Today’s wearable computers help you sleep, not tweet

January 5, 2012
Lark

Lark is a wearable sleep monitor that tracks people’s sleep habits and then visualizes the results on a smartphone (credit: Lark)

New wearable devices are helping to promote wellness by helping people understand health issues before they became problems, New York Times Bits reports.

Lark, a start-up based in Mountain View, Calif., makes a wearable sleep tracking monitor that tracks more than 3,000 micro data points each night through a wrist device users put on before going to sleep.

Lark’s software, which runs on a smartphone, then parses through all the micro-motions it has tracked throughout the night and makes recommendations to users.

See also: Wearing your computer on your sleeve.