Eight Sleep adds a pricey blanket and speakers to its Pod 5 sleep system

The afloat Pod 5 Ultra setup starts from $6,099.

Eight Sleep is launching the Pod 5, the 5th procreation of its costly astute sleeping system. It packs 2 main upgrades: a temperature-controlled broad and speakers that tin play “soothing soundscapes.”

The Pod 5 builds connected apical of Eight Sleep’s existing tech, shipping with the aforesaid somesthesia controlled mattress screen and height-adjustable basal that Eight Sleep says helps to trim snoring. The caller broad complements the screen by syncing up with it, delivering the aforesaid water-powered cooling and warming scope of 55 to 110 Fahrenheit, but present from each astir you. Just similar the existing cover, you tin acceptable antithetic temperatures connected each broadside of the furniture to debar midnight squabbles.

The different large summation is simply a acceptable of surround-sound speakers integrated into the updated base. Eight Sleep has worked with neuroscientist and podcaster Andrew Huberman connected a acceptable of Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) guided meditations “for achieving heavy relaxation and restorative states.” There’s besides a enactment of achromatic sound and different calming sounds, which tin beryllium acceptable to crook disconnected erstwhile you autumn asleep, oregon support playing each nighttime if you prefer.

Eight Sleep is besides improving the Pod’s wellness tracking with Health Check, a caller study successful the Eight Sleep app. It monitors users’ bosom complaint and breathing during sleep, and “AI-powered algorithms” volition emblem immoderate issues successful the morning.

My workfellow Victoria Song tested retired Eight Sleep’s Pod 4 Ultra past twelvemonth and seemingly had the champion slumber of her life. That would beryllium great, if it didn’t travel astatine specified a precocious price: the Pod 5 starts astatine $2,849 for a afloat size Core exemplary that lone includes the mattress screen and a hub to powerfulness it. The terms jumps to $4,099 to adhd connected the blanket, and $6,099 for the adjustable basal and speakers, and there’s a mandatory subscription too, which starts astatine $199 per year.