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The Best Dollar You Will Ever Spend – Sleep Cycle App Review

Feb 5, 2010 Health and Fitness, Lifestyle, Technology

I was going to wait until I had a couple of uses out of it but I can not get over how effective this iPhone application is. The Sleep Cycle alarm clock is an application for the iPhone that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you up at the optimal time based on your sleep motion. The concept is simple. When you are in a deep sleep, you move less and when you are nearly awake or in a dreaming state you tend to move in your sleep. The iPhone accelerometer measures your movement and tracks it in the application to wake you at the perfect time.

I admit that I had my doubts but then noticed that it is the number one selling application in several countries. I was reluctant to use it last night because I had to be up this morning to take my car into the shop. I set my normal alarm as a back up and decided to give the appplication a shot.

The way that it works is that it will wake you in a 30 minute range based on when you would like to wake up but, no later than the time you enter. You place the phone at the head of your bed and go to sleep. When I woke up this morning I was absolutely astonished at how refreshed I felt. For someone that has been getting very little sleep lately, this was the best 99 cents I have ever spent! I thought about putting off this rave review until I had two or three nights of awesome sleep but, the amount of energy that I have right now could not be ignored.

Seriously, I have responded to all of my emails, taken the car in, have had breakfast and coffee and am the first one in the office. For you iPhone users, there are other similar applications out there, some higher priced, but this is the one that I have and it works great so far.

Tags: iPhone App, product review, productivity