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One of the most useful cases for smart watches, for me personally, is sleep tracking. My LG G and my Pebble before it integrate with the alarm app Sleep for An
by commandar 11y ago
One of the most useful cases for smart watches, for me personally, is sleep tracking.
My LG G and my Pebble before it integrate with the alarm app Sleep for Android. Basically, I set a "I need to wake up by X time" in the app, the app uses the sensors in the watch to monitor how heavily you're sleeping, and will actually set off the alarm at the point within ~a half hour before the alarm time where you're sleeping lightest.
For someone like me that has a very, very hard time getting up in the morning, it's a fairly life changing thing. I also have Sleep tied in with a set of Philips Hues in my bedroom to have it start ramping up the lights to wake me up.
I'm still not a morning person, but I'm less likely to sleep straight through my alarm in the morning these days.
- owenwil 11y agoWhy wear a device to track sleep when you can just do it automatically without that? http://hello.is http://hello.is
- hmate9 11y agoWhy buy another device when you already have one with the same functionality?
- forgetsusername 11y agoBecause sometimes devices designed for a singular purpose can do it better than a device-of-all-trades?
- fredfoobar42 11y agoI actually do sleep tracking with my Apple Watch using the Sleep++ app. The Apple Watch's battery is good enough, and charges fast enough, that all I have to do is give it, maybe, 30 minutes of charging when I wake up, and another 30 before I go to bed. I just woke up after eight and a half hours of sleep, and had 88% battery left. Now, this was also with the Watch in Airplane Mode, but I've forgotten some nights, and still woke up with battery percentages in the same ballpark. (Data point: I wear the 42mm model. The 38mm has a smaller battery.)