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Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by Pyrodogg »

maghis wrote: post #63
dankoss wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance you could integrate it with a Hue or similar to do a light-based alarm, given it has wifi?

Of course! We are already integrated with some smart lights (Philips Hue and emberlight), we plan to integrate with more. We are also integrated with IFTTT for the devices we are missing.

This would be fantastic!

Light is essential for me to get up properly. I currently have an alarm that gradually ramps up a lamp in my room to full brightness. It works well, but the downside is that it only stays on full brightness for a set period of time which I can't change. I want my alarms to continue to pester me until i'm actually out of bed! regardless of what time it is while completely removing my sleepy self from the equation of mashing buttons.

Luna sounds like a great fit.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by Apocryphon »

ryanmcbride wrote: post #78
deanclatworthy wrote: post #46

My first instinct (being the geek that I am) upon seeing this was it looks great. And having lived in England the majority of my life, with cold houses and heating turned off at night - heated underblankets are a necessity. But as I read through the feature list, I couldn't help feel uncomfortable. Am I the only one that finds this deluge of technology into every aspect of our lives abhorrent? Every single day billio…

Just because it's not something that's necessary, doesn't mean that it's bad or "abhorrent". I want to live in a future with cyborg bodies and star trek doors and if you don't, well then I feel sorry for you.

It's not the technology, it's how society uses it. I don't want cyborg super-soldiers operating under a repressive extrajudicial Section 31-type agency with Star Trek doors coming after me.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by ctoscano »

maghis wrote: post #77
brian_cloutier wrote: post #59

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It's a really cool idea and great job on getting this far; I think I might order one. Does that mean both the device and your cloud have apis, or does it mean that an app which communicates only with the device can do the same things as your app which talks to both?

Any 3rd party app can do everything our app can do, the APIs we use internally are the ones that will be publicly available.

This is a commitment that inspires cooperation. The quantified self community needs gadgets like these, but also open platforms that encourages tinkering.

I just purchased a Luna Developer Pack[1].

[1]http://lunasleep.com/extras/

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by girvo »

maghis wrote: post #77
brian_cloutier wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a really cool idea and great job on getting this far; I think I might order one. Does that mean both the device and your cloud have apis, or does it mean that an app which communicates only with the device can do the same things as your app which talks to both?

Any 3rd party app can do everything our app can do, the APIs we use internally are the ones that will be publicly available.

Nothing but respect for that. You've pushed me over the edge and I've preordered one now :)

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by anigbrowl »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #101
deanclatworthy wrote: post #46

My first instinct (being the geek that I am) upon seeing this was it looks great. And having lived in England the majority of my life, with cold houses and heating turned off at night - heated underblankets are a necessity. But as I read through the feature list, I couldn't help feel uncomfortable. Am I the only one that finds this deluge of technology into every aspect of our lives abhorrent? Every single day billio…

I liked the idea initially, and for people struggling with hypo/hypersomnia or bad sleep in general it's probably going to be very useful to objectively measure the effect of lifestyle/dietary/medication changes. Then I read that the bed will be listening to my wife and me. That's really creepy. Together with all these 'AIs are going to kill us all articles' it reminds me of the Amazon Echo thread [1]... it carefully…

Yeah, monitoring your heart rate and breathing is a short step away from cataloging your sex life, or at least the part of it that takes place in bed, which is where most people like to get it on.

I am not that enthused about this whole 'quantified self' movement; it strikes me as Taylorism applied to leisure activities and now sleep. I have no confidence that the data will remain fully under user control; rather, incentives will appear that encourage people to grant non-revocable access for consumerist 'rewards,' which in turn will be employed to create consumer anxiety about suboptimal life patterns, which can be assuaged for the low, low cost of only $x/month.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management

I like technology a lot, but I don't care for the idea of being cocooned by it 24/7.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by r109 »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #46

My first instinct (being the geek that I am) upon seeing this was it looks great. And having lived in England the majority of my life, with cold houses and heating turned off at night - heated underblankets are a necessity. But as I read through the feature list, I couldn't help feel uncomfortable. Am I the only one that finds this deluge of technology into every aspect of our lives abhorrent? Every single day billio…

You forgot the smart wearable devices that track your GPS location, heart rate, pedometer, and graphs all your daily activities into a neat little dashboard that's accessible in the cloud. Don't forget to get order all your groceries online!

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by tlrobinson »

This looks great. I backed a project called Beddit which is similar, but just a single strip that measures your breathing and heart rate, but it never worked very well for me. Part of the problem was it required opening up the application and connecting to the Bluetooth sensor every. damn. night. [1][2]

The only way I can integrate quantified self gadgets into my life is if they are totally hands-off, passive data collectors. I don't want to charge a fitness tracker every night and remember to put it on in the morning. The best I can do is remember stand on my Withings scale a few times a week.

[1] http://www.beddit.com/

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beddit/id794968897

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

wernerb wrote: post #33

This looks really cool. I wonder though if my bed would not then be dependent on your servers at some point as I consider such a product as a long-term investment. For example, can it live without the server-side aggregation? Would you consider opensourcing parts of the server to enable people to use their own servers in the long run? Would you consider adding a respectable API that follows the ideas of for example,…

+1 on the API.
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