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the name of this product makes me think it's supposed to track one's wireless activity or at least detect wireless connections available nearby, but the description makes me think otherwise. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Your-Choice-Flex-Wireless-Activity-Sleep-Band-with-Bonus-25-Walmart-Gift-Card/29218003
Thursday, 28-Nov-13 08:52:06 UTC from web-
@pony It tracks your activity wirelessly. It's a fancy pedometer. I used to have one like it (but a different brand) and it'd track how much you moved about by counting steps, calculate calories burned, stuff like that. It'd track sleep by measuring nocturnal movements
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@ceruleanspark I was wondering how it tracked sleep.. like maybe it magically monitored brainwaves. kind of a neat thing I suppose.
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@pony You can /get/ ones that do, but they're much more expensive. The Zeo is one.
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@pony of course movement tracking seems less magicool than alien remote brain probing technology, but that's cool too
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@ceruleanspark oh wow
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@pony and the benefit they provide over motion trackers isn't really clear enough to justify the difference in price
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@ceruleanspark right. I can see that being a drawback to the coolness of brainwave-probe-age
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@pony Plus wearing something on your wrist is /way/ more comfortable for sleeping than wearing a computer strapped to your head
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@ceruleanspark Thusly I imagine not a good guage on how you sleep normally.
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@ceruleanspark oh I was thinking that the brainwave monitor was somehow able to do so remotely like the NSA does to everybody. That's less cool
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@awlderpy Yeah. That's why I favour the "smartphone on the bed" approach.
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@awlderpy Actually they're pretty accurate. They track it by recording how much you shift and move during the night, which is a good indicator of whether you enter deep sleep or not.
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@ceruleanspark I don't see how that ever works. I tried doing it with my smartphone once and I woke up with the phone on the floor with sexy ladies on slideshow.
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@ceruleanspark What are we gonna do on the bed
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@pony No, it's a slightly more portable version of the electrodes they use for sleep testing/lie detection/ECGs that links wirelessly to a base station someplace in your house.
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@thelastgherkin The phone may or may not be recording video
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@flamingpandaomg Perhaps for when (if) you fall asleep yes they can be accurate. My question is how easily or difficult is it to fall asleep with wearing said apparatus.
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@awlderpy I couldn't say for sure since I've never used a band and I don't feel like dropping $100 to test.
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@flamingpandaomg Precisely, which is why at least for now I'll try this SleepCycle app @ceruleanspark pointed me towards (tonight I swear)
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@ceruleanspark I've never got it to work. I always end up knocking the phone off the bed because I toss and turn a grapes ton when I sleep.
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@flamingpandaomg Tuck it under the corner of your bedsheet
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@ceruleanspark I see. I see. *dresses in tin foil*
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@ceruleanspark nice idea
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@pony Do not wear tinfoil hats. This hackneyed technique doesn’t work at all. Helicopters could mind-scan you through twenty feet of lead. You shouldn’t wear these homemade hats because it draws unnecessary attention to yourself. It’s pathetic and paranoid. The Secret Police are embarrassed for you.
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@ceruleanspark How about high powered magnets?
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