WakeMate, an application and wristband for use with your phone, tracks your nightly sleeping patterns, and recommends a perfect time for you to wake up depending on how your body’s sleep cycle.
You simply snap the wristband on before you go to bed, tell your phone (iPhone, Blackberry, Android and others) the latest time you’d like to wake up, and the WakeMate application will set off your alarm someone within 20 minutes before that latest time.
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Sleep tracking devices are really starting to become more popular. The Zeo Personal Sleep Coach is a relatively new sleep aid that builds on the research and attempts to take sleep optimization to the next level.
Zeo consists of 2 basic parts – a headband that you wear to bed, and a bedside display/data gatherer. The Zeo Bedside Display shows you a visualization of how your last night’s sleep went as well as how it compared to previous nights.
One particularly nice feature is that all of the data is stored on an SD memory card that you can then pop into your computer for upload to the myZeo website for further analysis, and storage in your own sleep journal. Research has shown that a sleep journal (like other journaling methods) is an effective way to detect and correct issues with your sleep.
Like other sleep aids that we’ve featured in the past (SleepTracker, aXbo and ZZZ Checker), the Zeo looks for that optimal point in your sleep cycle to attempt waking you.
Buy now!
More info from the manufacturer
Price: $249.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Recently we’ve found ways to bring retro products in to the modern world and this glass Foosball table by Teckell is no exception; it takes all the ‘traditional’ aspects of gameplay, and mixes it with extreme styling more fitting for today’s world.
The table is made out of glass walls and pitch, and has little wooden pegs for the players, with a basic white net at each side. Unknown is how well this stands up to the abuse I’ve seen doled out to foosball tables. I’ve been party to warping a few rods and breaking a few of those little soccer players!
Here are some of our notable articles for the past week. First we pondered whether Twitter’s popularity would last. Google News now has a Timeline of Events – nice feature.
We noticed that YouTube were looking to accept full length and legal content, while Fuijitsu have developed some secure new memory sticks. Adobe announced their plans to integrate Flash technology with TVs.
Oracle is picking up where IBM left off, buying out Sun for around $7 billion. That’s a lot of Rubik’s Cube Clocks!
No, it’s not a predictor of impending quakes, but the GraGraph will sound an alert and tell you how large the earthquake is on the Richter scale (anywhere from 3 to 10).
Hopefully, you’ll never have to use it, so for that reason, it has a built-in LCD clock, alarm and night-light! The GraGraph will also record prior seismic activity. It runs on 4 AA batteries.
This is a Japanese product, but you can snag one from an importer of Japanese products.
Price: $185
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
So how about this 7 inch widescreen LCD digital picture frame with clock, calendar and alarm? It’s only $59 (after $20MIR). The picture frame is widescreen which makes it easier to display landscape pictures and with a remote it’s easy to flip between pictures, click over to the calendar or clock setting.
It’s safe to say any Mother loves pictures of her kids, grand kids or anyone else in the family tree. That’s why you can’t go wrong with a digital picture frame.
With Mother’s Day still a couple weeks away, you can order this perfect gift today and have plenty of time to load it up with family photos. I did a similar thing for last years Christmas and it was a hit. Brought tears to Grandma’s eyes.
Considering the $60 isn’t too much for a Mother’s day gift, feel free to check out more details on the 7 inch widescreen picture frame.
As for the company line we have:
“The full-featured AXN-9702 7-inch digital picture frame functions as a calendar, clock, and alarm, and also supports MP3 music playback. It comes with a card-style remote control, built-in memory that can store up to 15 pictures (depending on size), USB input jack, and an AC/DC power adapter. The super-slim remote controls viewing and music options to enhance your experience without leaving the sofa.
Use the USB jack to download media directly from a USB flash drive. SD, xD, MMC and Sony Memory Stick flash media compatibility make it easy to show off pictures without a PC. MP3 playback, built-in speakers, and the calendar and alarm functions round out a cool, convenient multimedia experience.
Comes with manufacturer’s limited warranty (90 days Labor; 1 year Parts).”
Yep, we’ve certainly featured our share of iPods and (tons of) iPod accessories, but we hardly wanted to be biased. The latest Zen media player from Creative is stiff competition for Apple. The Zen V 4GB has a number of cool features under its very small belt at a price that would make Apple execs cringe. For starters, the Zen V fits in your palm, weighs in at less than 2 ounces, and includes a 1.5″ OLED screen that displays photos, menus and album art in full color. Ok, that’s all fine, but what else? How about the ability to support subscription services, synchronization with MS Outlook, a built-in microphone to let you record voice memos or lectures, and one of the best features: the ability to record directly from an audio source to the Zen without the need to rip it first to your PC. Oh yeah, this thing can run for 15 hours on a single charge.
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My wife and I are planning a trip to China next year and I might just have to take one of these Lingo Voyager’s along for the trip. This Lingo support 12 languages now including English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Koream, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic. This little pocket-sized talking interpreter with translate, display and correctly pronounce over 240,000 words and 27,000 typical phrases.
I sure hope the translator knows how to ask where the “good bathrooms” and not the squat pots are!
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The Geeks love cool new gizmos, and the AE Wi-Fi Internet Radio has excited us! The gizmo connects to your home WLAN so it can be placed anywhere that you have a good wireless connection. All three major streaming formats are supported so you could connect and the Internet gateway uploads channel listings alphabetically by country and genre to your radio.
The more I found out about the device, the more I liked it! It can actually connect and play your PC library of music and has a clock and alarm functionality!
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I love watches! Fossil makes some great designs and when we ran across a watch that automatically updates it’s time via various atomic clocks we need this would make a Gizmo of the Day! Now you can trust that your watch is displaying the correct time! Updating the time every day, you will know your watch is always right whether you are in town or across the globe… the Fossil even adjusts automatically for Daylight Saving Time which the Geeks are still recovering from!
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