The wooden box Mark Zuckerberg invented for his wife to sleep better at night

Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg has devised a simple method to help his wife Priscilla not stay awake at night. And it is very little technological.

And no, it's not up to Facebook to check your notifications. As explained in a post from

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, his wife, pediatrician and philanthropist Priscilla Chan, has trouble falling asleep since the couple had her two daughters.

"Being a mother is difficult," she said.

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. "Since we have girls, Priscilla has a lot of trouble sleeping."

"He wakes up and looks at the time on his phone to see if the girls will wake up soon, and when he sees the time, he is stressed and can not go back to sleep."

"So I decided to build a sleeping box."

There are no screens. It's actually very little technological. This is a wooden box that the creator of Facebook has placed on the bedside table instead of the cell phone. This box emits a faint light in the lower part between six and seven o'clock in the morning.

"The light is visible enough so that if she sees it, it's time for one of us to go see the kids, but weak enough that she's not waking her up if she's still asleep, "says Zuckerberg.

This box emits a faint light in the lower part between six and seven o'clock in the morning.

That way, if you wake up at night and the light is off, you can continue to sleep peacefully, but without the stress that led him to look at his mobile phone to see what time it was.

"This invention worked much better than expected and now Priscilla can sleep at night," said the designer.

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Remove the cell phone before sleeping

We have all experienced this vicious cycle of not being able to sleep at night and consult the cell phone, which aggravates our insomnia.

Sleeping experts warn that this process dramatically reduces the quality of sleep.

This is due to the light from the screens of the device, which the brain reads as daylight. This removes melatonin, the hormone related to healthy circadian rhythms.

"As an engineer, building a device to help my partner sleep better is one of the best ways to express my love and gratitude," Zuckerberg said.

"Several friends have said that they would like to have something similar, so I publish it just in case that would interest a business man and that he be encouraged to build a & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; "Sleeping boxes" for more people. "