Check your Fitbit sleep score tomorrow morning, and you might get a surprise
‘Sleep Animals’ are designed to encourage better habits
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Fitbitis introducing a new feature that will analyze your sleep patterns and tell you which animal they most closely resemble, with tips to help you get a better night’s rest in the future.
Like the newly launchedReadiness Score, which tells you how much energy you have for the day ahead and suggests activities to try accordingly, Sleep Animals is a tool that’s available exclusively toFitbit Premiumsubscribers, and as9to5Googlereports, is currently in beta testing for a small group of users.
We got our first glimpse of Sleep Animalsback in May, when details were discovered tucked away in the installation files for theFitbitAndroid app. However, despite the launch of various other new features for Premium members (includingmeditation sessions with Deepak Chopraandworkouts with Will Smith), there were no further signs of a new sleep-tracking feature.
Now, however, it seems that it’ll soon be ready for release, and able to compare your nocturnal habits to those of eight different animals to help you understand them more easily.
Bear necessities
If you’re one of the users selected for the beta program, you’ll receive your sleep score as normal in the morning, plus a card that informs you whether you slept more like a tortoise (slow to drop off), parrot (restless), hedgehog (shallow), giraffe (short), dolphin (uneven), or bear (good).
Each animal comes with a set of tips to help you reach the gold standard of slumbering like a bear. Adopt new sleeping habits and hopefully you’ll be assigned a different creature in a month’s time.
There’s no indication when Sleep Animals will roll out to all Premium subscribers, but from what we’ve seen it appears that the tool is nearly complete, so hopefully we won’t need to wait much longer.
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Cat is TechRadar’s Homes Editor specializing in kitchen appliances and smart home technology. She’s been a tech journalist for 15 years, and is here to help you choose the right devices for your home and do more with them. When not working she’s a keen home baker, and makes a pretty mean macaron.
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