Snooze Control: How Sleeping Technology Is Taking Over the Bedroom

In the daytime, Woman As wearable activity tracker makes her life easier, with encouraging messages about how many steps she has walked. Shes lost a stone in two months but its not improving her relationship. Her partner hates the device, which she wears on her wrist, and has instigated a bedroom ban.

While its supposed to monitor quality of sleep, it is keeping them both up at night. When she rolls over, the tracker bashes him, and it emits a jarring light that wakesher up. This couple are ideal candidates for a smarter bed, with in-built wearable trackers and a new-gen alarm clock for the morning.

The clocks go forward next Sunday, meaning changes to sleep patterns because of lighter evenings and darker mornings, so now is the time to streamline your sleep. ReST Bed has a clever surface that works while you snooze, reading your pressure points and adjusting accordingly. It has memory foam that changes to provide more ventilation and different levels of lumbar support, while also maintaining awi-fi connection to track your sleep quality in a similar way to a wearable device.

Eight, named after that hallowed amount of sleep hours, is similar. It analyses 15 aspects of rest patterns and bedroom environment to improve sleep. You can sync it to the coffee machine so it starts brewing automatically when you wake up.

Once you do sleep, max out on the experience by recording any unconscious talking. The Sleep Talk Recorder app has been downloaded more than five million times and there are Twitter feeds such as Sleep Talkin Man, where people share night-time gems like the bagels have declared independence. Waking up is hard to do.

If you are trying to give up snoozing, try Ruggie. As the name suggests, it is a rug, and it makes rousing noises that only stop when both your feet are standing on it. Its soft, to ease the blow.

You can upload whatever sound or inspiring speech you like if you want to start the day on a particular note. It has just finished a successful round on Kickstarter and will be available in September, for 95. The founders quote successful people from Bill Gates to Barack Obama on the virtues of rising early and makes use of the old classic you snooze, you lose.

If you dont get out of bed for just anything, try Bonjour, a considerate French alarm clock, available soon, that monitors conditions and decides when to wake you. For example, if youve planned a run in the sunshine but its raining, Bonjour knows and will let you rest. If theres more traffic and it will take you longer to make your morning meeting, Bonjour alerts you.

You can sync it to Nest, so the thermostat can be turned up or down while you sleep. Next up, maybe someone will invent a cure for noisy neighbours or snoring. @susannahbutter