A device and system for providing identification and medical information are disclosed. The device includes a readable code that contains medical biographical information of the subject, a programmable reporter element that is programmed to electronically store at least one particular event relating to the subject, and a signal producing element functionally related to the programmable reporter element. The system includes collecting and storing medical biographical information of a subject, embedding the medical biographical information in a readable code of the device, and scanning the readable code of the device worn by or in the possession of the subject using an appliance to retrieve the medical biographical information of the subject. The medical biographical information allows medical professionals to obtain the subject's medical information in order to provide medical care. Also disclosed is an integrated system for alerting subjects to upcoming events related to their continued care.

A time management system includes a graphical user interface generated by an application on a mobile computing device. The graphical user interface is displayed on a touch-sensitive display of the mobile computing device and includes a substantially circular dial. The dial has an outer region and an inner region circumscribed by the outer region, the outer region representing a time domain and displaying one or more icons thereon to represent an associated one or more events to occur at a time of the time domain. The inner region displays information relating to at least one user selected event represented by the one or more icons in the outer region.

Techniques for optimizing the display area of an electronic display of an article include maximizing the contiguous area of the display, on one or more surfaces of the article, on which text or images may be presented to a user, and/or to minimize the area of a border of the display that is viewable to the user. Optimization techniques may include bending portions of the display, and/or minimizing the footprint of the display border by particularly configuring the electrical connections to the display elements. These optimization techniques may be applied to rigid electronic displays, to statically-flexed displays, or to dynamically flexible displays, as well as to other rigid, statically-flexed, or dynamically flexible electronic sheets of individual electronic elements, such as lighting arrays, solar cell arrays, sensor arrays, etc.

A sleep training clock can be configured to assist in sleep training. The sleep training clock is shaped like a robot having a face, a torso, and two legs; two LEDs disposed in the face and three LEDs disposed in the torso; and a digital clock face disposed in the torso. Additionally, circuitry for performing sleep training is configured to determine whether the electronic device is in a wake state and turn on the two LEDs disposed in the face and turn off the three LEDs disposed in the torso in response, determine whether the electronic device is in a sleep state and turn off the two LEDs disposed in the face and turn on the three LEDs disposed in the torso in response.

A sleep training clock can be configured to assist in sleep training. The sleep training clock is shaped like a robot having a face, a torso, and two legs; two LEDs disposed in the face and three LEDs disposed in the torso; and a digital clock face disposed in the torso. Additionally, circuitry for performing sleep training is configured to determine whether the electronic device is in a wake state and turn on the two LEDs disposed in the face and turn off the three LEDs disposed in the torso in response, determine whether the electronic device is in a sleep state and turn off the two LEDs disposed in the face and turn on the three LEDs disposed in the torso in response.

A processor-based personal electronic device (such as a smartphone) is programmed to automatically respond to data sent by various sensors from which the user's activity may be inferred. One or more alarms on the device may be temporarily disabled when sensor data indicates that the user is asleep. One or more of the sensors may be worn by the user and remote from the device. A wireless communication link may be used by the device to obtain remote sensor data. Data from on-board sensors in the device—such as motion sensors, location sensors, ambient light sensors, and the like—may also be used to deduce the user's current activity. User data (such as calendar entries) may also be used to determine likely user activity and set alarms accordingly. Biometric data from a second, nearby person may also be used to automatically select certain alarm modes on a first person's device.

A system for updating alarm settings based on a meeting invitation that is received outside of predefined business hours. The system monitors incoming communications on behalf of a user to determine when a meeting invitation that is received outside of the predetermined business hours satisfies one or more criteria that have been previously defined by the user. Then, the system updates alarm settings on behalf of the user. In this way, the system can update an alarm time when a meeting request is received during nighttime hours without the user being disturbed. The updated alarm settings cause a client device to sound an alarm signal at an updated time that is earlier than a user-defined time—thereby alerting (e.g., waking) the user with enough time to participate in the requested meeting at the requested time and without disturbing the user in the middle of the night.

The alarm clock with keypad comprises a housing and an alarm clock. The alarm clock is an electric circuit. The housing contains the alarm clock. The alarm clock: a) displays the time; b) generates an alarm at a previously specified time; and, c) discontinues the generated alarm when the generated sequence of alphanumeric characters are entered into the alarm clock with keypad.

An audible wrist watch assembly includes a wrist watch that is wearable on a user's wrist. An audio unit is coupled to the wrist watch and the audio unit emits a plurality of time alerts. The audio unit emits each of the time alerts upon the respective hour of the day to audibly communicate the hour of the day to a visually impaired user. A reminder unit is coupled to the wrist watch and the reminder unit stores a plurality of verbal reminders. Each of the verbal reminders is programmable to correspond to a respective hour of the day. Moreover, the reminder unit audibly emits each of the verbal reminders at the respective hour of the day to remind the user to perform a task at a certain time.

A method is provided for measuring a wake up indicator, where the wake up indicator gives the likelihood of a user waking up undesirably. It is based on the knowledge that waking up during deep NREM sleep is not desirable due to sleep inertia and on the recognition that it is also undesirable to wake up during REM sleep due to atonia. A sleep inertia estimation is determined to estimate if the user is in NREM sleep and an atonia estimation is determined to estimate if the user is in REM sleep. The wake up indicator is determined from the sleep inertia estimation and the atonia estimation. The wake up indicator thus may be used as an indicator for the time when it is suitable to wake up the user in a way which avoids arousal from a deep sleep state or from REM sleep, during which atonia may arise.