9 Smart Products To Help to cure Your winter blues

If you just can’t stomach the idea of opening your front door on a frosty February morning to get a morning dose of Vitamin D, hack your mornings with a dawn simulator. Studies have shown that a dawn simulator, which is a device that simulates dawn by gradually filling your bedroom with gentle light over a set period of time, can actually serve as an antidepressant. If you want to really make it easier to get out of bed in those cold winter mornings, this product from PHILIPS.

Keep the air in your home fresh and uplifting with this Vitruvi diffuser. Studies have shown that aromatherapy can be helpful for reducing anxiety and supporting sleep. In addition to its benefits, this diffuser is chic and comes in three colours so there’s bound to be one to match your space.

This Vitamin D tracker app uses the GPS in your phone to find out where you are in the world, and then finds out when you can get vitamin D. The app will send you notifications to make sure you get your sun exposure at optimal times of day. If you tend to notice a difference in your mood based on your sun exposure, you’ll definitely want to use this app to hack your mood.

A proper therapy lamp is one of the most effective and convenient ways to keep your mood up this winter. This top-rated lamp is built based on a model used by researchers around the world and it provides the maximum recommended 10,000 LUX of glare-free white light. It’s big surface area means it’s sure to deliver the light you need. Keep it poised on your desk or dresser and soak in light energy during the day.

Wear these yellow-tinted glasses during the day to shield yourself from the harsh artificial blue light from your devices. Blue light can mess up your sleep schedule, cause headaches, and irritability. Did you know excessive blue light raises your stress hormones – and paired with lack of sunlight, can lead to stress, anxiety, and depression? BluBlox has your back with these tech-driven lenses that don’t look like goggles. The brands SummerGlo glasses keep your peepers protected from your screen light and also include yellow colour therapy to uplift your mood.

Getting your cardio in daily is truly one of the best ways to beat the winter blues. In addition to increasing the quality of your sleep, working out can also kick-start your metabolism, relieve anxiety, and trigger feel-good endorphins. Get your workouts in this month even when you don’t want to leave the house with FitnessBuilder – an app that helps you basically use your phone to turn your place into a gym. With 1,000 workouts to choose from, you can create a plan, schedule workouts, and chart your progress.

You’re cooped up inside for at least another few weeks, so the air quality you breathe may as well be fresh and pure. The Kaiterra Laser Egg monitors major pollutants and other components that affect indoor air quality, including dust, VOCs (chemicals), temperature, and humidity. It may not stop cabin fever, but it’ll keep you breathing easy no matter what.

Staying hydrated is key for keeping your energy up, and in the winter, it’s easy to forget – especially when you’re feeling sluggish and down. This 24oz water bottle with a smart lid measures your liquid intake and sync up your data with your phone so you can keep track of your progress on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. No excuses now.

Everything is just way harder when you’re not sleeping properly – especially when the winter blues hit. Oura is a smart ring you wear on your finger that tracks your vitals and offers you personalized plans for optimizing various aspects of your life – mainly, sleep. It tracks your body temperature, movement and more, and it uses that data to craft a plan to help you get the most quality shut-eye possible. All of the data goes straight to an app where you can see your life in numbers.