According to an OECD study conducted a few years ago, Japanese sleep the shortest among all 33 member countries. And Japan’s own internal statistics showed that roughly 40% of their population gets less than six hours of sleep. This alarming data triggered the government in 2023 to publish guidelines for recommended amounts of sleep, but that clearly wasn’t enough. The government has now announced that it has developed the ZZZN SLEEP APPAREL SYSTEM, a wearable product designed to improve sleep environments and sleep itself.

Working with digital transformation firm NTT DX Partners and creative design agency Konel, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has announced their innovative sleepwear that allows users to “carry sleep” wherever they go.

The new system, which walks a line between healthcare and fashion, incorporates the concept of ​​”polyphasic sleep,” or segmented sleep in which the day’s sleep is divided into multiple sessions rather than taken all at once. The system provides an optimal sleep environment even outdoors by measuring autonomic nerves and stress levels based on heart rate and heart rate variability obtained by the wearable device. […]

Source: The Japanese Government is Backing this Futuristic Wearable Sleepwear