Can tech help improve your sleep?
Marketplace Tech
Marketplace
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🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
We’re a few days into CES now, and amid the demos, launches, meeting, greeting, keynotes and all the walking, there’s one thing on a lot of people’s minds: sleep. So, Marketplace’s Lily Jamali stopped by the National Sleep Foundation’s booth to meet some folks there thinking about sleep. She spoke with Biquan Luo, co-founder and CEO of Lumos Tech, whose company makes what looks like a regular sleep mask, but has embedded LED lights. It’s designed to help recalibrate a user’s sleep schedule.
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| 0:00.0 | flashing lights to help you sleep when in Vegas. |
| 0:05.0 | From American public media this is marketplace tech. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Lily Dramale. It's my third day at CES and amid the demos, launches, meetings, greetings, keynotes, and all the walking. |
| 0:27.0 | There's one thing that's been on my mind, sleep. |
| 0:30.0 | So I stopped by the National Sleep Foundation's booth to meet some other folks thinking about sleep. |
| 0:36.2 | I spoke with B. Tranlo, co-founder and CEO of Lumos Tech. |
| 0:40.9 | Her company makes what looks like a regular sleep mask, but there are LED lights |
| 0:45.8 | embedded in the mask which is designed to help recalibrate a user's sleep |
| 0:49.8 | schedule. I am intrigued so I ask her how the eye mask works. |
| 0:55.0 | You're going to tell us what is your current bedtime |
| 0:58.0 | and then when you want to move your bedtime too. |
| 1:01.0 | So if you're a night out that always go to bed at 3 a.m. but you want to |
| 1:04.6 | become an early person then you would just tell us I'm currently going to bed at 3 a.m. |
| 1:09.4 | But I want to go to bed at 11 a.m. be able to fall asleep. You're saying that's possible I can |
| 1:14.0 | go from being a night out to an early bird? Yes. I'll believe it when I see it. Oh yeah. |
| 1:19.5 | It's quite a proposition I like like it. Yeah, so by adjusting your circadian clock, |
| 1:25.8 | you're able to move your sleep schedule. |
| 1:28.6 | And then once you program in the app, |
| 1:30.9 | it's going to determine what is the best sleep program for you. |
| 1:34.6 | Then it's going to send it to the mask. |
| 1:36.6 | So what you do as a user is you will put on the mask |
| 1:39.6 | before you go to bed at your normal bedtime. |
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