Need to improve your sleep? Here are the best sleep gadgets for sweet dreams

Your phone’s blue light is the enemy of sleep - but the right tech can actually improve your sleep 
Lack of sleep and poor productivity at work costs the UK economy £40.2 billion
Grace Gould3 May 2018

I was at an event recently about “sustainable luxury” to launch a very fancy car.

However when everyone was asked to answer the question, “what is your biggest luxury?’” people didn’t say couture or a private jet.

Instead, they said they wanted sleep. Time to sleep and time to sleep in.

The data backs this up — one in three adults in the UK are kept up at night with insomnia.

In theory, tech should not be the obvious bedfellow of sleep. Your mobile phone should be out of the bedroom. Its blue light keeps you up at night.

However, these are the products which I’ve tried and tested that really do work.

The best sleep tech to try

1. Dreem Headset

Five different EEG sensors mix with bone conduction sound technology to supposedly optimise your sleep

2. Ghostbed Pillow

The team at Natures Sleep have invented a new material that keeps your pillow cool at night.

The GhostBed pillow (GhostBed )
GhostBed

3. Pillow Talk

A set of devices that lets you hear a loved one’s heartbeat in real time as they sleep.

£136 for pair

Littleriot.com

4. Gravity Blanket

Reduces anxiety by making you feel like a coddled baby. Developed during treatment of patients with PTSD.

£178

The Gravity Blanket
Gravity Blankets

5. Simba Hybrid Pillow

Uses nanotube technology to aid temperature regulation and ventilation to keep you cool.

£65

6. Suzy Snooze

A three-in-one product for hip parents: baby monitor, night light and sleep trainer. Music was written by DJ Erol Alkan.

Suzy Snooze
BleepBleeps

7. Beurer Wake-Up Lamp

Light slowly wakes you up, starting an hour before your alarm is set, until it reaches the brightness of summer.

8. Withings Aura Sleep Sensor

Tracks and improves quality of sleep using light and sound programs

£109.93

Withings Aura Sleep Sensor (Withings )
Withings

What you need to know about sleep

The right stuff

Most adults should get between seven and eight hours sleep a night, but just 40% of us get this on a daily basis.

Workmare

The average employee loses 11 hours and 41 minutes of sleep a week due to work concerns.

55 per cent of us now have dreams about work, with over a third even dreaming about work while they’re on holiday.

High-tech lullaby

Tech start-up Silence & Air has created the world’s first scientifically-proven music track, Zero Point, for improving sleep and reducing insomnia

Sleep tax

Lack of sleep and poor productivity at work costs the UK economy £40.2 billion. This will rise to £47 billion by 2030 if trends continue.

Clean air

Sleep is improved by 50 per cent if you open the bedroom door for ventilation, according to a recent study by indoor air quality company Awair.

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