Sleep coaching: Eight Sleep’s AI-engine calculates your sleep fitness score and sleep patterns, provides recommended Pod settings and allows you to compare with your friends and peers.Biometric tracking: The Pod seamlessly monitors over a dozen physiological and environmental data points such as: time slept, time to fall asleep, time of wake up, respiratory rate, heart rate, heart rate variability, temperature in bed, sleep breaks, light sleep, deep sleep and REM sleep.The Pod now allows for constant monitoring of HRV, alongside other biometrics like Resting Heart Rate, Respiratory Rate, Sleep Stages, and Sleep Time. HRV variations can help users track their health and anticipate illness or fatigue if they see significant drops in this metric.Set Wake Up temperature experiences to repeat on any day of the week to maintain consistency for a positive morning start.
You can set the specific temperature you want your thermo alarm to wake you up at as part of your Smart Temp profile to ensure a more cohesive temperature flow from bedtime until morning.
Dynamic temperature: The Pod allows for you to control the full range of temperature on either side of the Pod to enjoy a cooler environment for deeper, longer and uninterrupted sleep.Here are the capabilities of the mattress so far according to their website: The technology embedded is game-changing and will make you rethink sleep. Once everything is setup it looks just like a normal mattress. Before installation make sure you have about 2 gallons of distilled water and some hydrogen peroxide to add to the tank to keep the lines clean. You basically just zip the grid system to the mattress and plug in the hose to the water pump system. The mattress is roll packed and the smart technology comes in a separate smaller box. When you order your sleep system it will come shipped in a box like this.
Here’s an overview of how it works, how to set it up and most importantly how it feels.
Before you open the box though, make sure you download the Eight Sleep app, it will also walk you through installation. Here’s a video of me unboxing and setting up the Eight Pod 3 Max.
This is a significant upgrade over the Pod 2 Pro in that it just feels better due to the sensors being smaller and more foam padding above the plastic membrane. The Eight Sleep Pod 3 is a six layer mattress along with the Pod 3 Pro cover.
In 2022 I had a chance to review the Eight Sleep Pod 3 Max.