"It is a $3,050 mattress cover filled with sensors to monitor heart rate and body temperature. For people who pay $199 to $399 for an annual subscription, the cover will automatically heat and cool itself throughout the night to keep the owner at a sleep-optimal temperature. The add-on base (about $2,000) raises the angle of the bed to make reading more comfortable or to help stop snoring. Eight Sleep gently vibrates its users awake;"
"Eight Sleep's features run on the AWS Cloud, so when one of Amazon Web Services' data centers went offline at about 3 a.m. ET, the sleep system went haywire. Eight Sleep generally warms when the user is drifting off, then gets cooler as they enter deeper sleep. Santiago Lisa, a software engineer in Pittsburgh, told me he woke up because his bed was stuck in deep-sleep frigidity. He tried to warm it up using the Eight Sleep app, but no dice-the app was down."
Eight Sleep sells a sensor-filled mattress cover and optional adjustable base that monitor heart rate and body temperature and automatically heat or cool the bed to maintain a sleep-optimal temperature. The system offers subscription-based features, meditations, and gentle vibration wake-ups. The devices rely on the AWS Cloud for core functions, including app controls and manual buttons. When an Amazon data center went offline around 3 a.m. ET, many users experienced stuck temperatures and locked positions, ranging from deep-cold beds to sides fixed at 110°F, and elevated head angles. The outage caused immediate sleep disruption but was resolved after a short period.
Read at The Atlantic
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