Don’t Sleep With Your Apple iPad!
If you’ve become addicted to your new Apple iPad, you might want to think twice before reading on it before bedtime, as it can affect your sleeping habits. In fact, viewing any sort of content on consumer electronics devices before bedtime, including TV, can affect sleep patterns.
If you enjoy a good read before bedtime on your iPad, whether using Apple’s new iBooks feature or one of the several other quality book-reader apps, you might want to change your plans. Sleep experts are saying that e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle actually have an advantage over the iPad. According to the LA Times, Kindle uses Sony technology called e-paper that simulates printed pages and reduces emission of light. Meaning you can read with the Kindle in sunlight.
On the other hand, iPads use an LCD screen like computers and TV sets, whose use before sleep has been pooh-poohed by experts in the past. More at the LA Times Tech blog.
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