The science behind Somnox is sound, and the latest version had input from sleep experts and scientists. If you feel the need, you can set a specific breathing rate, tweak the ratio, and change the breathing intensity of your sleep bot (how loudly and deeply it breathes). It uses a standard ratio of 1:2, so the exhale is twice as long as the inhale. Somnox starts at a breathing pace of 12 breaths per minute and steadily decreases to six.
The default settings worked well for me, and I relaxed and fell asleep faster with Somnox 2 than without. It combines a six-axis accelerator and three-axis gyroscope with a proprietary algorithm to achieve this. If you toggle on “Somnox Sense” and hold it against your body, it will adjust to your breathing rate and help you to take longer and deeper breaths, gradually slowing your heart rate and making it easier to sleep.
You can use the bot to help you calm down or even boost alertness during the day, but it is mainly for helping you get off to sleep at night. The Somnox app offers a variety of breathing exercises. It is eminently easy to cuddle, spoon, or rest a hand on. A pneumatic system inside fills and empties an air bladder in an impressive simulation of natural breathing. It is covered in a soft fabric with memory foam underneath and has a simple control panel to turn it on or off and adjust the volume. Somnox 2 is just over 12 inches long and weighs less than 4 pounds.
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But other major upgrades, such as Bluetooth audio streaming and sleep tracking, are still “coming soon,” making the $600 price tag much harder to swallow than a sleeping pill. Smaller and lighter, the new version boasts a larger breathing area, longer battery life, and an improved speaker. The original Somnox was born of a Kickstarter campaign in 2017, and this improved model has been in the works for four years. You can tweak everything via an app on your phone. Boosting its soporific power is a speaker that plays dreamy soundscapes or nature sounds.
It can adjust to your breathing rate to calm you and help you drop off. Somnox 2 is a limbless bean-shaped torso designed to gradually slow your breathing, as you unconsciously match its rhythm. (It helps that my current sleep partner plays soothing rain sounds and does not need a bottle at 3 am.) Research suggests we report better sleep when bed-sharing, even when objective measures reveal sleep quality has worsened. As I lie in bed spooning my wee robot, one hand on its gently undulating belly as it slows my breathing, I’m struck by the memory of co-sleeping with my kids when they were babies.
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