The Top Five Gadgets To Help You Sleep [A List of Five Gadgets Designed To Help You Get a Good Night's Sleep]

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Inception has just hit theaters today, folks, and seeing as how it revolves all around the nature of sleep and dreaming, and of course, stealing information out of that dream, it seemed like a great time to hit you up with a list. Today we’re going to give you the top five gadgets to help you get a good night’s sleep, so that you too can have your dreams pilfered by Leonardo DiCaprio. Brace yourselves, folks–we’re going way beyond warm milk and counting sheep.

5.The Roku Soundbridge Radio

Yes, it looks like your basic clock radio, but it offers a wide variety of other options that should help you fall asleep. Not only will it connect to your PC by WiFi and stream music from it, it’ll also play Internet radio stations, of which there are a huge amount. Now that by itself is pretty good, but when you tack on that the Roku Soundbridge has the capability to slowly fade out while it plays, then you’ve got a device that’ll really help you fall asleep. You’ll go from listening to music, to steadily quieter music, to eventually, none at all. And by the time you get there, you should be well on your way to falling asleep. The Roku Soundbridge sells for $250.

4.The Sleepwave

If you miss the old days of being rocked to sleep, well, we’ve got just the gadget for you. No, it’s not a hammock–it’s the Sleepwave from Philips. Now you too can re-live the old days of being rocked to sleep at night even if you’re now significantly larger than your dear old mother. The Sleepwave has two earpieces that hook over your ears and, in turn, stimulates the vestibular nerve and thus makes you think you’re swaying back and forth. It retails for $440 in Australia, so chances are if you’re elsewhere you can get it too.

3.The Lightsleeper

Designed by an insomniac college student, the Lightsleeper projects a moving light image up on your ceiling in a controlled circle, and does that for about 30 minutes at a clip. You watch the spinning light and this, apparently, helps you fall asleep by relaxing your mind. And if the first half hour isn’t enough to relax you, just tap the device for another half-hour’s worth of spinning light. Sounds more like a way to get you dizzy to me, but the folks behind it assure me it works. It currently retails for 150 pounds sterling at lightsleeper.com.

2.The Kuchofuku Air Conditioned Bed

If there’s one thing I know full well, it’s that it’s a whole lot easier to fall asleep in a cool room than it is in a hot room. And if the bed’s cool, that also helps a whole lot. Enter the Kuchofuku air conditioned bed, a bed that uses two fans to draw in cool air and circulate it through the bed while you sleep. I can personally see this one working as long as the fans aren’t really loud. Between the cool temperatures and the droning fan blades, this one should do the job nicely. And for $399, it’s not a bad price.

1. The Suimin Sleep Room

Oh here we go. It’s one thing to say that your bedroom is designed entirely for sleep, but it’s another thing to actually have a room designed by scientists for sleep. The Suimin Sleep Room uses built-in controls to induce quality sleep, using a reclining bed with massage functions, soundproofing, specifically-tuned lighting and music to make an environment tailor-made for sleep. In fact, it’s so well crafted that no one has ever spent more than a half hour in a Suimin Sleep Room before falling sound asleep. It’ll cost you a whopping $50000 Australian to have one of these put in, but considering what it can do, that’s almost worth it.

And so, there are five devices that suggest they’ll help you get a good night’s sleep. I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, so I can’t say they will or not, but I’d definitely like to try some of these myself.

Inception hits theaters today.

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