Comments on: Using iPad before bed ‘can lead to a poor night’s sleep,’ say researchers

By: RaptorOO7

RaptorOO7 — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:39:39 +0000

It’s more like watching any electronic device before sleep leads to a poor nights sleep, the iPad is just one of MANY devices so its hardly an iPad story. But MDN always giving the straight talk.

By: TimelordValyard

TimelordValyard — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:33:22 +0000

I have issues going to sleep that’s why I bring it to bed. I also take a melatonin supplement to crash at night.

By: Joe Montana

Joe Montana — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:56:24 +0000

If you lived in CT you might recall the collapse of the bridge over the Mianus River. Then you really could have argued about something!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:53:24 +0000

Actually IIRC old CRT TVs emitted alpha waves that actually induced sleep.

OTOH I always thought it was the programming that put me to sleep.

Whatever.

By: Johnny Tahoe

Johnny Tahoe — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:51:16 +0000

Careful, don’t upset the religious right with such an admission of abject sin on this forum unless you’re up for some verbal abuse.

By: ppctyler

ppctyler — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:14:05 +0000

Its my highlight of the day to be cozy in bed with my wife! 😉

By: jtcdesigns

jtcdesigns — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:34:22 +0000

If the idevice already has auto brightness control… they could have a feature that detects if its dark and the time of day… then a notification asking if you would like to alter the screen for night reading/viewing/whatever

but since this is pretty much a nonissue…. waste of an article

By: jtcdesigns

jtcdesigns — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:27:00 +0000

I’ll actually be doing this soon with an AppleTV attached to it once I move this month.. Having my mac pro in the room makes it nice for watching movies with no need for a tv

By: hoffbegone

hoffbegone — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:51:55 +0000

everyone who lives in a one room apartment?

By: ApplePi

ApplePi — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:44:21 +0000

Who puts a TV in their bedroom? Insane.

By: M

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:52:21 +0000

and it still doesn’t matter (the light that is).

By: eldernorm

eldernorm — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:40:37 +0000

“Suggestion to Apple for iOS 6.1: Settings>Screen>Tint>color slider(indicate orange/red as “night” and blue/white as “day.””

I think there is already an app for that! lol

Just a thought.

By: Joe Plumber

Joe Plumber — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:26:50 +0000

blow me bitch. I like sepia better.

By: mossman

mossman — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:52:16 +0000

Simplistic and inaccurate summaries of science articles is the hallmark of mainstream media. Don’t follow their example.

By: mossman

mossman — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:27:08 +0000

Lawmakers get paid far more to act like spoiled kindergarten brats and make laws that interfere with your life in their respective local, state and federal legislatures. Get some perspective.

By: uh

uh — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:12:03 +0000

Researches insist the orange-ish red-ish colour of daylight doesn’t keep people awake, but the blue light of dusk and night does keep people awake.

Yes. These people deserve funding.

By: disposableidentity

disposableidentity — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:07:50 +0000

That’s not actually what the “Inter” in Internet stands for.

But I get your point.

Anyway, it was a joke. Does sarcasm not translate across international lines?

By: DRMSSDB

DRMSSDB — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:34:51 +0000

I believe this is a case of YMMV. My wife falls asleep reading a book most nights and half the time it is a printed book, half the time it is an iPad.

I have no problems falling asleep watching TV or Netlfix on my iPad.

Just as that anecdotal evidence does not prove the problem does not exist, I suspect the studies do not prove that everyone has this problem. The important phrase here is “can lead”.

By: Billy Mitchell

Billy Mitchell — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:34:11 +0000

I miss the old days of breaking news before an impending product announcement. Instead of this drivel.

By: MacRaven

MacRaven — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:17:05 +0000

I agree. It’s anything with a bright backlit light though. If I’m on my laptop in bed to surf until I feel sleepy, it takes me longer to fall asleep after I close the lid than if I read a normal printed book. It’s weird because I’ll feel tired of reading, but my mind seems to stay too active to fall asleep even though my eyes feel tired. With a book, no problem. Noticed that a long time ago. But it doesn’t stop me from doing it.

By: RobG

RobG — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:00:46 +0000

Well said

By: pablorph

pablorph — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:58:41 +0000

Freaking obvious idiots.

By: crisrod63

crisrod63 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:57:44 +0000

I take my iPad to bed every night. As a matter of fact, that is when I use it. I sleep like a baby. So I call this bull.

By: Weekend

Weekend — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:40:55 +0000

Because you can’t fix stupid. Let’s face it, if I take my flat screen TV to bed with me I probably will have a difficult time going to sleep. So I don’t take it to bed with me. I also do not take a 1966 427 Dickie Harrell Rat Motor COPO Yenko Chevy II to bed with me either. Although it is tempting. No, I try not to do just really stupid things. I am a bit of a night owl but that’s my fault. Been that way all my life. So now I can blame my new iPad? Wow, I’ll bet this is a government-funded study too? Idiots!

By: David Thornton

David Thornton — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:45:23 +0000

This research is Rediculous!

By: alanaudio

alanaudio — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:59:37 +0000

The research was performed on a sample of 13 ( yes, thirteen ) students.

It looks like more effort was spent trying to fit the word “iPad” into the headline than was done on the original research.

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:03:47 +0000

And these people get paid for this?

By: Hg Wells

Hg Wells — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:49:26 +0000

I agree with MDN’s Take. Hopefully, Apple® will, too.

By: Ivar

Ivar — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:20:33 +0000

When it is positive: We say tablet market
When negative: We call it iPad

These so called researchers should know that even a siple guy like me knows that the production of melatonin stops when there is light and starts up again when the light goes. So yes, the light from the tablet will cause the melatonin to stop, like the tv that is on in the bedroom. (you know, the thing that you wake up in the middle of the night and you discover you fell asleep watching?)

By: slimbimjim

slimbimjim — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:16:35 +0000

Have you considered why most of us take an iPad to bed in the first place?

By: peterblood71

peterblood71 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:08:28 +0000

Yeah this is what I really wanted an iPad for. I always turn down the light to a minimal good enough setting. It is a highlight of my day to be cozy in bed and have the world at my fingertips. I’ve also learned techniques where I can fall asleep and the iPad shuts itself off. What I really want is something like Dr. McCoy’s Sickbay bed reader that swings over the bed. I know there are some over-bed iPad arm things out there but haven’t bought one yet.

By: Apple is Always Right

Apple is Always Right — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:52:33 +0000

INTERnet… international network… 24hrs open… duh.

By: Apple is Always Right

Apple is Always Right — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:51:46 +0000

INTERnet = international network = 24hrs open. duh

By: disposableidentity

disposableidentity — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:40:32 +0000

MDN posts this around midnight.

23 comments already.

Case closed.

By: Roasted

Roasted — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:34:50 +0000

Agreed.

I guess he’s saying that it’s worse to read and iPad (or look at porn) then it is reading a book or browsing through a Playboy like in the old days?

The dude needs to get a life and get laid! haha

By: dickawesome

dickawesome — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:20:12 +0000

it’s easy to call this BS for those of us who have always used our computers/laptops before we go to sleep, some of us even relying on it IN ORDER to go to sleep.

But I think you’re missing the point.

All of a sudden there is this incredible light weight device that we can lay comfortably with into the wee hours. The iPad will contour itself to whatever position you are in, meaning you’re likely staring at it far closer to bedtime then we as humans did before with our laptops (while versatile, still require a number of different body positions to maintain usability) or our desktops (which had us sitting in order to use them).

The fact is, the iPad has made using ‘tech before bed’ a commonplace occurrence that most non nerds are likely unaccustomed to. More and more people are going through this process and at closer and closer to whatever our normal bed time is.

Even if this fact is old news, or hard to credit, there is a whole new population demographic exposed to it, and in ways the laptop or desktop have never proved.

In the end, I think MDN’s take is spot on, and I rarely agree with any MDN ‘take’.

By: The Other Steve

The Other Steve — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:15:54 +0000

So, this is an iPad problem? Should I get a color Kindle or something else?

People have been using their laptops (and LCD desktops) long before the iPad came along.
The story should read
“Using LCD screens before bed ‘can lead . . .”

But then I guess you wouldn’t get as many hits.

By: Prophet HUP

Prophet HUP — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:07:39 +0000

Hmmm. I get no sleep at all when I use my iPad all night long.
Crazy, but I often have to stop using it when I find myself doozzzzing off. Why did they have to do research to find out the obvious?

By: BMWTwisty

BMWTwisty — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:06:37 +0000

They’d be mutually inclusive ;^)

By: Apple is Always Right

Apple is Always Right — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:49:25 +0000

iPad = poor sleep > Droid = nightmare

By: KenC

KenC — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:37:08 +0000

I’ve f.lux on my mac. I hope they add it to iOS.

By: Me so smaht

Me so smaht — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:13:09 +0000

Such a genius that you don’t use night mode?

Either way, still a blue/white backlight, genius.

By: althegeo

althegeo — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:57:36 +0000

Is physical stimulus before your normal bedtime OK?

By: NHL

NHL — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:50:07 +0000

Using a Samsung tablet before bed ‘puts the user to sleep,’ say researchers.

By: auramac

auramac — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:37:34 +0000

My sister and I used to argue about whose “Ami” it was. We were very young and competitive, and both insisted it was “My-Ami.”

By: BMWTwisty

BMWTwisty — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:35:32 +0000

Exactly. Just about any mental stimulus before your normal bedtime can introduce sleep problems.

By: Thelonious Mac

Thelonious Mac — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:35:22 +0000

Researchers, “scientists,” “Analysts,” etc. etc. etc.

By: qka

qka — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:29:58 +0000

When I was a kid, and the weather report talked about Miami, I assumed that was the announcer’s “Ami”, and maybe other people had their own “Ami”.

By: silverhawk1

silverhawk1 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:28:45 +0000

They must think we are on a submarine in WWII getting ready to surface at night. BS!

By: iShag

iShag — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:17:26 +0000

Put away that iPad and shag your wife instead. This results in better sleep and happier wife. Believe me, it works…