WEBVTT 00:00:00.370 --> 00:00:04.430 - Unless we're talking about headphones, electronics are your head typically look pretty stupid. 00:00:04.430 --> 00:00:10.400 But today, we're here to normalize sleep monitoring devices that you wear on your head. 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:12.583 It's a headband. It's called the Dreem 2. 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:16.860 Okay, there's probably two different kinds of people who are clicking on this video. 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 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. 00:00:24.700 --> 00:00:28.210 Maybe this person's a body hacker. Maybe this person has a sleep condition, 00:00:28.210 --> 00:00:31.580 like when you flail your limbs around and wake yourself up, 00:00:31.580 --> 00:00:35.180 or you have apnea or insomnia. That person might be a little disappointed 00:00:35.180 --> 00:00:38.520 because I only used this for 10 nights, 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 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. 00:00:47.690 --> 00:00:50.850 But I can tell you what this thing feels like to sleep in 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. 00:00:57.210 --> 00:01:02.080 Here you go. Dreem 2. There's two boxes here. 00:01:02.080 --> 00:01:05.460 One is the headband itself, and one is a charging dock. 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. 00:01:09.450 --> 00:01:13.080 I didn't have the charger, but fortunately, as we're going to find out, 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. 00:01:19.600 --> 00:01:25.540 This is the headband. Pretty cool. It's really fabric-ey. 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. 00:01:30.147 --> 00:01:33.940 "What's it like to sleep in? What sleep positions can I comfortably be in? 00:01:33.940 --> 00:01:37.210 Is this thing gonna fly off my head? Is it gonna fit my head?" 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. 00:01:41.670 --> 00:01:45.050 I found wearing this at night was really no problem. 00:01:45.050 --> 00:01:50.020 I found that I could sleep in any position without really any effect. 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. 00:01:54.600 --> 00:01:59.600 It has electrodes that measure EEG, your brain waves. 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. 00:02:03.220 --> 00:02:07.130 I recommend washing your face before bed so this doesn't turn into some kinda gross, 00:02:07.130 --> 00:02:11.800 stinky, pimple-inducing helmet. And then there's these polymer electrodes. 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:15.610 They're plastic and flexible. They're on the back. More on those in a bit. 00:02:15.610 --> 00:02:18.910 There's also this little adjustment area right here. 00:02:18.910 --> 00:02:22.040 I guess these are velcro, so you can put them 00:02:22.040 --> 00:02:26.640 at various points on this band. I didn't have to adjust that much at all, 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. 00:02:31.630 --> 00:02:37.530 And inside the box... Oh god. There's adapters for the charger. 00:02:37.530 --> 00:02:41.460 This is the wall wart. The American one goes in here. 00:02:41.460 --> 00:02:46.460 Inside there box there was also extra adjustment things. 00:02:46.700 --> 00:02:52.070 So I believe you can go from 520-millimeter head circumference to 610, 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 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:00.220 how wide the adjustment band is using these extra... 00:03:01.290 --> 00:03:07.630 This is the one for girthy melons. This is the one for little, tiny alien heads. 00:03:07.630 --> 00:03:11.590 Nice to have, but I don't know how many people are gonna need those. 00:03:11.590 --> 00:03:13.713 Is this? Oh, this comes off. 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. 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. 00:03:26.140 --> 00:03:30.920 And then, in this little box, is just the USB Micro B charger. 00:03:30.920 --> 00:03:34.680 Oh my god. I'm all thumbs today! I had a problem with charging. 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. 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, 00:03:44.710 --> 00:03:49.280 you would assume that battery capacity is gonna shrink over time, so it's kinda like 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 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:57.610 have a night's worth of battery over a long time, 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 00:04:01.440 --> 00:04:05.510 and leave it charging all day, so the battery's often gonna be at 100%, 00:04:05.510 --> 00:04:08.740 which isn't very good for lithium-ion batteries. Now, the issue that I have, though, 00:04:08.740 --> 00:04:12.010 is that if you get to bed and you haven't charged it 00:04:12.010 --> 00:04:15.550 and you only have about 40% left, or at 35%, 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. 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 00:04:49.850 --> 00:04:54.850 And it doesn't have a USB port on it. 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:58.950 Oh! I was wondering what these little silver nubs were. 00:04:58.950 --> 00:05:02.140 I guess that's pretty cool. And you can see, the headband is so light 00:05:02.140 --> 00:05:07.200 that it can be on there in this avant garde kind of physics-defying posture. 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 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. 00:05:15.790 --> 00:05:19.050 Okay, back to what it looks like. The design's weird, right? 00:05:19.050 --> 00:05:23.700 Because most of this is just headband. There are sensors in here, yes, and sensors here, 00:05:23.700 --> 00:05:27.950 but all the battery and the onboard computer are all in this heavy part, 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, 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, 00:05:36.750 --> 00:05:40.400 unless you sleep like one of those babies who flattens their head against the ground 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, 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. 00:05:50.610 --> 00:05:53.650 You know? Oh, I'm just gonna... I'll just be here. 00:05:53.650 --> 00:05:59.310 Or here. Or here. And this is flat enough that it doesn't really matter. 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. 00:06:04.078 --> 00:06:07.530 Your headphone headband can easily go over and, 00:06:07.530 --> 00:06:13.960 pretty much, these are so low-profile that having earphones go on there totally works. 00:06:13.960 --> 00:06:17.720 This thing does not have any EMF while you're using it. 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:21.130 I mean, I'm not the kinda person that thinks I'm getting coronavirus from 5G, 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 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, 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:35.470 and then you set up that, "I'm going to sleep right now," 00:06:35.470 --> 00:06:40.220 you put it on, it severs those connections, and then the rest of the data collection 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. 00:06:46.390 --> 00:06:49.900 Pretty cool. But the downside of that is that every time 00:06:49.900 --> 00:06:53.490 you want to start a night or finish the night 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 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," 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:07.020 and just connects. Instead, you have to open the app, go to a new thing. 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. 00:07:10.550 --> 00:07:15.800 And then, you see this little exclamation mark? You gotta go, I'm gonna pair it. 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. 00:07:22.457 --> 00:07:27.520 "Your headband is currently being paired. Your headband is initializing. Successfully paired." 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:30.620 So it takes like 45 seconds every time, 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, 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. 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 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:48.630 about how your sleep was the night before. And you get this right away. 00:07:48.630 --> 00:07:52.240 There's a lotta features of the app that you only get after your first week, 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:55.690 so they can kinda collate how you sleep week-to-week 00:07:55.690 --> 00:08:01.080 and your tendencies overall on average, but right away, you do get this cool feature, 00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:04.090 you get a card for each night. So let's look at Monday, June 22nd, 00:08:04.090 --> 00:08:08.270 the last time I used this puppy. Apparently I slept for seven hours. 00:08:08.270 --> 00:08:12.310 I got an efficiency of 94%. I don't really know what that means. 00:08:12.310 --> 00:08:17.240 It took me 16 minutes to fall asleep. I woke up only once, for two minutes. 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:21.150 And the adherence to my sleep schedule was a three out of five. 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. 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. 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. 00:08:35.940 --> 00:08:39.220 I'm sorry, Dreem. Okay, but here's the cooler stuff. 00:08:39.220 --> 00:08:43.020 There's sensors on here for measuring your heart rate. 00:08:43.020 --> 00:08:46.640 And also your blood saturation level, although I don't think they've implemented that 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. 00:08:51.130 --> 00:08:54.520 And that will let you know whether you woke up due to respiratory issues. 00:08:54.520 --> 00:08:58.570 My average breathing was 17 CPM. What is C... 00:08:58.570 --> 00:09:02.170 C's. C's per minute? I don't know what that is. 00:09:02.170 --> 00:09:07.540 49 movements. Seven-hour duration. I did some deep sleeping. Some light sleep. 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. 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, 00:09:16.940 --> 00:09:20.040 and she's a butthole sometimes and wants to eat 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, 00:09:23.860 --> 00:09:29.160 the little dude here is changing position. I often fall asleep on my left side. 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. 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, 00:09:37.770 --> 00:09:42.320 this would totally not be worth the 500 U.S. dollars that it costs. 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:46.900 500 U.S. dollars. This is the equivalent of something like 23andMe, 00:09:46.900 --> 00:09:50.270 where you get it and it's cool for like a day, 00:09:50.270 --> 00:09:54.880 and then who cares? You never really open it up again. 23andMe is not $500. 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. 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.930 It also has an integrated alarm clock, 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., 00:10:06.630 --> 00:10:10.060 because I'm a masochist." You can actually set a window of five to 50 minutes 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, 00:10:14.750 --> 00:10:18.080 so that you can wake up not feeling groggy, but kinda ready to go, you know? 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:21.700 And you're just kinda, "Aw, yeah!" Sit up in bed like a mummy, "Ha!" 00:10:21.700 --> 00:10:25.360 Ready to go. You can do that. The issue that I have with that, though, 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:29.240 is that this uses bone conduction audio, 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:32.690 little vibrations in the headband you can hear sound through, 00:10:32.690 --> 00:10:37.107 instead of having like an earpiece. And so when it speaks to you, saying like, 00:10:37.107 --> 00:10:41.830 "Night started," or like, "Battery charged," that's all through bone conduction, 00:10:42.760 --> 00:10:46.280 and so is the alarm clock. And the alarm clock noise that I chose 00:10:46.280 --> 00:10:49.410 was some kind of shaker sound, like shick-shick-shick-shick, 00:10:49.410 --> 00:10:52.540 but it's pretty quiet and I felt like 00:10:52.540 --> 00:10:56.777 I slept through it a lot. And one time, even, my wife was like, 00:10:56.777 --> 00:11:00.030 "Uh, hey. Your thing's going off." 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 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 00:11:08.970 --> 00:11:12.900 and then play pink noise to make you go into a deeper sleep, 00:11:12.900 --> 00:11:16.320 so it can actually improve your sleep. I didn't really see that. 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, 00:11:21.410 --> 00:11:24.500 where it seemed to just do the pink noise like all night. 00:11:24.500 --> 00:11:27.860 But again, it's quiet enough that it wasn't too disruptive. 00:11:27.860 --> 00:11:32.350 Another feature that they have is onset experiences to help you fall asleep. 00:11:32.350 --> 00:11:36.390 There's like a meditation thing, or breathing or calming noises, 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 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, 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 00:11:50.510 --> 00:11:53.560 consistently over a six-month period, and that is life-changing. 00:11:53.560 --> 00:11:58.090 Another concern I have with this thing is that I got a flag in the app 00:11:58.090 --> 00:12:02.690 that said that it wasn't collecting data as efficiently as possible, 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 00:12:07.460 --> 00:12:11.810 as clearly as they could. But the thing is, I have pretty short hair back there. 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 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. 00:12:21.550 --> 00:12:26.080 And so that's kinda concerning. And it also provides no detail to you 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:31.230 as to what kind of effect that diminished reading is having on your data. 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 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 00:12:39.780 --> 00:12:43.680 a little patch for this just to slot right into, but no one's doing that. 00:12:43.680 --> 00:12:49.220 So should you buy this for 500 U.S. dollars? Well, maybe. But do your research. 00:12:49.220 --> 00:12:52.630 There are a couple of competitors, but as I understand it, this is pretty good. 00:12:52.630 --> 00:12:56.970 And compared to a sleep study, this is way cheaper than that. 00:12:56.970 --> 00:13:00.730 But if it's just like a novelty thing, like you just wanna check it out, 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. 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:11.290 Like, my wife was really interested and she wanted to try it, but again, 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 00:13:15.580 --> 00:13:19.330 who just wants to measure everything, you ketogenic weirdos, 00:13:19.330 --> 00:13:22.560 peeing on little strips and everything. Maybe it's fun for that. 00:13:22.560 --> 00:13:26.390 It's a great Christmas gift, you know? But 500 bucks is pretty damn steep. 00:13:26.390 --> 00:13:29.460 I'm not saying it's not worth it, but you gotta be the right person. 00:13:29.460 --> 00:13:34.060 Anyway, thanks for watching ShortCircuit today. Maybe I'll wear this the rest of the summer. 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 00:13:37.800 --> 00:13:41.760 I'm a time traveler, you know? If you liked this video, get subscribed. 00:13:41.760 --> 00:13:46.640 And just watch all of them. Just watch 'em all. Just never leave us.