One of the interesting crowdfunding projects I backed was called Luna. Now, if you search for Luna, you won’t find it anymore. The company, after their successful crowdfunding campaign changed its name to Eight as in Eight hours of sleep. One of the members of our partnership between my wife and I is a blanket hog. I won’t mention names, but I will mention that I often wake up without a blanket and cold. Well, I used to have that problem. The initial solution to the problem was to have two quilts on the bed at night. At least that way I got a blanket. But my wife often gets cold. We’ve tried electric blankets (they last about one winter season and then, well never work again). We’ve tried some different solutions overall.
None of them worked. Until Eight! Eight is a mattress cover that lets you do two things. The first is to warm your bed in the winter automatically. You can, quickly set the time the bed is warmed at night. Ours turns on around 7:45 pm. The image shared with this post is my sleep report from last night. I prefer the number was 8 hours, but 7 hours isn’t horrible. A score of 88 is nearly where you want to be! This is the iPhone version of the application. There is also an Android version. The beautify of this is you can have two sides of the bed, and two temperatures. My wife prefers a heated bed around the temperature of a solar corona. I prefer warm but not hot.
Setup is easy, and the software helps. You simply put the cover on the bed and plug it in. You then connect to the dongle via wifi. Each of you can connect to the system and set the temperature for your side of the bed. You also receive a separate sleep report. As I said the image shared is of my sleep report. Now my wife runs her side of the bed hot and for a full eight hours every night. I heat the bed during the winter and only for about 5 hours. That lets me fall asleep in a warm bed, and then when I wake up, it’s cold, and I have to get out of bed right away! The quilted top of the Eight-bed cover is comfortable. They also sell a mattress called the Pod. It does look interesting but, we like our bed.
Overall I give Eight Sleep a 9 out of 10!
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I track my sleep regularly as I need to sleep better.
I have started in the last few months. I sometimes get frustrated when I cannot move the number out of 100! I average 81 to 91 would like to move up into the 95 range.
better living through advanced technology!
That is the dream, so far, not so much!
don’t get me started- I cried myself to sleep from 2000 to 2005…
Sorry about that, didn’t mean to bring up bad memories.
I just feel like technology isn’t anywhere near where it should be. I will continue to be bitter until I get a moonbase
My fear of a moonbase has to do with the creation of the star child
unless China builds one, it isn’t going to happen
I suspect, once someone figures out how to mine the minerals on the moon, you will see an international station on the moon, like in the movie 2001~
yeah, only a few decades late #bitter
also, you need a station to mine from before you can start mining
#stationcomesfirst
I agree, in 1969 my dad and I spent the month of August (we watched the lunar landing live) debating the ability of Nasa to create a lunar mission station. We both agreed it was 20 years off.
Of course, that was 50 years ago.
On your other statement, actually, there was an interesting publication in one of the Astronomy journals I will see if I can find it. Mining on the moon using robots was the concept.
twenty years sounds about right for earliest feasibility. we’ve definitely had the capability for decades and have not made even a token effort
The day somebody realizes you can mine the green cheese of the moon and sell it, is the day before there will be a lunar base.
If, some realizes there is gold on the moon or uranium, there will be moon bases.
or they’ll invest in something with a short term gain
The lust for gold drew people to Alaska, who were not prepared for what that actually meant.
The moon wouldn’t be impossible if we found a lot of gold there…
it is possible and even feasible now, but folks would rather make a fast buck then invest in the future
but gold might make them think twice
Now you are getting into a very interesting space in the business and government world.
1. today is the future of five years ago. Investments made five years ago were focused on a better future, which is now.
2. Companies are still moving towards a new future 5-10 years out. They continue to invest in tomorrow.
funny, most of the companies I’m aware of are myopically obsessed with quarterly growth
That is the business trap many companies fall into. When you have an ROI of 3 months your projects have to be tiny.
exactly, and how far can you push the envelope in a quarter?
That requires a commitment to excellence! That requires a different view of the organization but can still be done quarter after quarter.
it can possibly be done that way, but that’s not a good way to go about it
That model was actually invented by IBM many years ago. They are one of four companies in the original fortune 500 that still exist.
The model works.
The reality of today is the drive for profits. But profits are fleeting if that is all you chase.
you corner the market by innovation, not cutting corners…
4/3/2019 Verizon released 5g in Minneapolis and Chicago for mobile users. That represents the first 5g in the world. Verizon beat South Korea by two days.
641 megabytes to a Motorola handset right by where the Final Four is this weekend.
Personally, I don’t think it is innovate or muddle along anymore. I think it is now innovate, or close your doors.
what was the last innovative thing Microsoft did? I can think of plenty of companies who are just rehashing the same old shit year after year and just raising the prices…
I suspect that innovation isn’t easy but for MSFT, the newest version of Visual Studio has ties to a number of interesting overall systems.
Pre-built functions, git-hub and a full python environment.
Sometimes innovation isn’t visible.
I have been tracking my sleep and I am lacking! ?
I know the frustration, I keep trying though!
It sounds interesting because I’m always cold. I have no problem with the blanket because my partner is always hot. ?
It really seems to help my wife. My next goal is to move my number from the 80’s to the 90’s ( as far as my sleep score).
I will have to test it and decide whether to buy it or not
That is a good way to approach buying something!
Interesting articles and reviews, especially when imagining how we feel cold during sleep. I myself rarely experience it unless I am sick or stay at a tourist place that’s too cold.
Track sleep? Not at all, considering that I have a different reality about sleeping all this time.
I understand that Albert. I worry that my sleep isn’t good right now. So I am trying other ways to move forward.
I suspect you are much further along the path than I am my friend.
The only routine that I do regularly just before going to sleep is an affirmation. No matter how much time I have to sleep, I will tell my subconscious that I will sleep well and deep for xx hours/minutes and will wake up in a healthy, fit and energetic state.
Nobody knows who has gone further in the path, O soul brother.
That we know only our own path, is so true.
I need to focus on affirmations. Thanks for the tip, going to try that tonight!
Ha, we often don’t even know the extent of our journey in the path, as well as I am.
If you do such an affirmation, make sure your subconscious accepts your message. That’s all.
That (getting the sub of me to understand and accept) has been my struggle with affirmations.
Try to do it when you are very sleepy because that’s when our brain waves are in alpha.
I will right before I slip into sleep tonight…
Good luck, great warrior…
Sounds great! I need this too, my husband says I usually steal the covers lol.
This nicely warms the bed, so blankets are not as needed.
Oh, I like the sound of this, and something I think I need in my life!
I love our Eight! Oh and it keeps the bed toasty in the winter…