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by rayiner 4344 days ago
Here is an interesting look at whether any of these sorts of devices actually work (in comparison to a real polysonogram): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-christopher-winter/sleep-ti.... The answer is: most of these things claim to be able to do a lot more with simple sensing techniques than they can actually do accurately.
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If your room is too hot, sense will tell you

...in case your skin can't

if your room is too bright, sense will tell you

...in case your eyes don't

I have no usable vision but can sometimes tell if a light is on. I don't know if light effects my sleeping though so that feature could actually be useful.
Can it sense my wife's mood and flash a certain color so I know to make up the couch?
If your room is too noisy, sense will send the data for further analysis ;)