SleepTracker Pro Elite Sleep Monitor

• Digital watch monitors your sleep patterns to help you wake up feeling refreshed
• Monitors physical data and wakes you at an optimal almost-awake moment
• Offers vibrating alarm, ringing alarm, or both
• Back-lit, digital display includes day and date
• Includes software to help you track your sleep patterns

Product Description

Color: Male Version

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Worn like an everyday watch, SLEEPTRACKER® is ideal for anyone who wants to wake up alert and ready to start the day, such as frequent travelers across time zones, business people looking for an extra edge, students with fluctuating schedules, or busy moms who need to wake up easily. SLEEPTRACKER® may find multiple almost-awake moments within the sleep cycle. Almost-awake moments may also vary in frequency throughout the night. By monitoring your sleep cycles for optimal waking moments during the preset ALARM WINDOW, SLEEPTRACKER® finds those almost awake-moments and gently wakes you when you're most alert. The result? You wake up refreshed instead of groggy. Waking up has never been easier.

Ideal for anyone who wants to wake up alert and ready to start the day. View larger.

Put an end to that tired feeling, and get a few extra minutes out of your day! View larger.

How does SLEEPTRACKER® work?
SLEEPTRACKER® continuously monitors signals from your body that indicate whether you are asleep or awake. Because you wear SLEEPTRACKER® on your wrist like a watch, its internal sensors can detect even the most subtle physical signals from your body. SLEEPTRACKER® finds your best waking moments, so that waking up has never been easier.

When you sleep, your body goes through a series of sleep cycles. The average adult experiences 4-5 full sleep cycles over an 8-hour period. Each cycle lasts about 90-110 minutes and comprises five different stages, as illustrated by this chart.

Product Description

Worn like an everyday watch, SLEEPTRACKER is ideal for anyone who wants to wake up alert and ready to start the day, such as frequent travelers across time zones, business people looking for an extra edge, students with fluctuating schedules, or busy moms who need to wake up easily.

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Why SLEEPTRACKER® works: The Key to Waking Up Refreshed Why is it so hard to wake up to a normal alarm clock? Because a normal alarm clock can't detect where you are in your sleep cycle - a continuous cycle from deep sleep, to brief almost-awake moments, and back to deep sleep again. Occasionally, your alarm may catch you at an optimal, almost-awake moment and you wake up feeling refreshed, but usually you grope for the snooze button waking up tired and groggy. Wake at Your Perfect Time SLEEPTRACKER® puts an end to that tired feeling. Once you set its alarm window, it monitors your body and continuously looks for your optimal waking times so it can wake you at just the right moment. Imagine not feeling tired in the morning and getting a few extra minutes out of your day! Sleep Facts: No two people have the same sleep cycles, and nobody has the same cycle twice. Many factors can influence sleep cycles, including diet, exercise, medications, drugs or alcohol, stress, sleep disorders, and sleep deprivation. Age and gender can play a role, too: women tend to sleep more soundly than men, and as we age, we sleep more restlessly. A typical sleep cycle has five stages and takes 90-110 minutes. During Stage 1 of your sleep cycle, you sleep lightly. At Stage 2, your sleep gets progressively deeper. At Stages 3 and 4, also known as "Delta Sleep," you sleep most heavily; this is when your body rebuilds itself. Stage 5 of sleep, also known as REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, is marked by extensive physiological changes, such as accelerated respiration, increased brain activity, rapid eye movement, and muscle relaxation. People dream during REM sleep. In the first third of the night, Delta sleep stages last longer than REM stages. As the night progresses, Delta sleep diminishes in length. By the last third of the night, Delta sleep usually ceases, while REM stages lengthen.

Clinically Proven By a Major US University A recent study evaluation reveals that SLEEPTRACKER®, the world’s only sleep-monitoring watch, is nearly as effective in gathering specific sleep data as advanced sleep laboratory equipment. When comparing SLEEPTRACKER to lab tests, the watch successfully detects moments of restlessness during sleep 91 percent of the time. The evaluation study was independently conducted by Douglas W. Puryear, MD, FCCP, D. ABSM, director of Sleep Disorders Centers of Pulmonary Associates in Midlothian, VA. The primary purpose of the study was to compare SLEEPTRACKER with advanced sleep laboratory equipment in the proper detection of movement events while sleeping. "The popularity of SLEEPTRACKER had led many sleep researchers to inquire about its ability to monitor sleep events based on movement," said Lee Loree, developer of SLEEPTRACKER. "This new evaluation study only furthers what we already knew about the product – that it is effective in measuring the movements associated with a light sleep stage, helping thousands of people across the globe wake up feeling more refreshed."

Product Details Color: Male Version University of Minnesota Evaluation Study [PDF] Product Dimensions: 6 x 2 x 0.5 inches ; 1.8 ounces Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S. Origin: Imported (China) ASIN: B0026RHFPS UPC: 705105190211 Item model number: 705105190211 Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews) Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,573 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care) #29 in Health & Personal Care > Medical Supplies & Equipment > Health Monitors > Alcohol Monitors

Product Details

University of Minnesota Evaluation Study [PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 2 x 0.5 inches ; 1.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Origin: Imported (China)
• ASIN: B0026RHFPS
• UPC: 705105190211
• Item model number: 705105190211
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,573 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)
  • #29 in Health & Personal Care > Medical Supplies & Equipment > Health Monitors > Alcohol Monitors

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

89 of 98 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars if you don't sleep well, this won't tell you much September 10, 2009

By Steven C. Berridge

Color Name:Male Version|Amazon Verified Purchase

I started out with a ZEO - which I highly recommend so maybe I was expecting more. But at $175+ this thing doesn't tell you much. I thought it gave some output as to the duration of sleep levels - kind of implied by the graphic on their website, instead it gives a single value called Data A, which means the average time between 'awakenings'. It does tell you when the awakenings occurred in a table format. btw, the first night it gave me a 20, then after ~ 40, which their literature says is all in the normal range ~20-40. Well, I don't sleep that well and to see numbers like that assured me this device was not going to give me any useful information. Could be I awaken but am still enough so as not to trigger the accelerometer algorithms. The software is crude at best and lost some of my data. If you change any setting on the watch it erases the data. It only holds one night's data, so you have to download it every day. The usb connection to the watch is a large 3 pronged clamp that covers the mode button! which you have to use to put it in data mode - so you have to remember to do that before clipping the connector on.
I'm sure they did the connections this way to make the watch water resistant, but I wouldn't wear it as a day watch, and I sleep very little underwater. Upshot, if you want a more real look at the time you spend in different sleep state, time awake, times awakened, etc. I suggest you check out the Zeo. I'm not affiliated with them in any way. I sent my Zeo back because of the $400 price tag. Now I'm rethinking that. But like any of these things they can't make you sleep better, they can only tell you something about the structure of your sleep which may help you identify problems and fix 'em. It's up to you.... Also customer service took 2+ days to call back to answer a question. Read more ›

39 of 44 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Someone finally made a device that can wake me up in the morning! April 6, 2011

By Bob Tobias #1 HALL OF FAMETOP 10 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Color Name:Male Version

Length: 1:43 Mins

Bottom line: When I let the watch figure out when to wake me up I waking up a lot easier, more quickly, and feel more rested.

Background: As you sleep you constantly go back and forth from being "almost awake" to being "deeply asleep". If your awakened when you're deeply asleep you wake up groggy and if you're awakened when you're already almost awake then you wind up feeling much more refreshed.

Details:

With this watch you set the time you want to get up and a time window before then during which it should look for an "almost awake" point when it sounds the alarm. (Actually, you get a choice of an audible alarm, a vibrating alarm, or both). Also important is the watch is light and comfortable. I don't feel it on my wrist and it doesn't bother me while I'm sleeping.

With just that, the Sleeptracker is a great step forward in alarm clock technology but it doesn't address the "tracker" part. In addition to providing an effective way to wake up it also measures how well you've slept. That's done by recording the time between each "almost awake" point and also averaging them for the entire night. More time spent in "deeper sleep" usually means better sleep. You can review this information in the morning using the watch display.

But, it doesn't stop there. There's also a program you can load on your PC and a cable for transferring the daily sleep data into a database. (The software installs and runs without any problems on my 64-bit Win 7 system.) With the program you can review sleep data over time and even attach notes to each night's sleep regarding your pre-sleep activities to investigate correlations between them and sleep quality.... For example, you can see if having those three drinks and/or the Monte Cristo sandwich right before bed in any way affected your sleeping patterns. It's kind of like getting one of those expensive sleep studies without the inconvenience or expense. If you like, you can even export the data to Excel for additional analysis.

Or, you can leave that technical stuff to the rocket surgeons and just let the watch wake you up.

BTW, I feel that honest, effective reviews, accompanied by detailed videos, can take the place of first-hand experiences that are often lacking in online shopping. I've always appreciated the help I've received from other reviewers and try to return the favor as best as I can. I hope you found this review helpful and the video at least entertaining. If there was anything you thought was lacking or unclear leave a comment and I'll do what I can to fix it. Read more ›

33 of 38 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product - really works! March 8, 2010

By LS Ventures

Color Name:Male Version|Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought this watch so that I could sleep within my sleep cycles, which on average is 90 minutes. 90 minutes contains all of the stages of sleep and at the end of a cycle you are sleeping at your lightest. If you can wake up at that time you will feel more rested. If you wake up at other points of the sleep cycle you will feel tired and sleepy all day long, even if you sleep for an extended period. What this means is that it is best to sleep in cycles that are multiples of 90 minutes - 1 1/2, 3, 4 1/2, 6, 7 1/2 hours. Using this watch I have been able to successfully sleep for less time and still feel rested. I always thought I needed 7 - 8 hours of sleep. Now I am rested with 6 hours nightly. I have even tried to sleep 4 1/2 hours with a power nap in the afternoon. That seems to work, but it is difficult to do.

Setting the watch is easy. You set the alarm and the time when you are going to bed. A window of time can be set in which the watch will wake you if it detects movement before the alarm goes off. The default is 20 minutes. It keeps track of movement throughout the night to monitor the sleep cycle. The alarm can be set to vibrate, buzz or both. To keep track of your sleep you can download software from the manufacturer's website. The watch comes with a USB connector through which data is downloaded to your PC. The software allows you to input the quality of sleep and has a place for notes so that you can keep track of details.

On a customer service note - The watch I bought through Amazon seemed to be defective. The alarm did not always sound. At first I thought I was just sleeping through the alarm, but several times I woke up just before the alarm. I deliberately did not move, and the alarm did not sound. I contacted Sleeptracker.... They told me to send back the watch (just the watch) and they would ship out a new one, usually within 48 hours. They did just that and the replacement works perfectly. The manufacturer will only make such an exchange if the watch was purchased from an approved vendor, like Amazon.com. I highly recommend this product.

Added December 17th 2010:
About a month ago the Sleeptracker stopped working. The I assumed it was the battery and contacted the manufacturer because I thought I had read somewhere that the battery should last about a year. I sent an email asking about this and received a reply from the CEO and inventor himself, Lee Loree. He asked how I used the watch and to told him that I use the alarm and vibrator to wake up. He explained that because I use the vibrator mode the battery is used up more quickly. He offered to send me some new batteries, for free, which he did. I have to say, I really like the product and I really like the customer service. Read more ›