yay accelerometers

[gfish]

As anyone who has slept with me will confirm, I tend to toss and turn all night. Thanks to a fun Android app, even the distressing number of you who have little desire to share a bed with me can see just how bad it is:



I only used it for the first time last night, but I'm curious to see what patterns emerge over time. I'm looking forward to playing with the optimally timed alarm feature -- I've wanted to try that for years, but custom hardware is expensive. Yet another reason that having a general-purpose computing platform with an accelerometer is awesome!

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[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

Man the sleep debt tracking option looks super depressing.

I've seen complaints about a best-selling iphone equivalent that if you leave it motionless on a table, it will also generate an obviously bogus sleep cycle graph and awaken you at a random time that it claims is in light sleep. Something to test with this app before you get too involved in data collection!

I was delighted to find out the other day that Cedar Point (big amusement park) gets enough high school physics day type groups that they have a really strict accelerometer policy. Hee hee hee. They require wrist straps, only one style is allowed, and they're banned on certain rides. I'm picturing dodgy science rebels sneaking accelerometers on the banned rides. Or maybe making a big show of leaving their accelerometer in the bag check bin, and pulling out a huge old-school barometer in a mahogany case and saying "This is cool, though, right?"

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I left it on the bedside table last night, and the graph is completely flat except for a handful of spikes which could easily have been me bumping the rather wobbly table. I'll leave it on the windowsill to confirm this, but it looks pretty good.