SleepIQ Kids Bed
© 2015 Sleep Number
What has Wi-Fi, costs $1000 and comes with it's own free app? With the exception of the $1000 part, you'd hardly guess a mattress. At CES 2015, Minnessota USA based Sleep Number released the SleepIQ Kids bed, an app-controlled mattress that can "adjust with children as they grow." The bed uses air pressure sensors to capture presence in bed by way of movement, breathing and heart rates. It uses a "full-body algorithm" to assess the quality of sleep and assign a 1-100 SleepIQ score for each night’s sleep. The information is sent to a smartphone (not included) that has the associated app installed. You must sync the mattress with your phone over your home Wi-Fi network, or you can use the low frequency bluetooth, making it possible to check your child's sleep patterns from a remote location. This could be bad news for baby sitters. For families with multiple children, the scores can be compared. Features include the ability to adjust the firmness of the mattress, the angle (for reading), underbed lighting that turns on automatically when you get out of the bed, automatic alerts if a child jumps out of bed or is restless and a built in reward system, to give good sleepers points. The app has a "monster detector" that uses your smart phone's camera to show if there are any monsters under the bed. Sleep Number says that the bed will help parents better understand routines that affect sleep, such as exercise, caffeine and screen time to help themdevelop healthy sleep routines. SleepIQ technology was developed by Sleep Number and its partner BAM Labs.
$1000, Smart Toy, iPhone, Android
Teaches: health; an app controlled mattress with sensors for heart rate to monitor sleep patterns