-App is free to download and available to all (not just guests) on the App store now
The Sleep Art app, available for new generation iPhones and the iOS 5 and 6 operating systems, captures movement and sounds from the users night’s sleep and converts this data into virtual brush strokes so that when the user wakes their sleep is a work of art. It is fun, easy to use and designed to create a ‘happy sleep’.
To start the app, the user sets the alarm clock and plugs in their iPhone before placing the iPhone on the mattress. As the user sleeps, the app runs throughout the night recording the sounds, movements, vibrations and senses of sleep through the app’s motion sensor. The sleeper is woken by Sleep Art’s gentle alarm clock music and discovers the work of art produced by his/her night’s sleep. Users can chart their picture’s progress minute by minute on the screen to see how the art was created during the night.
The art is stored in a virtual gallery so that users can compare each night’s sleep and share with the friends and family via email or Facebook.
Ibis will be the first economy hotel chain to offer an entertainment app but it is not the first time that the hotel group has developed a product for sleep.
Last year, after months of ‘buttock-shaped plunger testing’, ‘human roller testing’ and a sea of experts including doctors, sociologists and ‘bed boffins’, Ibis launched the Sweet Bed™ by ibis – specially designed bed and bedding – to ensure a happy sleep for guests around the globe. The Sleep Art app is the virtual realisation of the Sleep Art robot created for Ibis by ACNE in November 2012, which painted live art works following a motion sensor monitored night’s sleep in a specially created bed that toured across Europe.
With the creation of a new bed, nation-wide refurbishments of UK hotels and creative innovations in sleep art, Ibis is leading the way in the budget hotel stay. Search for a hotel today, in a variety locations, London, Paris or maybeAmsterdam.
