Trouble sleeping? This moon-shaped bedside light might help.

Monday, June 8, 2020 - 09:22 in Psychology & Sociology

The light is strong enough for reading, but changes brightness and color depending on what you're doing. (Hatch /)Quality of sleep has endured some collateral damage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even when people stick to their normal schedules, roughly a third of us suffer from bouts of acute, short-term insomnia. And since social distancing has thrown off our routines—and is causing even normal sleepers to experience unpleasant or chaotic dreams—the problem has only gotten worse. These troubles make devices like Hatch’s Restore sleep device that much more appealing.The Restore debuted back at CES 2020. The company had already enjoyed considerable success with its Rest and Rest+ devices meant for helping babies and children get to sleep and stay there. Like the Rest line, the Restore mixes a diffuse, color-changing light with a speaker that can produce nebulous noise designed to help drown out real-world sounds that might otherwise disturb your...

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