Though the subjective measure of this study is better than nothing, in the coming years we'll be able to use sleep data for more concrete evidence.
At https://soundmind.co, we're building a headband focused on improving Sleep Performance, by monitoring your sleep state and using sound to alter sleep state. There is amazing research around improving sleep quality, by improving sleep maintenance (aka reducing waking during the night), increase occurrence and amplitude of sleep spindles, and more.
In initial trials, we've lowered average time awake from 1hr 41 minutes to 32 minutes, using a sample of 4 nights without stim, and 4 nights with. I need to do a blog post about that soon. We're still gathering more data.
If this is an area of interest, you can sign-up for the waitlist on our website, or happy to answer questions here.
I've signed up, because what you've said here sounds interesting - but good lord that website is hideous.
I would _never_ give a site like that my email. Consider at least showing your product/research/something that's not a stock image of... a Lion? A sunset? Waves on the beach?
Thanks Jake, I took a look at your profile, we're also Sydney based!
TBH, I'm a bit surprised as many people give us their email address as do. We really want this to be a waitlist, for people that want the product. We took a page out of SuperHuman on design.
In many ways, it's different strokes for different folks. Your response is the opposite of what we've heard from others, who love the design.
We're still in design of the final product, and have prototype units. If you want to see ugly, we've got that!
How would we show our research? The stock imagery seems to be working, so we'll stick to that until we have something more professional to show.
You could probably sell a similar product with zero scientific research behind it and people would buy it. So please do post back when you publish results! Very curious to see if something like this could help me have better sleep.
Are there at least preliminary papers you can cite as the basis for this idea? because it sounds super interesting.
Yeah, we're REALLY conscious of not selling snake oil. Life's too short to make useless crap. We've got a background in commercializing research and met in health-tech at CSIRO (Australia's science and technology research agency).
I want to write about efficacy of what we're doing, and how we approach that, as well.
At https://soundmind.co, we're building a headband focused on improving Sleep Performance, by monitoring your sleep state and using sound to alter sleep state. There is amazing research around improving sleep quality, by improving sleep maintenance (aka reducing waking during the night), increase occurrence and amplitude of sleep spindles, and more.
In initial trials, we've lowered average time awake from 1hr 41 minutes to 32 minutes, using a sample of 4 nights without stim, and 4 nights with. I need to do a blog post about that soon. We're still gathering more data.
If this is an area of interest, you can sign-up for the waitlist on our website, or happy to answer questions here.