Tencent Digital (Compiled: Hamish) There are many wearable devices on the market that claim to improve sleep quality, but not many of them are really useful. A few days ago, a new product named Thim landed on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter, adding another fire to the market.
Thim is a smart ring worn on the finger and the sponsor said it can help sleepless people get better sleep. The technical foundation of this product comes from the research results of Leon Lack, Emeritus Professor at Flinders University in Australia.
“Ryan Lake is a world-renowned expert in sleep psychology. He found that if people experience sleep feeling again and again, they will learn how to fall asleep faster,†said Ben Olsen, founder of Thim. "In other words, spending one night retraining your body for sleep will help you fall asleep faster on the next night."
This “sleep retraining†involves depriving people of a night's sleep, and the moment they start with the pillows on their heads. As with any form of training, this is a skillful process. Training will allow people's bodies to become aware of their sleep in a short period of time. In the study, Lake found that trained users entered sleep more than half an hour faster than normal people, and their sleep time was extended by one hour more than the average person.
Ben Olson said that he had the privilege of working with Lake in 2012 and that this product was inspired by the collaboration. "I later had time to build a new product, which became an obvious choice." He said.
The Thim smart ring "reappears" Lake's research: After wearing it, it gently wakes people up three minutes after the user falls asleep, interrupting the sleep process. The company stated that the entire awakening process is not invasive and "users only feel awakened by the rustling sound of the breeze blowing the leaves." When the user falls asleep again for three minutes, it will be woken up again and the whole process lasts for about one hour. Afterwards, the user can sleep peacefully all night.
In addition to the night's sleep, the Zhim Smart Ring can help users get high-quality snoring during the day, allowing the user to be more energetic during the day.
Olson said: “We want to help people who are difficult to sleep fall asleep, too many people suffer from insomnia and low quality of sleep. We want to change this situation and make millions of people sleep well through scientific research.†This is a cool feeling.†The initial price of this product on Kickstarter was 83 US dollars (about 553 yuan).
Source: Digital Trends
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