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We envision a world where health is harmonized with a personally and professionally fulfilling lifestyle.
What looks like a designer lamp is the most effective wake up light on the market.
One device. Helps in multiple ways.
Mornings. Redefined.
Zeitgeber turns your struggle out of bed into a wellness therapy. With speakers and bright light, your first 10 minutes of the day energize you for the day while you’re still in bed.
We are working hard to compose a device giving you an unprecedented wake-up experience.
Sleep better.
Zeitgeber can shift your sleep-wake cycle. Your tiredness can be raised in the evening, while your alertness will be higher in the morning and throughout the day.
That way, you can fall asleep when you need it. It also helps you get up in the morning, because waking up at the required time feels natural to your body. In other words:
Zeitgeber does not wake you up. By our new light technology, it makes you wake up yourself.
SAD or seasonal affective disorder is a form of bad mood or depression that affects people mostly in the winter months.
Feel better.
Waking up with a light system like it is used in Zeitgeber has been proven to boost mood and help with seasonal depression.
A lack of sleep has vast negative effects on our health and can increase the risk of cancer, Alzheimer’s and heart attacks, among others. Still many people fail to get a good night sleep on a regular basis. Professional demands and social environment make it hard to find a comfortable sleeping schedule.
Instead, sleeping pills that often have long term health effects are used.
But no more.
Our inner clock governs our body’s urge to sleep. This clock can be shifted using so called zeitgebers. The most important one is light.
Exposure to bright light in the morning advances the inner clock. This leads to increased alertness in the morning and increased tiredness in the evening.
Zeitgeber uses light that is 10 times stronger than that of conventional wake-up lights. It uses a specific, balanced wavelength that is optimal to wake you up. With that, the snooze button belongs to the past.
Our sleep is not an on/off setting of our body. We divide it into different stages. When falling asleep, we first experience more shallow phases, before diving into deep sleep. This one we need to feel refreshed in the morning. The brain also enters several phases of REM (Rapid eye movement) sleep a night – this is where our dreams come from.
When waking up, the process of falling asleep should be inverted. We should switch from deep sleep to lighter sleep, before slowly slipping into consciousness. Yet, using standard alarm clocks, this is often not the case. If the alarm rings at the wrong time, we are teared out of our deep sleep. This leads to tiredness and low mood lasting for hours.
A natural dawn simulation, like Zeitgeber, does not wake you up right away. It starts with low intensity light before coming brighter. This enables your body to perform a natural wake-up sequence.
Wake up ready and refreshed.
Bright light has intensities of 2500 lux and above. It can ease symptoms of seasonal affective disorder (SAD). It is, as bright light therapy, an established therapeutic tool for SAD treatment.
Our system reaches these specifications. Furthermore, naturalistic dawn simulation has been shown to improve symptoms of SAD by 49.5% .
Zeitgeber uses the time you need to wake up for a light therapy session. Feel better, just like that.
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