Would you be comfortable sleeping in high-tech PJs that track your breathing, heart rate and sleeping position?
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts have some exciting news to wake up the sleepy world of slumberwear.“We’d like to bring this to market in the next couple of years,” says UMass Professor Trisha Andrew, one of the scientists behind the product. “If Apple wants to contact us, we’re certainly open to that. We’ve been talking to a couple of companies.”
The so-called smart pajamas or “Phyjamas” will be able to monitor your sleep in ways that the current generation of wearables can only imagine. The jammies can track not just your breathing and heart rates, but even the position in which you are sleeping. That also means we don’t have much research data on how people are sleeping and why so many of us aren’t getting a good night’s sleep. Widespread use of “Phyjamas” could give researchers massive amounts of data to crunch.
The process of manufacturing the materials is not very expensive, and the main cost of the prototypes was “the cost of the cotton,” says Andrew.Sleep quality plays a significant role in people’s health and even affects the overall economy. People who sleep less than six hours per night on average have a 13% higher mortality risk than those who sleeps between seven and nine hours, a RAND study found. Poor sleep leads to a less productive work day, costing the U.S.
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