Zeo Personal Sleep Coach List Price: $199.00 Sale Price: $199.00 Average Rating:

Description

Your quality of sleep is central to your quality of life. Zeo is designed to help you analyze your sleep and improve it, so you can be your best every day. Zeo tells you how you really sleep, and helps you find ways to improve your sleep. It's composed of a lightweight wireless headband, a bedside display, a set of analytical online tools, and an email-based personalized coaching program. The Zeo Bedside Display puts last night's sleep data at your fingertips and will store up to two weeks of data for easy viewing. Sleep With Zeo Step 1: Wear the Zeo Headband You begin by wearing the Zeo Headband each night. The headband uses our patent-pending SoftWave sensor technology to accurately and safely measure your unique sleep patterns through the electrical signals naturally produced by the brain. As you pass through different levels of sleep--lighter to deeper and back again--the Zeo Headband tracks how you are sleeping. Step 2: Review Your Sleep Data on the Bedside Display The Zeo Bedside Display puts last night's sleep data at your fingertips and will store up to two weeks of data for easy viewing. When you wake up, it gives you a personal sleep score - your ZQ - and shows a graph of your Light, Deep and REM sleep over the course of the night. The bedside display will also present you with information about last night's sleep and how it compares to previous nights. The optional SmartWake alarm feature will look for a "natural awakening point" based on your sleep patterns to decrease the grogginess associated with waking from Deep sleep. When SmartWake is selected, Zeo will find a time to wake you within a half-hour of your set time, never later. The result should be a slightly easier way to wake up The Zeo Headband accurately and safely measured your unique sleep patterns. Easily upload all of your sleep information to the myZeo Personal Coaching website, and begin to spot trends in your sleep that you have never been able to see before. Using Zeo's online tools, you can begin to understand how your ZQ and morning feel scores change from night to night. See Sleep Data Step 3: Upload and View Your Sleep Data Your personal sleep discovery doesn't stop with the bedside display! The Zeo Bedside Display allows you to store your sleep information on an SD memory card (like the memory cards used with digital cameras). With your SD card and its USB adapter, you can easily upload all of your sleep information to the myZeo Personal Coaching website, and begin to spot trends in your sleep that you have never been able to see before. Sleep Journal Uncover the links between how you live--including exercise, diet, stress, and environment--and how you sleep. Available both online and on paper, your Zeo Sleep Journal allows you to record lifestyle, environmental, and consumption factors that can disrupt your sleep. You'll learn about the 7 Sleep Stealers and how much they can affect your sleep data each night. You can also define your own lifestyle factors to record. The more sleep stealers you track, the more insights you'll find about how your actions may be affecting your Sleep Fitness. Sleep Tools Using Zeo's online tools, you can begin to understand how your ZQ and morning feel scores change from night to night. You'll also spot any connections between your daily lifestyle choices and your nightly sleep and find out for yourself some of the cause and effect patterns in your sleep. A sleep graph shows how much time you spent in Deep sleep, in Light sleep, in REM sleep, and awake. The Cause & Effect Tool helps you explore how your lifestyle may be affecting your sleep quality. Sleep Fitness Assessments help you track your progress in each step. Personal Coach Step 4: Start Your 7 Step Sleep Fitness Program, Your Personal Guide to a Better Night's Sleep The 7 Step Sleep Fitness Program is a guided self-discovery process for your sleep. This personalized sleep coaching program asks you to set goals for your sleep and then provides you with customized strategies to help you to achieve these goals. In addition, you can learn more about the latest sleep research, and receive recommendations on how to track the items that are most beneficial for you. Through this program, you'll experience the power of seeing your own sleep data and learn about which factors may be affecting your sleep. You will have full control over the program to skip, repeat or start-over any step you wish. Special features of the program include: A series of personalized e-mails that incorporate effective sleep tips and advice, customized to your sleep data, lifestyle and goals. A customized action plan to deal with each of the 7 Sleep Stealers as they relate to you and your sleep. Goal-oriented assignments that are realistic and achievable, and will not require you to drastically rearrange your lifestyle or even your sleep style. Positive, supportive, and easy to understand suggestions and exercises, in everyday language that is easy to follow. The Zeo Sleep Information Center is an online library for sleep information and science. In addition to offering another kind of self-guided, personal coaching tool, you can use the Sleep Information Center to discover what sleep is, and why it's important. Zeo Reveals How You Really Sleep. Without Zeo, sleep is a mystery. Are you getting the restorative Deep and REM sleep you need to be your best? How long does it really take you to fall asleep? It's practically impossible to accurately gauge your sleep quality and pinpoint which factors affect it. Everyone's sleep is different, and there's no one-size-fits-all solution for getting a better night's rest. Zeo scores your sleep quantity and quality. Imagine knowing both the quality of your sleep and the reasons behind it. Every morning, Zeo will tell you your ZQ--a number that summarizes your sleep's quantity and quality--and lots of other information about your sleep. If you can measure it, you can improve it. For the first time, you can visualize your sleep. Using Zeo's included web-based tools, you can easily see exactly how--or whether--you slept through the night. Zeo Helps You Improve Your Sleep. See what's stealing your sleep. Zeo Personal Sleep Coach will help you understand and minimize the factors that negatively affect sleep, so you can take control of your nights. You can use the visual web-based tools to see trends and cause-and-effect patterns. Get personalized sleep coaching. Sign up for the 7 Step Sleep Fitness Program to receive recommendations and actions plans tailored to you and your sleep. Zeo will help you get the most from your sleep so you can be your best. What's in the Box Zeo Bedside Display, Zeo Headband, Context Wheel, Power Adapter, SD Memory Card, Card Reader, Getting Started Guide, Headband Basics Guide, Meet Zeo Reference Manual, Sleep Journal

Features

• Zeo tells you how you really sleep, and helps you find ways to improve your sleep
• Accurately measure your sleep quality and sleep quanity at home
• Discover factors that are stealing your Deep, REM & total sleep
• Analyze your sleep patterns using online tools and journals
• Add sleep coaching for a customized sleep improvement program tailored just for you

Reviews

I have spent a lot of money in the past both on my own EEG equipment and on professional PSG testing at hospitals, all in an attempt to understand my sleep architecture. This machine is so much cheaper than those alternatives and provides an incredible amount of data. Zeo is a product WAY ahead of its time. ******* GOOD THINGS: Can't say enough. How good is the data? Their ZQ measure absolutely correlates with my subjective mood. My scatter plots show a nice linear correlation. I have learned a LOT about my sleep (I tend to get a ridiculous amount of REM sleep but very little Deep sleep), I can also track changes in sleep that occur when I exercise or take a medication. It's very comfortable and easy to use. Put it on at night, take it off in the morning. Tech support has been quick and polite and when I had a part go bad they immediately sent a replacement. ******* BAD THINGS: 1) If you use it for short naps you have to quickly write down the information from the base-unit before the data disappears. It would be nice if naps were handled better. 2) (NOTE: THIS ISSUE HAS NOW BEEN SOLVED, SEE COMMENT FROM ZEO BELOW REVIEW) There is no way YET to get ALL of the data onto your pc without uploading to the company website to decrypt. If they go out of business customers will be out of luck. Zeo has written on their blog that they are going to open-source everything so that a geek such as myself will be able to access the data right off the card. So this problem is hopefully going to go away soon. 3) I kept getting communications dropouts and I had to rule out quite a few problems, then call tech support. They replaced my headset immediately and the new one was indeed more stable with no dropouts in data. What bothers me is that as a new user I had no way of knowing that the connection was less stable than it should be. So ******* NOTE TO NEW USERS: The JEB icon should display pretty quickly when you put on the headband, in say 15 seconds. It should persist even if you move around a little. Test the headband out during the day and be sure it's behaving correctly. Note that none of the bad things above are a big deal. Even one month of data of this quality would be worth it to me for $200. I think the people with very high expectations have never had to pay for real (and often useless) PSG's and EEG's and so they don't realize how easy and cheap the zeo is by comparison. ***** MY WAY OF USING THE ZEO: I log into their website, upload the data file, download the spreadsheet data to my pc and plug the numbers into my own graphs and charts. That's pretty much it. ****** AND SO So there you have it. There are a few pitfalls, but for people who are desperate to get valuable data on their real, 'at home', sleep architecture, Zeo is an incredibly valuable, one of a kind product.

I agree with a number of users about the dubious accuracy of the device, whether it can actually track my wake or sleep state. In addition, I have light colored marks now on my pillowcase. I have noticed three distinct brownish circles that match up with the contacts on the head device. These brownish marks are permanent and look like burn marks. Some of these dots are large enough to merge and look like a band of dark on the pillowcase. Since these marks were not present before using this device, and they don't wash out (so it is not a chemical reaction) I have to say that this device may be doing something with the cotton. I don't feel any heat but the cotton has been damaged. The marks are permanent and they are real. This device has indeed ruined my one case. It is weird and a bit scary. Time to send it back.

I've had my Zeo for over six months and last night I had experienced another example of it's frustrating inaccuracy. I recall several vivid dreams between 4:30am and 7:00am and yet my Zeo shows me as awake for almost that entire period. Of course my sleep score was very low as a result. Mistaking vivid dreams for being awake is an ongoing problem. I talked to Zeo support online about this issue and the support person admitted that Zeo's will indeed confuse vivid dreams with awake states. I wonder how may other times during the night did my Zeo mistook dreams for being awake? This situation makes it very hard for me to trust the results I'm getting from my Zeo. Too bad, because the device is very well designed and the head strap is comfortable to wear. If only it were reliably accurate.

I found the data I got from this very valuable when it managed to stay on my head.. which is about 30% of the time. I've tried everything... cutting my hair, below ears, above ears, alternative headbands, tighter fits, starting it lower, higher. Ultimately it is still plugged in and i wish i could use it on a regular basis, but as i know there is very low probability of it staying on through the night, it has been a waste of time and money. Also, some feedback for the next design: the transmitter does not fit well enough in the cradle, and needs a debouncing function and an off-the-cradle-for-a-fraction-of-a-second filter. too many times i've bumped the table or the receiver and it thinks a whole new evening has started and stopped between the time the thing was jostled out of contact and back into contact... of course it hadn't.["àõ

I have been using the Zeo everynight for a solid month at least. As far as I can determine it gives remarkably steady readings. So I have not experienced flaky readings as some others have commented. It is important to realize that it is doing something reasonably complicated and using calculations of data taken over 5 minute intervals to assign a value of awake, REM, light sleep and deep sleep. So it is not reasonable to expect it to give accuracy minute to minute. Also you may occasionally displace the headband sensor unit in your sleep which can cause bad readings. This has rarely been a problem for me. The product is high quality and very logically thought out. For the money I find it a bargain as I am for the first time able to get this sort of information with out going to a professional. I have found in my case I tend to wake up several times a night for short periods I never have noticed and that my REM and deep sleep could be improved. So by keeping records of how you prepare for sleep and how well you actually sleep one can run experiments to try and improve ones sleep pattern with this device. I also love the waking forest alarm that progressively rises in volume, and is applied at a point that is least disruptive when done using their smart mode. This appears to work very well in my case. Despite being very excited about this product I really wish they would make a couple of additional features available even if for a fee. Like others have said I would much prefer a software to analyze the data rather than go through the upload to the website. I will point out that they at least let you download the data from their website to an excel file for your own records and manipulation. Also if they do go out of business you will be able to observe your data one day at a time on the device itself. For me to be fully happy with this product I would also like a feature where you can set a subtle peaceful alert to be issued when you enter into REM sleep (aka a lucid dreaming aid). I feel that without having such a feature that can really put this product in a mode in which you can interact with it in such a way you will probably stop using the Zeo once you have gotten the information it currently gives. I feel its useful life will be limited as it currently stands. Their customer support is extremely responsive and I have forwarded my request to them. Another point I read for those concerned about wearing a device transmitting a signal my understanding is that the signal is very weak as in 1/1000 that of a cell phone.