{"id":775,"date":"2021-03-08T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T10:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/from-posh-blankets-to-aural-apps-the-firms-cashing-in-on-the-demand-for-sleep-aids\/"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:46:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T10:46:43","slug":"from-posh-blankets-to-aural-apps-the-firms-cashing-in-on-the-demand-for-sleep-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/from-posh-blankets-to-aural-apps-the-firms-cashing-in-on-the-demand-for-sleep-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"From posh blankets to aural apps: the firms cashing in on the demand for sleep aids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of slumber-related products have soared during lockdown<\/p>\n<p>There are breathing robots<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/somnox-sleep-robot\/\" title=\"\"> <\/a>versed in \u201cthousands of years of Buddhist breathing techniques\u201d that claim to soothe you to sleep. Then there are weighted blankets that press around 10% of your body weight down as you snooze.<\/p>\n<p>And there are apps, such as supermodel Natalia Vodianova\u2019s Lo\u00f3na, designed to create a \u201csleepscape\u201d by combining visual and aural storytelling with relaxation-based activities such as colouring in. These are just some of the products at the heart of the \u201csleep aid revolution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/mar\/07\/from-posh-blankets-to-aural-apps-the-firms-cashing-in-on-the-demand-for-sleep-aids\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/07d28dc028530d8b402488150edf38bfe5737c04\/0_187_5616_3370\/master\/5616.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4eb9b759e8629d476431a9158314b096\" title=\"From posh blankets to aural apps: the firms cashing in on the demand for sleep aids\" \/>Sales of slumber-related products have soared during lockdown<br \/>\nThere are breathing robots versed in \u201cthousands of years of Buddhist breathing techniques\u201d that claim to soothe you to sleep. Then there are weighted blankets that press around 10% of your body weight down as you snooze.<br \/>\nAnd there are apps, such as supermodel Natalia Vodianova\u2019s Lo\u00f3na, designed to create a \u201csleepscape\u201d by combining visual and aural storytelling with relaxation-based activities such as colouring in. These are just some of the products at the heart of the \u201csleep aid revolution\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of slumber-related products have soared during lockdown There are breathing robots versed in \u201cthousands of years of Buddhist breathing techniques\u201d that claim to soothe you to sleep. Then there are weighted blankets that press around 10% of your body weight down as you snooze. And there are apps, such as supermodel Natalia Vodianova\u2019s Lo\u00f3na, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/from-posh-blankets-to-aural-apps-the-firms-cashing-in-on-the-demand-for-sleep-aids\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From posh blankets to aural apps: the firms cashing in on the demand for sleep aids<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}