I got a Zeo a few days ago and it’s pretty fascinating!
You wear a headband with a doodad that reads your brain’s electrical patters through your forehead, and it logs what “mode” your brain was in throughout the night. Then you upload the data to their website and look at the graphs to see how you slept. “Hmm, I only got an hour of REM sleep last night, I wonder why?”
Kind of crazy that they can do that … seems very futuristic. I feel like self-monitoring tools will keep getting more popular. It’s certainly more efficient than therapy…
WHAT?!?!?!
Wow, I REALLY want this.
It’s funny, I’ve been watching the reboot of battlestar a lot recently and they (obviously) have a lot of talk about cylons and machines and humans and that occasionally (theoretically) iffy area inbetween. And last night I set up my daytum account which allows me to track and chart anything I want in my life and I linked it to my twitter so I can update it from my cell phone and now my new cell phone gets emails and i’ve linked my self into so many programs, so much software, that I can’t help but feel slightly liked a networked computer at this point. That in some sense I am merely a hub in a dendritic network of all these tangentially related programs that collect data from me and carry out there operations.
Am I becoming less human?
I actually could not want this less. Everything in my day is measured and analyzed and filled with stress already. I don’t need to fret about the quality of sleep I am getting. I want to continue to wake up anxious and tense without any numbers to prove that I should be.
Also, I’m pretty sure you are still human Cody, because robots are pretty good at knowing the difference between “there” and “their.” BURN!
I think I’m with Jason on this one—I definitely don’t want this thing.
But, I think all this discussion misses the point. The person who originally posted this asked the example question of, “Hmm, I only got an hour of REM sleep last night, I wonder why?” (which, by the way, isn’t actually a question). Well, I have an answer—maybe he didn’t get much sleep last night because he was wearing an elasticized headband with a hard-plastic sensor on the front of it.
I feel like if I had one of these zeo things, plus the retainer I still wear to keep my teeth straight, and the ‘night guard’ I sometimes wear instead of the top retainer to keep me from grinding my teeth to the roots, I’d end up as the punchline in that Mitch Hedberg joke—“Man, you sure have a lot of cranial accessories.”
Plus, I don’t need a machine to tell me how well I slept. I can just figure that out based on what music I choose to listen to while driving to work, or, alternatively, how many other drivers I curse at during my morning commute.
