What if your pajamas could tell you how well you slept? That's the dream of startup Nyx Devices, which has developed a nightshirt embedded with fabric electronics to monitor the wearer's breathing patterns. A small chip worn in a pocket of the shirt processes that data to determine the phase of sleep, such as REM sleep (when we dream), light sleep, or deep sleep.
"It has no adhesive and doesn't need any special setup to wear," says Matt Bianchi, a sleep neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and co-inventor of the shirt with Carson Darling, Pablo Bello, and Thomas Lipoma. "It's very easy—you just slip it on at night," says Bianchi, who has no formal role with Nyx Devices.
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Author: Emily Singer
