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[gwern]

Zeo Inc is almost certainly shutting down.

Zeo users should assume the worst and take action accordingly:

1. Update your sleep data and then export all your sleep data from the Zeo website as a CSV (the bar on the right hand side, in tiny grey text)
2. Upgrade your Zeo with the new firmware if you have not already done so, so it will store unencrypted data which can be accessed without the Zeo website.
3. Depending on how long you plan to use your Zeo, you may want to buy replacement headbands (~$15 each, I think you can get a year's use out of them). Amazon still stocks the original bedside unit's replacement headbands and the cellphone/mobile unit replacement headbands but who knows how many they still have?

I'm sad that they're closing down. I've run so many experiments with my Zeo, and there doesn't seem to be any successor devices on the horizon: all the other sleep devices I've read of are lame accelerometer-based gizmos.

[Shepard]

Well, this is disappointing. Thanks for posting this up.

[Gerald W. Gaston]

Yes very disappointing. I have used mine for while, but plot my own data so I don't use the site. I do have the latest firmware to produce the unencrypted data, Looks like I'll be picking up a spare bedside unit and some head bands. I do remember way before I got this unit there was one other company in this space and it went bust as well.

On the other current devices... none that I see available now (and directly available to the consumer) compare. I use a Fitbit (along with Endomondo Pro) as my 'pedometer' and such but never worry about the data from the sleep monitoring part. It doesn't compare.The only real reason to use it during sleep is so that the time range isn't seen as awake but inactive.

There are some devices that measure other metrics that are useful, but the one I was just looking at seems targeted more at home sleep studies that involve a doctor and not sold directly to consumers. Likely to be very expensive, but I am getting more info on it. Here's the link:

http://clevemed.com/...techspecs.shtml

There is also the Nyx's Somnus shirt... but not sure where that stands. The MIT guys behind it let nyxdevices.com expired on 02/23/2013.

[Gerald W. Gaston]

Wow! The price for Zeo items is really going up on Amazon. Checking eBay now.

[nupi]

considering how badly my zeo worked I say good riddance

[bl4ck1ce]

I know one of the Zeo advisors, and can confirm the company is going under.

[Raptor87]

I bought an axbo a few years ago. It wasnt worth the buck in my opinion. The only thing it measured was my movements. The thing is that the very thing these clocks do, can be done by owning the measuring devices and if someone could program a phone app to register the data. Now when the company is going under, perhaps someone could hack their firmware. Anyone here with some good programming skills?

[Raptor87]

The Jawbone Up bracelet seems to be the new thing.

Scoll here!