Close your eyes, take a moment and just imagine the engineering culture at Eight Sleep. I'd almost rather be homeless than work there.
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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What's wrong with just a regular mattress? Why does it have to be connected to the internet? :(
It adjusts temperature (can heat OR cool and in some versions it can heat one side and cool the other) and I think the even more expensive version can morph a bit to your liking, and according to them, reduce snoring.
What they don't mention is that regardless of whether you get the 3600 euro option or the 5800 euro option, you still have to SUPPLY YOUR OWN MATTRESS. It's also a subscription service.
If you didn't hate it enough, it's also advertised as being "powered by AI". Which almost certainly is just some temperature adjustment algorithm, maybe even a deterministic one.
Here I am like a plebe using a hot water bottle when cold and less bedsheets when hot. If only I knew there was a technical solution for a problem that's already been solved hundreds of times over!
I just wait till it gets hot when cold because I'm a furnace. Mostly it's hot though. That problem hasn't been solved. Lack of bedsheets doesn't cool things down.
It adjusts temperature (can heat OR cool and in some versions it can heat one side and cool the other) and I think the even more expensive version can morph a bit to your liking, and according to them, reduce snoring.
You don't need the internet to do those things though
That's definitely true, I just explained why the mattress has tech inside it in the first place. Or the mattress cover, really.
It'd easily be accomplished with a couple of buttons too.
Not that it isn’t wildly ridiculous and stupid to have an internet connected bed, but couldn’t you just unplug it if it’s overheating?
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I’ve heard these beds are actually quite effective at helping you sleep and then wake up more naturally.
But they have wrapped entirely local events (it’s all just timers, folks) behind a cloud-exclusive subscription and the product is useless on a sunny day like we had yesterday.
They’re enormously expensive and the subscription serves no useful purpose other than to line the pockets of the investors.
I have a strict rule of no cloud dependency in my house. Otherwise, I’d be interested - if the price was remotely reasonable.
You can flash your own firmware if you want.
"sorry honey just a bit longer, I'm in the process of flashing the bed, we can go to bed soon...god damn sig faults!"
Huh? It’s the exact same thing as any other electronic in any home assistant smart house. Put firmware on it that you control. Why would you need to do anything about it at night.
Because that’s when you have the time to do the maintenance.
Why would you need to do maintenance at all?
You don’t fluff your pillows or make your bed or wash the linens? Bed stuff needs daily maintenance; hopefully flashing the firmware on your smart pillow wouldn’t be daily, but you want to keep the bed bugs away, Shirley?
I don't do the first two, and I wash them weekly. My home assistant stuff never needs maintenance, so no I'd wager that if I set it up locally it would work fine if the software was stable. But you said that's when you'd do maintenance, at bedtime, which is also not when you'd be making the bed or fluffing the pillows or washing the sheets.
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