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A New High-Tech Bed
Coincidental with Aperna’s post on husband awake/wife worrying, we bought a new bed last Friday, and it arrived today. I won’t bore you with all the details, but here’s the overview:
I won't bore you with the TempurPedic cooling fabric, breathing surface, foam technology, etc. The fun is in the frame underneath:
Since “Counting Watches” wasn’t reliably keeping me asleep anymore, we decided to try another approach, and visited the local Sleep Emporium (not a real name) and talked to Nathan (real name).
After discussion and a few test stretches on mattresses, I was literally falling asleep on the showroom TempurPedic bed, which happened to be on a Memorial Day sale.
Tempur-Pedic, known for the memory foam mattresses at the core of its brand, was one of the first mattress companies to take advantage of NASA’s invention of memory foam.
We came out with a receipt for a bed one step down from the top-of-the-line, hoping to get most of the features without the last few, highest margin bells & whistles (this works with cars).
Then we went home and sadly contemplated the upheaval that would result in our home’s multiple bedrooms. Move this? Discard that? Put another bed in the guest room? Move a bed to my office / apartment?
In any case it meant clearing space for the new bed. Then scaring away hordes of “dust bunnies” that had grown since we last moved the bed a decade ago.
SHE: cleaning the floor & washing the walls, laundry, etc.
ME: Hide all the watches, throw extra stuff in the closets, close all non-essential doors, air freshener, yada yada.
Nothing more invasive than strangers coming to the master bedroom!
The installers showed up this morning at 9 am sharp. Ding Dong!
Bursting with energy, they hustled giant boxes out of the truck, into the driveway, cut straps, tore open boxes and schlepped the goods into the room.
A quick setup (no testing) and “Slam, Bam, Please Sign Here. This is the user manual & the remote. Good luck, bye bye” and off to the next house…
Leaving us stunned and curious to learn what we had actually purchased, for the price of a Grand Seiko Spring Drive, SS on bracelet.
I won't bore you with the TempurPedic cooling fabric, breathing surface, foam technology, etc. The fun is in the frame underneath:
Obligatory remote (also available, of course, as an App on phone!)
shows the major functions of movement up/down, vibrations, etc. Everything and more that you need to get a good night’s sleep.
We slightly regretted passing on the Bluetooth “vibration to your favorite tunes” function, but we were happy to have convenient USB (both kinds) charging ports on each side of the bed.
The magic, so they say, is that 2 hours after you go to bed, it begins to listen for snoring, and if sensed, it will do some gentle vibrations or lift your head a bit to minimize it.
(I guess the 2 hours are scientifically proven to be the “most active” times when the microphone should NOT be listening… must check the user manual).
Using the remote or app you can raise head, raise feet, support small of your back (lumbar), vibrate top & bottom & center, and assume a Zero-G Astronaut position!
Q: Will my Accutron Spaceview watch work in Zero-G on a NASA-developed foam core mattress? Seems appropriate to check & confirm … ZZZZ… do you suppose they are available on a train?
Got almost the same thing 2 months ago
1 king mattress rather than the split, same functions except zero g. Sleeping much better😊 I really like being to tilt my head and shoulders up.
Thanks for the vote & glad to hear it’s working
We got a single queen but the split picture was prettier for the post 
I’m looking forward to a few good nights of sleep.
I think the best sleep I ever had was years ago on a nice warm water bed. Like being in the womb, if I remember correctly.
Yes, we used to have a water bed, before we got the last mattress
Maybe for 10-15 years. A Southern California favorite. But those aren’t so great if you need to lift head and shoulders, and our homeowner’s insurance didn’t like the water damage risk.
I personally cannot remember the womb, it must be my age...
The one thing with a water bed is you did slosh around a bit.......but back then that was a feature not a bug. lol
Yes, I do remember. How many here had a Water Bed (show of hands, please)
When I had mine in my college dorm room (for a brief time in 1971-72 before the school banned them)
it had no water heater, which was fine in summer but drained my body heat out the rest of the time.
Wikipedia says:
A waterbed, water mattress, or flotation mattress is a bed or mattress filled with water.
Waterbeds intended for medical therapies appear in various reports through the 19th century.
The modern version, invented in San Francisco and patented in 1971, became a popular consumer item in the United States
through the 1980s with up to 20% of the market in 1986 and 22% in 1987.
By 2013, they accounted for less than 5% of new bed sales.
Most recent Water Bed we’ve enjoyed, on Viking River Cruises
Isn't a water bed on a river cruise redundant?? Can't tell whether you're coming or going.
Super review
Currently using a regular split setup, does the queen setup allows you to have different tilt/settings on each side of the bed?
Good for you, Mike, I wish the two of you
many good nights' sleep! The bed listening in, at any time, active or not, freaks me out, though. Will it, uh, spill it, too? To the feds, for instance? Maybe that's just my deformation professionnelle talking.
Cheers
Marc