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PayPal Working!
After fiddling around with the checkout process for a month, we managed to get PayPal order processing working! Up until recently, we could only take PayPal when someone "sent" money to us and told...
RealSleep for Adults Now Available!
The inventors of RealSleep were interviewed at Boston's NPR station. You can listen samples of the RealSleep CD at "Music That Messes With Your Brain To Help You Sleep." To order RealSleep by Dr....
Black SleepPhones Most Popular
Over time, we've noticed that black SleepPhones seem to be the most popular color. It's a particular problem right now because we're sending out a big wholesale order to ThinkGeek. They order all...
Smarthome Expresses Interest in Carrying SleepPhones
I've bought some battery-powered motion-activated LED lights from them before. The staircase down to SleepPhones Headquarters has a nice over head light, but that light is so high up that I'm...
Centerpointe: Holosync
Centerpointe, the people who make Holosync just contacted us! I think we might have contacted them in the past, but it's nice that they are now coming to us! We hope to be able to forge a...
ThinkGeek SleepPhones Are Flying Off the Shelves!
We're big fans of ThinkGeek. My last Valentine's present and birthday present were both from there apparently. And I loved the gifts! I've been using them for the garden. I guess that makes me a...
Social Media Widgets
After attending a CEA webcast about social media networking, I've taking a fresh look at the big ones - Facebook and Twitter. We had played with their widgets in the past, but they were not very...
PR firm Lotus823
SleepPhones is excited to begin working with the public relations firm Lotus823. They contacted us last week after finding out that we will be at the CEA Linshows. The managing partner and I talked...
Baltimore's first B'More Healthy Expo
SleepPhones had a booth at the B'More Healthy Expo this past weekend. We screened people for Excessive Daytime Sleepiness using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale. And we also demonstrated how SleepPhones...
Dr. Puff Enjoys Wearing SleepPhones for Meditation!
Our new affiliate Dr. Robert Puff makes a great meditation podcast. We are sponsoring his episodes and hope that the podcasts will become more popular. He also produces a TV show called the...
ThinkGeek :: SleepPhones Headphones
ThinkGeek :: SleepPhones Headphones
Sheep Collected Morels!
Our stuffed sheep went out an found us mushrooms for lunch! He's very proud.
Polysomnography in a Sleep Study
Our friend Nicole in St. Petersburg, Florida is studying to be a polysomnographer, someone who supervises patients getting a sleep study. Since the obesity rate is rising, the rate of sleep apnea is...
Affiliates System for SleepPhones
We finally have the affiliate system working. We had to make changes in our website, Drupal installation, DreamHost, Yahoo website, Google Checkout, and probably a few more places so that...
Sheep Stuffed Animal with Pocket
Sheep caught a butterfly! Be careful with it - pet gently! Sheep is watching a baby shitake mushroom grow. Sheep can finally hold an iPhone in his back...
New Hire - from Bellefonte High School
We like to hire employees that are local, dedicated to quality, and can represent our company. Our neighbor's son is our latest employee. He's still a sophomore in high school and not yet 16, but he...
BlueSleep in Manhattan
I met Dr. Jordan Stern at the Sleep Health and Safety conference in DC on March 5th. He's an otolaryngologist (Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor) in Manhattan who has a special interest in sleep. He...
Headphones Splitter and Volume Control Extension Cord
We are now carrying a headphone splitter and an extension cord with volume control. Customers have been asking about such items, so we decided to start carrying them. We don't manufacture them at...
Lumie Elite 300 Sleep-Alarm Clock
BioBrite is a great company based in Maryland that designs high-quality full-featured light-box alarm clock. It's basically everything sleep experts recommend for you to have at the night stand,...
New SleepPhones Pictures!
Last weekend, we went to Philadelphia to hang out with our photographer, Carina Romano. She took some new pictures for us! We're very excited because they turned out so well. Here are a few...
Shifted Circadian Rhythm and Treatment
Subjective: M.M. is a graduate student, with a huge work load but no regular work hours required during the research months. So he ends up going to bed at 5 a.m. and waking up at 11 a.m. every day...
New Sheep Design?
Our graphic designer came up with a new design for our sheep. We really loved him the way he was, but perhaps the new design would depict our product better. But then again, no one would recognize...
eBay Coupons
Well, that's new. Coupons are now being sold on eBay. A special customer gets a nice coupon, and they turn around and sell it on eBay. Interesting idea. I suppose that's fine with us. It gets us more...
High School Students Need 9 Hours of Sleep
High school students average 7 hours of sleep on school nights and 8.5 hours on weekends. That's not enough, according to Dr. Jodi Mindell, the Associate Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the...
Medications That Can Cause Insomnia
If you have chronic insomnia, sometimes it's due to medications or drug-like substances that you take for other purposes. Here's a list of some of the most common medications that can contribute to...
Shift Work Increases Breast Cancer Risk
1 in 5 Americans work the night shift. Half of shift workers have a difficult time with sleep. Working the night shift puts people at risk for many problems including the following. stomach and...
Poor Sleep Is Related to Increased Death
Adults who take longer than 30 minutes to fall asleep have more than twice the risk of death than adults who take less than 30 minutes to fall asleep. It's okay. That doesn't mean that the next...
Night Owls Should Avoid Blue Light in Evenings; Larks Should Use Blue Light in Evenings
From March 7-13, we are celebrating National Sleep Awareness Week! There will be a new announcement every day, full of tips about sleep and fun SleepPhones Specials. Currently, we are offering free...
National Sleep Awareness Week
From March 7-13, we are celebrating National Sleep Awareness Week! There will be a new announcement every day, full of tips about sleep and fun SleepPhones Specials. Currently, we are offering free...
Bugs with the Website Upgrade = Free Shipping!
Well, the first night, we had left 2 options for checkout accidentally, and a few people tried to check out using the wrong option. Then there were many minor bugs, like missing links and such. Those...