Do phone sleep trackers work?

Are sleep trackers on your phone helping you get a full night’s rest? NPR’s Life Kit investigates.

Sponsor Message

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST:

Wearable sleep tech, like smart watches or rings that take real-time health metrics, have made it super easy for the average snoozer to track their sleep from one night to the next. But is all that data giving you more rest or more stress? Life Kit reporter Andee Tagle investigates.

ANDEE TAGLE, BYLINE: One of the first things that Dr. Ravi Aysola often tells his patients is that insomnia, that is, trouble falling or staying

→ Continue reading at NPR - Technology

More from author

Related posts

Advertisment

Latest posts

They quit their day jobs to bet on current events. A look inside the prediction market mania

Logan Sudeith, 25, estimates he clocks about 100 hours a week on prediction...

This fish may play a hole in its head like a drum

For the rockhead poacher, the noises are all in its head.  The fish is a pint-size, unassuming inhabitant of nearshore shallows, but it has...

A long-lost tectonic fragment may be shaking Northern California

An earthquake-generating chunk of tectonic plate has been discovered beneath Northern California. It’s attached to the bottom of the North American plate like gum...