Can't sleep? Almost all of us use some sort of technology -- be it, television, laptop or smartphone -- before going to bed, potentially disrupting our sleep for the night, a recent report said.
The National Sleep Foundation found that 95 percent of Americans said that they use technology within an hour before bed at least a few nights a week. The group said that using technology, particularly interactive ones such as video games, just before bed messes up our ability to go to sleep and stay asleep.
Six in ten said they use their laptops or computers before bed. Young Internet users -- about half of those in their 20s and younger -- report surfing the Internet every night or almost every night within the hour before sleep. About a third of young tech users play video games before bed.
About half of younger tech users also text message every night in the hour before going to bed, and one in 10 of the youngest cell phone users -- late teens and early 20s -- said that their cell phones wake them up after they've gone to sleep almost every night. (Via TechCrunch).
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