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”.
According to sleep experts, the iPad’s bright LCD display could be hampering your body’s ability to create melatonin. Translation: Insomnia. The Kindle and other e-ink devices, on the other hand, are akin to expensive sleeping pills.
Extensive studies conducted by universities in the US and Sweden show that a certain dose of radio frequency before bedtime causes insomnia. While there is plenty of number crunching yet to come to determine the exact relationships between exposure to 884MHz RF and loss of sleep, the key message from one of the scientists was this: “If you feel you have trouble sleeping, you should think about not talking on a mobile phone right before you go to bed.”
