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your bed instead, including smart mattresses with tracking technology built in.
These devices are often more accurate than wristbands, because they include
sensors for respiration, and they can more accurately sense how you shift while
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adjustments during the night that are tailored to you—say, warming your feet.
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There are simpler solutions than buying a new mattress, of course. The
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$99, it’s a comparative bargain. Or you could consider a smart pillow that plays
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although a PCMag analyst found it rather disappointing when she tested it.
Once you have data, you can look for reasons you wake up in the night or ways
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get up to two more hours of sleep per week. And a colleague once kept waking
up in the middle of the night. He tracked his sleep and noticed it always
happened at the same time. He eventually discovered that a certain noise
occurred every night at the same time. For him, ear plugs did the trick.
OTHER WAYS TO TRACK
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Smart water bottles that track your water consumption and remind you to drink
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something and hook it up to your mobile phone doesn’t mean you should.
Companies such as Thermos and Hidrate decided to try anyway. The results are
about as lacking in innovation and utility as you would imagine.