Sleep cycle for the Iphone is a Swedish designed application that turns your little iphone into a sleep tracking monitor, by using the built in accelerometer.

Apparently depending on what phase of sleep your in our boides behave differently. Basicily when we're in a deep and peaceful sleep we're not moving, and when we are in REM or dreaming sleep we're moving and twitching about; the nearer we get rise and shine time the more restless we become.

You set your alarm and the Sleep Cycle app wakes you, in a half hour window just before it goes off. The idea is that you wake peacefully and refreshed, awaking during your lightest sleep/dream phase, ahhh.  You also get a graph of sleep pattern to look at and show your friends.

Sleeping is a serious problem in the UK with nearly a third of us having problems; just look at everyone on the tube in the morning.

I had a go with this a couple of times. First night actually got less sleep because I was worried about my phone exploding and catching light to my bed in the night (the phone has to plugged into the mains and put on the corner of your bed to work). Second night just thought it was a bit weird having my phone watching me sleep, and got even less snooze time. 

Oh well, the graphs look cool though.