1 00:00:00,370 --> 00:00:04,430 - Unless we're talking about headphones, electronics are your head typically look pretty stupid. 2 00:00:04,430 --> 00:00:10,400 But today, we're here to normalize sleep monitoring devices that you wear on your head. 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,583 It's a headband. It's called the Dreem 2. 4 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,860 Okay, there's probably two different kinds of people who are clicking on this video. 5 00:00:16,860 --> 00:00:20,820 One type of person just wants to see me open up this weird thing and talk about 6 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:24,700 what I know about it. The other type of person wants to know a lot about the Dreem 2 device. 7 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:28,210 Maybe this person's a body hacker. Maybe this person has a sleep condition, 8 00:00:28,210 --> 00:00:31,580 like when you flail your limbs around and wake yourself up, 9 00:00:31,580 --> 00:00:35,180 or you have apnea or insomnia. That person might be a little disappointed 10 00:00:35,180 --> 00:00:38,520 because I only used this for 10 nights, 11 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,490 and I don't have any of those conditions. So this is not gonna be a deep dive 12 00:00:42,490 --> 00:00:47,690 about body hacking or biometrics, and I haven't used the Oura Ring or anything like that. 13 00:00:47,690 --> 00:00:50,850 But I can tell you what this thing feels like to sleep in 14 00:00:50,850 --> 00:00:57,210 and where and how the app is, and some stuff, so stick around because, you know, I'm a nice guy. 15 00:00:57,210 --> 00:01:02,080 Here you go. Dreem 2. There's two boxes here. 16 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,460 One is the headband itself, and one is a charging dock. 17 00:01:05,460 --> 00:01:09,450 Now, I don't know what happened here at the office, but I went home with only one box. 18 00:01:09,450 --> 00:01:13,080 I didn't have the charger, but fortunately, as we're going to find out, 19 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:19,600 there is a USB charging cable in here. So let's talk more about those after we see the main unit. 20 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:25,540 This is the headband. Pretty cool. It's really fabric-ey. 21 00:01:25,540 --> 00:01:30,147 It's light. I believe this is only 130 grams. A lotta people are gonna have a concern about this thing. 22 00:01:30,147 --> 00:01:33,940 "What's it like to sleep in? What sleep positions can I comfortably be in? 23 00:01:33,940 --> 00:01:37,210 Is this thing gonna fly off my head? Is it gonna fit my head?" 24 00:01:37,210 --> 00:01:41,670 I can help you with these questions, 'cause I have a head and my head's been in here. 25 00:01:41,670 --> 00:01:45,050 I found wearing this at night was really no problem. 26 00:01:45,050 --> 00:01:50,020 I found that I could sleep in any position without really any effect. 27 00:01:50,020 --> 00:01:54,600 You know what? Nah, I'm not gonna put it on yet. Let's (laughs) do a tour of it first. 28 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:59,600 It has electrodes that measure EEG, your brain waves. 29 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:03,220 They're here on the forehead, so you have to make sure it's flush to your forehead. 30 00:02:03,220 --> 00:02:07,130 I recommend washing your face before bed so this doesn't turn into some kinda gross, 31 00:02:07,130 --> 00:02:11,800 stinky, pimple-inducing helmet. And then there's these polymer electrodes. 32 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,610 They're plastic and flexible. They're on the back. More on those in a bit. 33 00:02:15,610 --> 00:02:18,910 There's also this little adjustment area right here. 34 00:02:18,910 --> 00:02:22,040 I guess these are velcro, so you can put them 35 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:26,640 at various points on this band. I didn't have to adjust that much at all, 36 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:31,630 because on top of being able to move those little velcro bits around you can also stretch it. 37 00:02:31,630 --> 00:02:37,530 And inside the box... Oh god. There's adapters for the charger. 38 00:02:37,530 --> 00:02:41,460 This is the wall wart. The American one goes in here. 39 00:02:41,460 --> 00:02:46,460 Inside there box there was also extra adjustment things. 40 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:52,070 So I believe you can go from 520-millimeter head circumference to 610, 41 00:02:52,070 --> 00:02:57,080 whatever that means. I just left this one on here, but you can see that you can extend 42 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,220 how wide the adjustment band is using these extra... 43 00:03:01,290 --> 00:03:07,630 This is the one for girthy melons. This is the one for little, tiny alien heads. 44 00:03:07,630 --> 00:03:11,590 Nice to have, but I don't know how many people are gonna need those. 45 00:03:11,590 --> 00:03:13,713 Is this? Oh, this comes off. 46 00:03:15,510 --> 00:03:20,020 Oh, that's pretty cool. I guess you could wash this. You know, so it doesn't get too gummied up. 47 00:03:20,020 --> 00:03:26,140 Oh, you can do that with this as well. Okay, that's cool. So that's hygienic, I like that. 48 00:03:26,140 --> 00:03:30,920 And then, in this little box, is just the USB Micro B charger. 49 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:34,680 Oh my god. I'm all thumbs today! I had a problem with charging. 50 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:39,910 This thing doesn't really have enough charges for two nights, which actually is kind of okay. 51 00:03:39,910 --> 00:03:44,710 It has enough charges for one night, and if you had this device for a long time, 52 00:03:44,710 --> 00:03:49,280 you would assume that battery capacity is gonna shrink over time, so it's kinda like 53 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:54,280 they just gave you way more than you need at the beginning, so that if you have it for years you'll still 54 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,610 have a night's worth of battery over a long time, 55 00:03:57,610 --> 00:04:01,440 because you're gonna be charging this to 100%. You're probably gonna plug it in in the morning 56 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,510 and leave it charging all day, so the battery's often gonna be at 100%, 57 00:04:05,510 --> 00:04:08,740 which isn't very good for lithium-ion batteries. Now, the issue that I have, though, 58 00:04:08,740 --> 00:04:12,010 is that if you get to bed and you haven't charged it 59 00:04:12,010 --> 00:04:15,550 and you only have about 40% left, or at 35%, 60 00:04:15,550 --> 00:04:19,930 and you're like, "Well, I'll plug it in while I go brush my teeth and wash my face," that's probably not gonna make a dent. 61 00:04:19,930 --> 00:04:27,020 It's probably not gonna get you enough battery for you to make it through the night. But maybe it could if it wasn't USB Micro B. 62 00:04:27,020 --> 00:04:33,200 If it was USB-C, you know, like my phone... My Pixel 4 charges like 50% in 15 minutes. 63 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:38,330 Now, this is where I have to have a little disclaimer, though, 'cause I was not using this charging thing, 64 00:04:38,330 --> 00:04:42,650 which I haven't even opened yet. But I've seen it in the marketing, and it looks pretty stylish. 65 00:04:44,590 --> 00:04:49,850 Okay, this thing has its own little plugin to the wall. It's a heavy, basically, like, paperweight. 66 00:04:49,850 --> 00:04:54,850 And it doesn't have a USB port on it. 67 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,950 Oh! I was wondering what these little silver nubs were. 68 00:04:58,950 --> 00:05:02,140 I guess that's pretty cool. And you can see, the headband is so light 69 00:05:02,140 --> 00:05:07,200 that it can be on there in this avant garde kind of physics-defying posture. 70 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,630 Maybe that charges faster than USB-C. I don't know. And also, you can just put this on your nightstand 71 00:05:11,630 --> 00:05:15,790 so it's easy to remember, you take it off, that's just where it goes, and that would be helpful to remember charging it. 72 00:05:15,790 --> 00:05:19,050 Okay, back to what it looks like. The design's weird, right? 73 00:05:19,050 --> 00:05:23,700 Because most of this is just headband. There are sensors in here, yes, and sensors here, 74 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:27,950 but all the battery and the onboard computer are all in this heavy part, 75 00:05:27,950 --> 00:05:31,920 and that heavy part goes on the top of your head. And since that's the thickest and heaviest part, 76 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:36,750 it's great for it to be resting right here where you're never gonna be laying on it, 77 00:05:36,750 --> 00:05:40,400 unless you sleep like one of those babies who flattens their head against the ground 78 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:45,180 and puts their butt in the air. But I grew outta that, and I usually just sleep on my back or side, 79 00:05:45,180 --> 00:05:50,610 and in those postures... You know what? Let's put it on. In those postures, that's unaffected. 80 00:05:50,610 --> 00:05:53,650 You know? Oh, I'm just gonna... I'll just be here. 81 00:05:53,650 --> 00:05:59,310 Or here. Or here. And this is flat enough that it doesn't really matter. 82 00:05:59,310 --> 00:06:04,078 Another nice thing that I did try was using on-ear or over-ear headphones with this. 83 00:06:04,078 --> 00:06:07,530 Your headphone headband can easily go over and, 84 00:06:07,530 --> 00:06:13,960 pretty much, these are so low-profile that having earphones go on there totally works. 85 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,720 This thing does not have any EMF while you're using it. 86 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,130 I mean, I'm not the kinda person that thinks I'm getting coronavirus from 5G, 87 00:06:21,130 --> 00:06:25,700 but if you are, you'll be happy to know that the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals 88 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:32,040 are completely disabled while this thing is in use. Each night, pair it to your phone via Bluetooth, 89 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,470 and then you set up that, "I'm going to sleep right now," 90 00:06:35,470 --> 00:06:40,220 you put it on, it severs those connections, and then the rest of the data collection 91 00:06:40,220 --> 00:06:46,390 and analysis of the data, that happens in real time, happens locally onboard with this little computer. 92 00:06:46,390 --> 00:06:49,900 Pretty cool. But the downside of that is that every time 93 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:53,490 you want to start a night or finish the night 94 00:06:53,490 --> 00:06:58,780 you have to kind of re-pair it to your phone, and it's not as seamless as your Bluetooth headphones 95 00:06:58,780 --> 00:07:02,160 where as soon as they come out of the case your phone's like, ba-dink, "I recognize you," 96 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:07,020 and just connects. Instead, you have to open the app, go to a new thing. 97 00:07:07,020 --> 00:07:10,550 Let's say it's a nap, which I've never done. I only used it for sleep. 98 00:07:10,550 --> 00:07:15,800 And then, you see this little exclamation mark? You gotta go, I'm gonna pair it. 99 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:22,457 Says, "Press the button on the headphone to pair." Okay, it's flashing. The app still hasn't responded. 100 00:07:22,457 --> 00:07:27,520 "Your headband is currently being paired. Your headband is initializing. Successfully paired." 101 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,620 So it takes like 45 seconds every time, 102 00:07:30,620 --> 00:07:34,710 which is kind of annoying. Then you get up in the morning and you wanna see the results, 103 00:07:34,710 --> 00:07:38,290 'cause that's like the most fun part of this thing, and you have to kinda do that again. 104 00:07:38,290 --> 00:07:43,720 A cool thing about Dreem is that when you wake up it gives you these cool cards 105 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:48,630 about how your sleep was the night before. And you get this right away. 106 00:07:48,630 --> 00:07:52,240 There's a lotta features of the app that you only get after your first week, 107 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,690 so they can kinda collate how you sleep week-to-week 108 00:07:55,690 --> 00:08:01,080 and your tendencies overall on average, but right away, you do get this cool feature, 109 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,090 you get a card for each night. So let's look at Monday, June 22nd, 110 00:08:04,090 --> 00:08:08,270 the last time I used this puppy. Apparently I slept for seven hours. 111 00:08:08,270 --> 00:08:12,310 I got an efficiency of 94%. I don't really know what that means. 112 00:08:12,310 --> 00:08:17,240 It took me 16 minutes to fall asleep. I woke up only once, for two minutes. 113 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,150 And the adherence to my sleep schedule was a three out of five. 114 00:08:21,150 --> 00:08:26,040 You know, it's hard. I try to go to bed at 10. Right now it's summertime. The sun is still out. 115 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:31,590 And hey, you know what? While I'm spilling my guts, my wife wants to watch "Dark" on Netflix every night. 116 00:08:31,590 --> 00:08:35,940 It's an hour-long show. It's really easy for me to stay up past my bedtime. 117 00:08:35,940 --> 00:08:39,220 I'm sorry, Dreem. Okay, but here's the cooler stuff. 118 00:08:39,220 --> 00:08:43,020 There's sensors on here for measuring your heart rate. 119 00:08:43,020 --> 00:08:46,640 And also your blood saturation level, although I don't think they've implemented that 120 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:51,130 on the software level yet. They have the sensors for it, but that's still a feature that's coming. 121 00:08:51,130 --> 00:08:54,520 And that will let you know whether you woke up due to respiratory issues. 122 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,570 My average breathing was 17 CPM. What is C... 123 00:08:58,570 --> 00:09:02,170 C's. C's per minute? I don't know what that is. 124 00:09:02,170 --> 00:09:07,540 49 movements. Seven-hour duration. I did some deep sleeping. Some light sleep. 125 00:09:07,540 --> 00:09:12,240 Some REM, that's the light blue. And then you can just check it out, how you went all night. 126 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,940 You can see all these little wake-up moments, and that's 'cause I have a baby sleeping in my room, 127 00:09:16,940 --> 00:09:20,040 and she's a butthole sometimes and wants to eat 128 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,860 in the middle of the night like a god damn bodybuilder. And you can see, as I scroll along, 129 00:09:23,860 --> 00:09:29,160 the little dude here is changing position. I often fall asleep on my left side. 130 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,560 That's something the app told me. I didn't even know that. That's good to know. 131 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:37,770 Now, if this was all you got from the app, being able to check out how your sleep last night went, 132 00:09:37,770 --> 00:09:42,320 this would totally not be worth the 500 U.S. dollars that it costs. 133 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:46,900 500 U.S. dollars. This is the equivalent of something like 23andMe, 134 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:50,270 where you get it and it's cool for like a day, 135 00:09:50,270 --> 00:09:54,880 and then who cares? You never really open it up again. 23andMe is not $500. 136 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,840 It's like $150 or something like that. But that's not all this thing can do. 137 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,930 It also has an integrated alarm clock, 138 00:10:01,930 --> 00:10:06,630 which I actually thought was pretty cool. So what you can do is say, "I wanna wake up at 6:00 a.m., 139 00:10:06,630 --> 00:10:10,060 because I'm a masochist." You can actually set a window of five to 50 minutes 140 00:10:10,060 --> 00:10:14,750 where the headband is gonna sense, based on your brainwaves, when you're most readily wake-up-able, 141 00:10:14,750 --> 00:10:18,080 so that you can wake up not feeling groggy, but kinda ready to go, you know? 142 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,700 And you're just kinda, "Aw, yeah!" Sit up in bed like a mummy, "Ha!" 143 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:25,360 Ready to go. You can do that. The issue that I have with that, though, 144 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,240 is that this uses bone conduction audio, 145 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,690 little vibrations in the headband you can hear sound through, 146 00:10:32,690 --> 00:10:37,107 instead of having like an earpiece. And so when it speaks to you, saying like, 147 00:10:37,107 --> 00:10:41,830 "Night started," or like, "Battery charged," that's all through bone conduction, 148 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,280 and so is the alarm clock. And the alarm clock noise that I chose 149 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,410 was some kind of shaker sound, like shick-shick-shick-shick, 150 00:10:49,410 --> 00:10:52,540 but it's pretty quiet and I felt like 151 00:10:52,540 --> 00:10:56,777 I slept through it a lot. And one time, even, my wife was like, 152 00:10:56,777 --> 00:11:00,030 "Uh, hey. Your thing's going off." 153 00:11:00,030 --> 00:11:03,750 So I guess she could hear it but I couldn't. The main claim to fame for this thing 154 00:11:03,750 --> 00:11:08,970 for making your sleep better is that it'll sense when you're in kind of a light sleep 155 00:11:08,970 --> 00:11:12,900 and then play pink noise to make you go into a deeper sleep, 156 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:16,320 so it can actually improve your sleep. I didn't really see that. 157 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:21,410 I was pretty consistent throughout. And then there was one night that I had that turned on, 158 00:11:21,410 --> 00:11:24,500 where it seemed to just do the pink noise like all night. 159 00:11:24,500 --> 00:11:27,860 But again, it's quiet enough that it wasn't too disruptive. 160 00:11:27,860 --> 00:11:32,350 Another feature that they have is onset experiences to help you fall asleep. 161 00:11:32,350 --> 00:11:36,390 There's like a meditation thing, or breathing or calming noises, 162 00:11:36,390 --> 00:11:40,130 and I think you can even do them all in succession. I didn't use any of those because 163 00:11:40,130 --> 00:11:46,090 I fall asleep pretty easily, but I have read about people who really struggle to fall asleep, and over time, 164 00:11:46,090 --> 00:11:50,510 got the amount of time it takes them to fall asleep from two hours down to like 20 minutes 165 00:11:50,510 --> 00:11:53,560 consistently over a six-month period, and that is life-changing. 166 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:58,090 Another concern I have with this thing is that I got a flag in the app 167 00:11:58,090 --> 00:12:02,690 that said that it wasn't collecting data as efficiently as possible, 168 00:12:02,690 --> 00:12:07,460 and I think that has to do with these little polymer electrodes not connecting with my scalp 169 00:12:07,460 --> 00:12:11,810 as clearly as they could. But the thing is, I have pretty short hair back there. 170 00:12:11,810 --> 00:12:16,470 At the time that I was wearing this I had just gotten a haircut. Not many users are gonna have shorter hair 171 00:12:16,470 --> 00:12:21,550 than what I have on the back, and so if that's not cutting it, I don't know what you're gonna do if you have long hair. 172 00:12:21,550 --> 00:12:26,080 And so that's kinda concerning. And it also provides no detail to you 173 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:31,230 as to what kind of effect that diminished reading is having on your data. 174 00:12:31,230 --> 00:12:35,420 Is it just not getting the resolution it wants, or sometimes when it tries to make a reading 175 00:12:35,420 --> 00:12:39,780 it doesn't get it? I don't know. It doesn't tell you that. Maybe if I was more hardcore I woulda shaved 176 00:12:39,780 --> 00:12:43,680 a little patch for this just to slot right into, but no one's doing that. 177 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:49,220 So should you buy this for 500 U.S. dollars? Well, maybe. But do your research. 178 00:12:49,220 --> 00:12:52,630 There are a couple of competitors, but as I understand it, this is pretty good. 179 00:12:52,630 --> 00:12:56,970 And compared to a sleep study, this is way cheaper than that. 180 00:12:56,970 --> 00:13:00,730 But if it's just like a novelty thing, like you just wanna check it out, 181 00:13:00,730 --> 00:13:06,600 maybe try to find a used one or borrow somebody else's, 'cause that novelty's gonna wear off in about a week. 182 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:11,290 Like, my wife was really interested and she wanted to try it, but again, 183 00:13:11,290 --> 00:13:15,580 unless you have an issue it's probably not worth it. Unless you're one of those body-hacky people 184 00:13:15,580 --> 00:13:19,330 who just wants to measure everything, you ketogenic weirdos, 185 00:13:19,330 --> 00:13:22,560 peeing on little strips and everything. Maybe it's fun for that. 186 00:13:22,560 --> 00:13:26,390 It's a great Christmas gift, you know? But 500 bucks is pretty damn steep. 187 00:13:26,390 --> 00:13:29,460 I'm not saying it's not worth it, but you gotta be the right person. 188 00:13:29,460 --> 00:13:34,060 Anyway, thanks for watching ShortCircuit today. Maybe I'll wear this the rest of the summer. 189 00:13:34,060 --> 00:13:37,800 Maybe I'll start wearing it when I go outside. It's pretty sci-fi, people might think 190 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,760 I'm a time traveler, you know? If you liked this video, get subscribed. 191 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:46,640 And just watch all of them. Just watch 'em all. Just never leave us.