Technology has been with us for more than last couple of hundred years. It has touched our lives even before fire was invented and the wheel was discovered.

Technology is a combination of science and engineering. It does a function better and faster both in quality and quantity. It has an influence in all fields and touches space, air, water and earth. Applications are just a small part of technology that can give a hand in everything in your life. They run with the touch of our finger. We live in the presence of applications from the time we are awake to asleep.

One such application is Sony’s Smart Pillow. Sony recently applied a patent for a high-tech smart pillow that can help you to wake up. The pillow filled with electrodes will monitor brain waves. There are no annoying glue and wires that get tangled when you sleep; instead electrodes and sensors are embedded into the pillow. The pillow will detect the user REM period which usually accounts for about 25% of our total amount of sleep. The pillow is with a timer which starts when someone begins a brief nap. When the person leaves the REM stage, an alarm goes off which will wake them at precisely the right moment. The alarm can be either selected as a buzzer, a flashing light, or a bed-shaking motor. While Sony's pillow is a future concept, there are so many wake applications available in the market. There are alarm clocks with different sounds and methods to switch off the alarm to wake you.

Another example is Urban Apps’s Ambiance which can make you sleep in bliss. It creates a surrounding with a perfect ambient atmosphere to relax, focus or reminisce. Fall asleep to the comfort of 3500 sounds and you can doze off gently as it fades out. Wake up gently to a sound fading in slowly so that you can start your day right off. Watch the video for demonstration.

Application pzizz sleep is similar to Urban Apps’s Ambiance and has a range of scientific techniques like binaural beats and neuro-linguistic programming that creates more than one billion soundtrack combinations, so your mind won't get bored by the monotony of a repetitive track every night. It has different modes to customize.

It’s true that technology has speed up our work and given more leisure time. What do we do with this leisure time?
Most of us will be using another technology for example the below video .

Technology helps to cover the distances between people, and not to distance people. We should enjoy the entertainment it brings along. It can comfort us when we are alone but making ourselves lonely to get comforted and entertained by it is not right.
Let's use it to improve our productivity and get more time out to enjoy life rather than it taking away our life.

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