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A cool read I thought I'd share - new products etc...

http://www.sleepreviewmag.com/2015/10/n ... ucts-2015/

Thanks for the link! The Zmachine Insight was kind of interesting because it can measure when you are awake or asleep as well as the various sleep stages. Kind of pricey though, at $500 or $600 depending on the model. Plus the cost of the non-reusable sensors at $80 for 40 nights worth, so $2 sensor cost every night you used it - $720 each year just for the sensors! $1220 for the first year and $720 from year two on just seems like too much money for home use.

I found the details here: http://www.sleepreviewmag.com/2015/07/g ... p-monitor/ and here: http://generalsleep.com/see-the-data/

Re: Zmachine.

If somebody is still using one of the old Bedside Zeo devices (using the current kludged together sensors and myZeo software) I'd like to see them perform a head to head review against the Zmachine. Granted it is a lot of money for the Zmachine test, especially since the Zeos do a reasonably good job. Maybe some adventurous member could get a free Zmachine to test for a certain time period and then return... that is, in exchange for a CPAPtalk review.

viewtopic/t103547/Help-with-Zeo-Bedside-Unit.html

Glad to see Provent is back, was a solution for some people.

yaconsult wrote:Thanks for the link! The Zmachine Insight was kind of interesting because it can measure when you are awake or asleep as well as the various sleep stages. Kind of pricey though, at $500 or $600 depending on the model. Plus the cost of the non-reusable sensors at $80 for 40 nights worth, so $2 sensor cost every night you used it - $720 each year just for the sensors! $1220 for the first year and $720 from year two on just seems like too much money for home use.

I found the details here: http://www.sleepreviewmag.com/2015/07/g ... p-monitor/ and here: http://generalsleep.com/see-the-data/

I have previously written the company - their market is sleep doctors, not consumers. Same for Advanced Brain Monitoring, but they won't even sell to consumers at all.

fmj13 wrote: I have previously written the company - their market is sleep doctors, not consumers. Same for Advanced Brain Monitoring, but they won't even sell to consumers at all.

It's great fmj13 that you have tried to contact Zmachine and ABM, however IMO, that's a dumb sales strategy for those two companies to pursue. Sleep doctors are notorious for adhering to the typical lock-step mentality of the herd. Yes, I know there are exceptions but I've never met one myself, plus, in my experience, only a few times on CPAPtalk have people described such adventurous sleep MDs. Give the patients another expensive sleep study seems to be the rule of the day. It's also true that insurance companies drive a lot of that pressure I just mentioned.

Thanks for the link. Some very interesting products to watch!