The Paleo Solution Podcast by Robb Wolf and Greg Everett has really opened my eyes (or, more accurately… shut them) to the extreme importance of good sleep (among a billion other things as well). But how do you really know what quality of sleep you’re getting? You’re asleep so it’s not like you can step outside your body and watch exactly what’s going on inside your brain bucket.

However, a new product by a company named Zeo has a couple of products that might interest you. We’re a fairly “Apple-heavy” family… iPads, iTouches, iPhones, MacBook Pro, so I was excited to see Zeo’s latest product… the Zeo Sleep Manager Mobile. For the low low price of $99 USD, you get a nice little bluetooth-ready headband (and a charging dock) that you wear while sleeping. The headband transmits over bluetooth to your iPhone or iWhatever and collects all of your sleep data. The next day it will show you all kinds of tidbits about your sleep as well as upload the data to their server.

NOTE: These are all screen shots from my iPhone 4S.

Here is the main screen after a night’s sleep. You can see your overall “ZQ” score and a brief summary of time I spent in Deep sleep, REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, Light sleep, the amount of time I was awake, and the total sleep duration.

This is just a break down of the same information… with nice little bars in addition to the actual values.

Here is a breakdown of the entire night in 5-minute intervals… for all the anal-retentive/OCD people who want to know exactly what was going on every five minutes. Eh, it’s cool to see.

This shot is a screen that shows a summary of all of your nights. It’s basically a scrollable list that you can spin through quickly.

If you really want to get geeky you can create an account online with the MyZeo site and your phone will automatically upload the data to that account. You can log into the website and look over the data as well as link that data to other sites such as DailyBurn.com to have your sleep data automatically “pushed” to that account. Again with the OCD!

I’ve had a great time using the product and I definitely can see a difference in my sleep patterns when I’ve had that extra four glasses of wine or the kiddos aren’t sleeping as well as Julie and I would like. And for $99 it’s a nice investment in your health… I think. Give it a shot if you feel so inclined.