05 May
Gadget Tracks a Good Nights’ Shuteye
Ironically, Lee Loree loses sleep over his invention, the Sleeptracker.
Loree, 35, gave up a career as a stockbroker in Atlanta about eight years ago to work on the device — a wristwatch and software system designed to record a person’s sleep pattern.
The idea came from someone else’s dream. Loree remembers staying up late one night with a penlight reading an analyst’s report for his job when his wife started a lucid, friendly chat. When Loree later woke her just a few minutes later, her tone had changed.
“The other time I woke her up, she was miserable,” Loree said. “It just flashed in my brain that if I can figure out a way to get people up when they naturally want to get up, getting up in the morning can be much easier.”