Blythe.

The painting Coalbrookdale By

Night symbolises the start of

the Industrial Revolution, and

is currently on display at the

Science Museum