This affected me and my wife. We have an Eight Sleep mattress courtesy of my employer, which is probably the only way I'd have something that expensive. I've sl

This affected me and my wife. We have an Eight Sleep mattress courtesy of my employer, which is probably the only way I'd have something that expensive. I've slept on everything from Navy bunks to plain dirt to the nice memory foam mattress we have now. I'm not finicky. But while I'm not going to shill for Eight Sleep, I've gotta say that they're really nice. Well, normally, when they're working as expected. It has an automatic routine where our bed[0] is nicely cool when we climb in at bedtime. Then it warms up a little overnight when we're in deep sleep. Finally, it gets uncomfortably warm at alarm time, as a way to encourage you to want to get out of bed. It also uses sensors to detect how much you're moving around, pairs that with the room temperature, and uses that to, say, turn the temperature down if you're thrashing around on an especially warm night. Know how in San Francisco, the weather's almost always perfect except for those rare days when it's too warm to get comfy at night? Honestly, it's ideal for getting through those without having to crank the window air conditioner[1]. During the outage, my wife and I both woke up because we were too hot. Our bed wasn't overly warm, like if it were on the "it's time to wake up, get moving!" setting. It was just a normal "ugh, it's so hot in the room, I wish I could sleep!" kind of thing. I'm glad to hear they're upping their offline game to handle these situations more gracefully. I don't know if I'd recommend anyone go out and buy an Eight Sleep. They're pretty pricy and you can buy a lot of air conditioning for that money, if the cooling feature is the main reason you'd want it. However, if you have the opportunity to get one on someone else's budget[2], absolutely do it! It's really very pleasant to climb into a cool bed on a warm night, and presumably vice versa. They work as advertised. Except, you know, when the Internet's out. [0]Our settings are individualized, but similar. [1]For those outside SF, AC is unusual here. We almost never need it so most places don't have it. [2]Huh, wonder if you could use it to spend down an FSA?