The gift of the good snooze

One of the bizarrest of the invitations that the new phone applications offer is this sleep analysis.

Each night you bed your phone down next to you and it monitors your level of sleep. I suppose what it is really doing is measuring how much you toss and turn.

It then decides when to set off the alarm (within 30 mins of the desired waking time)...so that you don't get startled.

It sort of seems to work, though I had my doubts.

You can then review your night's sleep.

The graph alongside is one such and was particularly interesting for me, because I was beginning to doubt it's validity.

I said to K as we made our morning coffee...how did you sleep last night? She said...did you hear the incredible storm during the night...I observed that I hadn't registered any storm.

She assured me there was such about 3.45 a.m,.

I just thought I slept through. But, if you observe the sleep graph, sometime shortly after 3.30 I was obviously roused from my deeper slumbers! So it looks as though it works.

The only question is what use to make of this information other than to be reassured that I am obviously doing pretty well in the sleep stakes. Or alternatively that I lie pretty still even when I am awake. This too is true!

20 things I don't know

I was faintly bemused (but not at all surprised) to find that certain members of my household were already looking at getting an iPhone...even though they will not be available in the land of Oz until 2008.
Apple have done a good job of convincing everyone to buy their iProducts even when they are often less featured and almost certainly more expensive than comparable products. And not necessarily more reliable.
We have an iPod, for example, which gave up the ghost days after the 1 year warranty expired. Researching on the net would seem to suggest that this was not an uncommon experience worldwide. Its owner, the oldest daughter, finally got fed up of me trying to fix it and bought another one!!! The cheaper version..the shuffle. Miraculously the day after she bought it I got the first one to work!! So I inherited it. Good for me. But it still stops every now and then if you so much as breathe heavily near it. And it cost a fortune.
PC World has a good article about 20 things that need to be explained before you commit to the new iPhone. But we have a couple of years to wait.
But there is a big warning here, n'est-ce-pas, about the triumph of advertising over reason