I’ve never not been able to sleep. In the past few years, I’ve happily slept through earthquakes, alarms, crying babies and my own snoring. But if I did have some trouble getting to the land of Nod, my first stop would be to check out the Philips Sleepwave, a tidy little gadget that is “designed to non-invasively stimulate the vestibular nerve by mimicking a swaying sensation”.
The Sleepwave, which is roughly the size of an MP3 player with little headphone type attachments that sit behind your ears. It’ll set you back $440, and at this stage is only available through Philips Respironics SleepEasy centres in Sydney and Melbourne (although Adelaide and Brisbane centres will start selling them from July 26).
That may sound kind of expensive, but compare it with the ongoing costs of prescription medication and the non-invasive nature of the gadget, and I know which one I’d be choosing. If I needed help sleepi… zzzzz.
2Hit6
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 11:19 AMlike.. for that price, can they guarentee it works.. or is there a good refund policy on this?
Devz
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 12:37 PMI second that 2Hit6, theres probably a select group that this device would work with, and $440 is a a bit steep for something thats useless.
If it fixed the problem, $1000 wouldnt be too much, in comparison.
Craig
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 2:53 PMTry a hammock first. If that swaying sensation doesnt cure your sleeplessness then there is every chance that something that duplicates the swaying sensation won’t either. But for the people that suffer from insomnia that this works for i’m sure $440, may be a lot of money in anyones language, is still money well spend.
r.spittle
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 5:46 PMi would like to purchase a sleepwave machine
r.spittle
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 5:48 PMwhere can i purchase asleepwave machine????