Good concept and features. Having A hard time imagining paying the retail price of $250 for a pillow and seems to be for side sleepers only. I'll keep an eye on this team though - I'd love their vibrate to wake alarm
Hi @garrettdunham - Brandon from SleepSmart here - I'll be 100% honest and say that I completely agree. We did a lot of surveys and found that $129 range was about the right place to be, but that was for the higher end of "normal pillows". We then got wide eyed with the new-ish (not fully proven) Smart Pillow market and the price point there is around $250-300 with some traction. So for Kickstarter we made the (probably wrong) decision to start high. Our plan is to get that down and value engineer everything (currently in work) as long as it doesn't compromise quality. The second link has a PH exclusive for $89.
Re sleeping position - my co-creator on this wanted to focus on side sleepers as a focus niche - I'm personally a back sleeper, and it does work for back sleepers, but I'm going to make a tweak to it before mass production so it works for more sleepers. Tho back sleepers that use ultra thin (sub 1" tall) pillows - we won't be able to accommodate that with this product.
Any requests, desires, frustrations - I'm all ears!
@brandon_larson What do you use for the vibrate-to-wake feature? I'll be honest I love my pillow - but if there was an insert for that at a $20-$40 price point I might do it. Only reason I don't use @sleepcycle (LOVE that product) is because it required my phone in my room, which means I get distracted by Reddit, PH, et. al. and loose sleep on the front end.
Ended up paying $80 for a sunrise alarm (also love love love, but not as much as sleep cycle) but that can sometimes wake my wife, so alternate methods would be interesting.
Can you tell I put a lot of focus on sleep?
@garrettdunham - great idea - we've had a few others ask about this, and are considering something standalone, but want to focus on delivering the product first. Def put it on the list. The thing that makes our alarm very unique is that it's inside an air bladder and has some damping designed into the resonance member - so we generate a vibration wave through the entire bladder (and entire pillow) with nearly inaudible sound. Makes it fully silent, but highly effective. Beta users typically giggle when they felt it - it's pretty different.
I love this idea. I have 3 pillows. One big fluffy down, one tempurpedic, and another thin firm one, and I go back and forth between them usually bc I'll switch from sleeping on my back, to my side and want more comfortable support for my head and neck.
Not only does this pillow change support levels, but also has the vibrate alarm and sleep monitoring so it can wake you up when you're out of a REM cycle. Pretty awesome all around.
@kristofertm We hear that story so often - lots of pillows - lots of swapping.
Research shows that sleep disruption, also called sleep fragmentation, has a negative impact on recovery during sleep - mainly affecting cognitive rest!
From our beta testing, we've been able to reduce disruptions that are caused by pillow issues. Looking forward to getting this into the hands of more and more people and also learning how we can make better products to address as many sleep issues as possible.
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