What Sleep Tracking Apps Can and Can’t Tell You.
Beth Skwarecki | 10/13/16 10:00am Activity trackers and sleep tracking apps will happily give you stats on your sleep: How many hours you were in the sack, for example, and whether that sleep was good “quality.” But you can’t take those numbers at face value, and some of them are flat out wrong. Sleep Trackers Don’t Really Analyze Your Sleep (Even If They Say They Do) We talked to Dr. W. Christopher Winter, a specialist in sleep medicine and neurology and author of The Sleep Solution. Dr. Winter previously brought Fitbit, Jawbone, and phone-based trackers to his sleep lab, …
Data Spotlights Average Sleep Patterns in U.S. Cities.
By James A. Martin | Feb 26, 2015 6:19 AM PT How does your average sleep time compare to other people in your city and across the United States? The folks at Northcube AB, developer of the Sleep Cycle sleep-monitoring app, crunched their numbers and came up with some valuable insights. Jacksonville, Fla., is the most stressed-out city in the United States, according to data from the folks behind Sleep Cycle, a sleep-tracking app for Android and iOS. Who knew? I’d have predicted New York, Chicago, Boston or Washington, D.C. Sleep Cycle is just one of many apps, wearables, and …