Polish inventors create a brain wave measuring eye mask

If you're able to frequently sleep the whole night through, knowing what sleeping pattern your brain naturally follows is a difficult thing to understand – this is at least one area where those that awaken through the night have an advantage. Polish inventors at California-based company IntelliClinic have crowd-sourced enough money to create a sleep mask that can sense your sleeping patterns and send them to your smartphone to review the next day. The foam mask houses a Bluetooth transmitter and many other sensors which monitor brain waves along with eye and facial movement. According to Mobi Health News, the eyewear is designed so people can better manage their polyphasic sleep schedule – the sleep pattern which encourages small, concise amounts of sleep throughout the day. Along with sensors, the eye mask also has an alarm system, which wakes users with flashing lights at the time they need to wake up – something very conducive to the more unusual sleep pattern that the polyphasic pattern suggests. Changing your sleeping pattern is never easy. We're raised on the concept that night is the time when we sleep, bar perhaps a little nap or siesta midday depending on where in the world we live. An eye mask such as the NeuroOn as suggested here could help us make the transition from an eight-hour sleep to a polyphasic sleep pattern, but we're yet to be convinced if that style of sleeping is for us. Few things can beat a long sleep in your own, cosy bed. Polish inventors create a brain wave measuring eye mask