Eight Sleep Pod 2 Pro Cover Review 2022: Temperature-Controlled Mattress Topper for Sweaty Sleepers

Utilizing the Eight Sleep app, I can set a selected schedule that modifications whereas I sleep through the Temperature Dial. The temperatures span from -10 (deemed extraordinarily chilly by the app) to +10 (extraordinarily sizzling). At my set bedtime, I program the mattress to really feel -5 (very chilly). It shifts to -3 (chilly) throughout my earliest hours of deep sleep, then to -2 (cool) throughout my previous couple of hours of sleep, and warms to +1 round 8:30 a.m. (the wake-up time I set). I don’t sleep with one other particular person, but when I did, I really like that they might set their very own schedule separate from mine.

Since I’ve the 8+ Professional membership (extra on that beneath) I’ve an extra characteristic referred to as Temperature Autopilot. The Autopilot takes my sleep patterns, biometrics, and room temperature into consideration to design a personalised schedule for me that adjusts over time. When my bed room grew hotter throughout the summer season, the app tweaked its temperatures. This add-on shouldn’t be a must have, however I respect figuring out that the characteristic modifications the Cowl’s temperature with out my oversight (helpful for nights when my window AC shuts off after just a few hours and the room warms).

Inside days of utilizing the Cowl, I finished waking within the night time to activate the fan or strip layers of garments off. And on chillier days, I didn’t must hunt for one more blanket as a result of my mattress was already toasty heat. 

Well being and Sleep Monitoring

I’m not an enormous fan of sporting health trackers as a result of I don’t get pleasure from having a bit of tech connected to my physique. Due to this fact, it’s nice that the Pod Professional Cowl retains an eye fixed on my biometrics with out requiring me to strap on something. The Eight Sleep app has a tab for its Sleep Report in addition to a Well being Report.

Inside the Sleep Report, I can take a look at graphs monitoring how a lot time I slept, time it took me to go to sleep, my wake-up time on common, and the way lengthy it takes me to get up. I also can view my sleep phases, sleeping coronary heart price, and what number of instances I tossed and turned. On one latest night time, for example, I spent 26% in REM sleep (the dreaming stage of sleep, essential for my mind and reminiscence), 58% in gentle sleep (once I might simply be woke up), and 16% in deep sleep (when it’s hardest to wake me). I turned seven instances and my heartbeats per minute ranged from 49 to 60. These stats are all collected and averaged out in charts per day, week, month, and yr, with information explaining why every metric is beneficial—a captivating perception into my sleep patterns.

Individually, the Well being Report tracks my heart-rate variability, sleeping coronary heart price, and sleeping respiratory price. If my HRV is decrease than traditional, the app asks me whether or not I’m feeling nicely or if I’m pushing myself too onerous and may want extra restoration time. The identical would happen for the opposite metrics ought to they fluctuate too far past what’s regular for me.

App Options (GentleRise, Sleep Content material)

As a substitute of a blaring alarm, the Pod Professional Cowl’s distinctive GentleRise alarm steadily vibrates the lively grid to wake you. This may be useful if I had a associate who wakes at a special time than me, as it will quietly urge solely my facet of the mattress to wake. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless a nice, light solution to wake as a substitute of my telephone’s alarm. It seems like a heat buzzing beneath me, and I can alter the depth and timing of the vibration within the app. Plus it actually works, and I think about could be a wonderful solution to wake if you happen to’re an particularly deep sleeper (or if you happen to sleep with earplugs, as I do).