Tag Archives: fitness

Android Open Accessory API Without ANT+ 0

What’s up with this? This makes me crazy Google releases the Android Open Accessory API but fails to ship ANT+ support? ONLY USB and no Bluetooth for now. This is amazingly LAME. Sony can ship ANT+ for Android but Google can’t? The demo they gave on the screen, with an Android game monitoring the pace [...]

On polysomnographs, apnea, oximeters, ANT+, and data recorders. 1

I did a bunch of research tonight on using oximiters and heart rate monitors for helping to diagnose sleep apnea. I think I might have a mild sleep apnea. I was diagnosed before but the sleep lab was so pathetic that I just completely wrote off the results and never really went back. It turns [...]

Why is the NY Times linking to pathetic sleep studies? 0

I really hate it when mainstream media covers lame science. This study recently done at the University of Pennsylvania is interesting but not really helpful. For starters. It was VERY small…. dozens of subjects: In what was the longest sleep-restriction study of its kind, Dinges and his lead author, Hans Van Dongen, assigned dozens of [...]

Reflecting on my recent sleep experiments 3

I have some initial conclusions from my ~2 weeks of sleep experiments. – A pitch black room does increase my perceived sleep quality. I remember my dreams more and seem to have more dreams in general. – The blue blocker sunglasses don’t seem to yield any meaningful result for me. This might be because of [...]

ANT API for Android released 0

Wow. This is really slick. The new Sony Ericsson Xperia phones have Ant+ integrated directly into the phone hardware. This is huge as it means that more support for ANT+ will hopefully be forthcoming and other vendors   I am pleased to announce that the much anticipated ANT API for Android has now been released. The [...]

Triangulating on the ideal sleeping patterns. 0

Here’s the data I have so far on tracking down my ideal sleep patterns. – Too much caffeine is bad. Causes me to feel horrible in the morning, over sleep, etc. – Too little caffeine is bad too. Causes me to wake up in the middle of the night with the inability to get back [...]

Zeo sleep experiments with pitch black rooms and blue light reduction 1

One of my big goals has been to try to get my sleep down to 5 hours of sleep per night. A few years ago I was able to hit a zen mode for about 1 month where I was only sleeping 5 hours per night. I’ve since been trying to duplicate that. The theory [...]