Smart sleep is worth the cost

A amended night’s sleep, each night, and you don’t person to do thing to make it happen. Sounds for illustration the, ahem, dream, right? Also sounds for illustration a statement you mightiness perceive from immoderate infomercial salesman astatine 4 successful the greeting erstwhile you can’t slumber and are consenting to effort anything. Turns out, the committedness is real. It’s conscionable really, really, really expensive.

On this section of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Victoria Song tells america astir her adventures successful slumber gadgets. We talk for a while astir the Eight Sleep Pod 4 Ultra, a mattress pad that costs $4,700 and requires a subscription. And mightiness conscionable beryllium worthy it, if a amended night’s slumber is worthy it to you. We besides talk astir the Oura Ring 4, the full sleepmaxxing trend, the Ozlo Sleepbuds, and different ways you tin usage tech to amended your shut-eye. Most of it doesn’t count 5 grand, we promise.

After that, The Verge’s Allison Johnson comes connected the show to make the lawsuit for quality DJs. After spending immoderate clip pinch Spotify’s AI DJ, she discovered that a near-infinite playlist of songs she loves, curated by a near-human DJ that knows her name, is still not what she’s looking for. We talk astir why, and what it says astir really we should beryllium mixing the quality and the artificial successful our day-to-day lives.

Finally, we reply a mobility connected the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11, aliases email [email protected]!) astir Samsung’s Frame TV. Nilay Patel takes america done the pros and cons of this overseas surface and its galore imitators, and we talk astir what to do erstwhile you consciousness for illustration you request a TV but possibly you don’t peculiarly want one.

For much connected everything discussed successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening pinch slumber gadgets:

And connected Spotify’s AI DJ:

And connected the Frame TV: