Tracking your sleep can be an effective way to understand the links between lifestyle and health.
A month ago, I published an article and video on sleep tracking for Android Wear (now Wear OS by Google). This is the Apple Watch counterpart.
Apple’s superior app ecosystem extends to tracking sleep. There are multiple solid choices for sleep tracking using solely your iPhone or with your iPhone paired to an Apple Watch.
Today, a self-driving car caused the first fatality. It won’t be the last.
But let’s put things in perspective: In 2016, 37,461 people died on U.S. roads. That’s 102 deaths per day.
It’s hard to say whether a human driver or a computer is safer at this point. The best measure would be fatalities per vehicle miles traveled (VMT).
There were 1.18 deaths per 100 million VMT in 2016.
Like flicker, color is a widely-debated and often misunderstood topic among the lighting industry. In the past few years, we have seen the following changes regarding color:
A small Bay Area startup is changing the way we think about lighting.
Sunlight Inside has recognized that blue light is essential during the day but harmful at night. They just released mySun, one of the first lighting products that can change in color and brightness automatically throughout the day to support productivity and sleep.
If it’s not visible, it’s not a problem, right? Non-visible flicker is a common byproduct of LED circuit designs, and it can be hazardous to health, safety, and work performance.
Lighting manufacturers should be aware of some upcoming standards changes—including from the DLC—that could impact their ability to sell products with flicker in the near future.
The WELL Building Standard was launched in late 2014 with the goal of prioritizing the health and wellness of building occupants. It is most easily described as LEED for healthy buildings.
Like LEED, WELL operates on a scoring system in multiple categories, including air, water, and light. Some features are preconditions for certification, while others are optimizations. Depending on the number of features that pass, a project can be certified as WELL Silver, Gold, or Platinum.
WELL is quickly becoming an unstoppable force. In summer 2017, just 2.5 years after launch, there were 100 million square feet of projects completed or in progress worldwide. As interest has grown in healthy environments, the next 100 million will undoubtedly come even more quickly.
Tracking your sleep can be an effective way to understand the links between lifestyle and health.
Android users have access to a powerful, cheap app that combines a sleep diary with motion data recorded from your phone or smartwatch. In addition, the app includes a smart alarm clock that can reduce the feeling of grogginess upon waking.
Circadian lighting—lighting that changes color to promote sleep at night and energy during the day—is the future. There is significant evidence that blue light is necessary during the day and undesirable at night.
But until very recently, circadian lighting was extremely expensive and difficult to set up.
We all know how great we feel after a good night’s sleep. But most of us aren’t getting nearly enough quality sleep. The lack of sleep is damaging to our mood, health, and performance.
Let’s fix that. Here are 5 simple and cheap hacks to get the best sleep ever.
