While the traditional solution for insomnia is medication, innovative designs have made the new Sleep Number x12 a unique and powerful solution. Although many are familiar with smart phones, smart beds are just now beginning to arrive on the scene in order to provide increased restful sleep and information tracking.
This bed boasts a variety of technological features that make it years ahead of the competition in solving insomnia by monitoring the user's sleep patterns and sending that data to a smartphone application called SleepIQ. Through this data, the user and the mattress itself can correct potentially negative problems through means such as bed elevation and mattress firmness. Because this bed monitors a variety of different factors including heart rate, breathing rate, as well as time spent in and out of bed or tossing and turning, it can create a graph and provide valuable information on the progression of sleep.
How Does it Work?
The new Sleep Number x12 has a variety of features available that can drastically improve sleeping habits and increase the ability for restful sleep, however, how exactly does it work? For data tracking, this bed has a numerous amount of sensors located in all areas of the bed. These sensors are able to track a large range of activities in the user such as heart rate, breathing rate and movement. For example, if at any point during the night the user’s heart rate or breathing rate increases above a specific threshold, all of the information will be logged in a graph for future reference in order to help correct this problem. Additionally, this bed tracks movement and organizes it into three categories: restful sleep, restless sleep and out of bed. By tracking these three simple categories over time, one is able to figure out what the best bed setup is for increasing the restful sleep to restless sleep/out of bed ratio.
Once one has a comprehensive understanding of their sleep patterns, they have the ability to use a variety of different features in order to provide insomnia relief and help restore restful sleeping patterns. One of these features is elevation; this bed is highly customizable and can provide highly accurate foot- and head-rest elevation settings to find the best option for one’s needs. Additionally, mattress pressure is adjustable to the same extent, giving one the ability to try different settings in order to maximize restful sleep.
There are a variety of other features that make this bed so unique. One of the most interesting of these is the massage setting, where the bed massages the user for a designated amount of time. This massage function has a variety of different settings and is highly customizable. Voice functionality is also available in this model, by simply stating a command such as “sleep number softer” the mattress will quickly follow. Additionally, this model features undercarriage lights that can sense when one gets out of bed in order to illuminate the ground. One of the most interesting features, however, is a partner snore button, which elevates the headrest of one’s partner in order to reduce snoring.
The Benefits of the Sleep Number X12
While this model is fully functional, it has not been released to the public; however, the expected release date is in late 2014. Because of the intuitive and self-correcting nature of this bed, it has been shown to have powerful effects on a variety of sleep conditions that result from a poor sleeping situation. The most prevalent of these conditions is insomnia. While this bed may not be a complete treatment for insomnia, as there are a variety of factors that can contribute, it can certainly help on achieve more restful sleep on any given night, which can drastically reduce the problems resulting from the condition.
The average size model of the Sleep Number X12 is expected to be available for £5000 directly after release for the queen size bed; however, many suspect that in time the technology inherent in this bed may be available for less than £1000. Because of this temporarily high price, it may not be an option for everyone. However, everyone certainly has something to gain from using this bed.
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