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I initially thought this was a satire comment, on a satire product.
The fact it is real makes something feel fundamentally wrong with the world.
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https://www.eightsleep.com/product/pod-cover/
It's real. I was legitimately expecting to feel foolish for believing it.
There's one born every minute.
The cooling functions sounds great, without the supscription ai shit
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looked up the video:
- it was not a smart mattress
- was a very very expensive mattress
- the bed base is smart but he is not connecting it to anything
Cant find the update
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I have one of these and itâs one of the best purchases Iâve ever made. You donât have to believe me. In any case, it just runs off of a Linux computer. You can install OSS firmware on it.
I genuinely believe that itâs nice to have a temperature controlled bed that gives you analytics. Like I said, those are cool things
The issue is that itâs wrapped in classic big tech bullshit. A sheen of âcool designâ that looks lame to justify an outrageous price tag. That would not be the worst thing in the world if it wasnât coupled with a ton of tremendously anticonsumer practices
I simply cannot see how anyone could justify giving a company who will void your warranty if you do not pay them continually for years after already paying them thousands at the onset. That is no longer a warranty, it is an ongoing service contract and it implies you never had a warranty or support to begin with. You gave them 3 grand for a product that they do not support. I can somewhat understand tying advanced server sided features to a subscription model. though really you should get at least 1-2 years of service with such a high price tag and honestly if there is a SBC can it really not run locally? Of course it canât because looking deeper still they harvest your biometric data to sell it, of fucking course as if they werenât making enough off the insane price tag and subscription costs. As if they werenât checking off every big tech scumbag box already.
Also, so I can put Linux on it? So what? Fat lot of good that will do me when the pad starts leaking and needs a warranty replacement. It appears that if the pad fails and warranty is suspended thatâs a 5-700 dollar replacement, plus shipping and restrictions on 3rd party repair. Do I just pay them $17 a month for a subscription I donât use then as a service contract fee? Fuck that. You are a sucker who is being extorted by a company who disrespects you. They deserve to go out of business for their horrible practices.
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If you have an internet connected bed you deserve to sleep cold
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The cold, hard truth.
The cold, extra firm truth
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No warranty without a subscription should be illegal
In countries with less Freedom^TM^ it almost certainly is.
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Look at this dumb asshole that got the $2500-2600 (assuming queen mattress) plus $17/mo or 199/yr subscription mattress cover (eg not the actual fucking mattress or bed frame). What a broke piece of shit. Shouldâve gotten the $2850-2950 pod 6
After briefly googling what this actually is and the costs involved I have 0 sympathy for anyone involved. This is 100% tech bro bullshit. A temperature controlled bed sounds neat, I guess, and I am always a sucker for analytics, but this is possibly the most consumer hostile bullshit I have ever seen. It is all of the worst practices of modern tech wrapped into a device:
Grossly overpriced? Check
$350 upsell for physical controls? Check
Tons of vague language about health benefits that extrapolate valid claims onto their product, suggesting their product has benefits beyond something far cheaper (eg temperature does impact sleep but a $10 fan or $150 window unit would likely be fine because research is generally about environment and not about the surface of the bed)? Zero research about the device itself and zero funding for them to get this product investigated? Check
Subscription required? Not technically, core functionality still works, but you lose all the analytics, all the âsmart adjustmentsâ of temperature (it basically will just hold a constant temperature throughout the night whereas the subscription will adjust it gradually based on movement) and the biggest point is that your warranty is voided and you lose all support if you donât maintain a subscription
Also while I donât know this for sure I am betting there is 0 chance that you can fix this thing if it breaks.
This thing is so dumb and if you buy it I will judge you. You could buy a 2001 Honda accord LX with 141,000 miles. for that price. Thatâs a reliable car. I had one and drove it to 200k, sold it and Iâm sure it ran for a while longer. Maintain it well and youâll get 250-300k out of that bad boy. Meanwhile your dumb water bed cover will break and leak all over which is apparently so bad people all worry about all the posts theyve seen about leaking and the social media team has to come share blog post about how they make them less shitty now. sorry if you got the first batch, i guess. But itâs okay because as dumb redditors point out you can give them another $500 to extend the warranty to 5 years. Just remember to keep that subscription active or that warranty is void you stupid piece of shit.
you still need a fucking mattress! You know someone buying this isnât throwing it on a $400 ikea mattress. Theyâre going for the $3200 foam mattress. I am so mad about this
Edit: it also sells the biometric data its harvests about you to advertisers. Reddit posts show it uploads anywhere from 10-30gb of data per month, so itâs collecting quite a bit of data
Internet of Things is a scam
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Invest in orthopedic mattress and linen sheets instead of this crap.
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tbh until I read ur comment I just assumed this was a shitpost tweet making fun of the state of consumer electronics, not a real product
I bought a gleeb for my glibben needs but it has no interoperability with floob, so I bought an adaptor from Amazon with a weird brand name made of plastic... etc etc
Just buy a blanket...?
This product is more for people that run hot during the night. Especially for couples where one runs hot and the other runs cold during the night. And the cold one doesnât want to sleep with ac on all night. With this product the hot sleeper can just turn on the bed cooler on their side to cooldown. So a blanket wouldnât help in that situation. There are other brands that donât require internet or a subscription. And yes if you only buy this product to warm your mattress than you are stupid.
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Shit primarily on the people at the company making the joke product, and secondarily on the dumbass who bought one.
The individuals at the company are the problem. The internet tends to comment like they don't get this.
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Shit primarily on the people at the company making the joke product, and secondarily on the dumbass who bought one.
The individuals at the company are the problem. The internet tends to comment like they don't get this.
"the Internet" is commenting exactly that way...
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This product is more for people that run hot during the night. Especially for couples where one runs hot and the other runs cold during the night. And the cold one doesnât want to sleep with ac on all night. With this product the hot sleeper can just turn on the bed cooler on their side to cooldown. So a blanket wouldnât help in that situation. There are other brands that donât require internet or a subscription. And yes if you only buy this product to warm your mattress than you are stupid.
Than is not then
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While the IKEA mattress is fine for you or me, I really don't think this smart mattress is actually that expensive. I believe 5k and up is still relatively common for a high quality mattress.
When you annualise it over 10 years and between two people, if they're getting better sleep than they would have otherwise, who are we to judge how they spend their money? It's actually not that bad in terms of value. There are nights in the summer where I would gladly pay âŹ200 to not be sweating into the sheets.
Obviously, relying on a company for an app to control your bed is the idiotic part. But the price itself is not outrageous for me.
The best mattress I've owned was like $1500 and has lasted me 15 years now. Even with inflation, your figure is quite high
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That's not a smart bed, that's an internet-connected revenue-extractor.
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Invest in orthopedic mattress and linen sheets instead of this crap.
Maybe you don't live somewhere where the average summer temperatures are 30C or higher. I'm those places, this would be a great product; your alternatives are to swelter all night, or A/C your house. A self-cooling bed would be more energy efficient.
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Shit primarily on the people at the company making the joke product, and secondarily on the dumbass who bought one.
The individuals at the company are the problem. The internet tends to comment like they don't get this.
The individuals at the company are the problem. The internet tends to comment like they donât get this.
You make it sound like if you make and sell a thing, people are required to buy it. If you tried to sell me an AI bed that would not function without an active internet connection, I'd laugh at you.
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HOLD ON IS THIS NOT SATIRE!? I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY
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Shit primarily on the people at the company making the joke product, and secondarily on the dumbass who bought one.
The individuals at the company are the problem. The internet tends to comment like they don't get this.
The individuals at the company are the problem. The internet tends to comment like they don't get this.
Its actually the endless profit seeking that corporations must abide by in order to succeed that has led to shitty unnecessary tech and AI integration being in everything. The individuals working to make a living are only a symptom of that process. If they did not exist some other desperate soul would sell their labor instead. They might carry responsibility but they do not cause this issue.
