Their price comparison chart also seems extremely misleading: I have a natural latex mattress and it was not $4000. It was $700.
...NOT!
Hard to lug around a mattress when you're moving house (if you're renting), though.
Are you in the US, or somewhere else?
Access to many apartments and houses in London is very restricted. You'd have to take your furniture apart to get it through the door and up the staircases.
That said, a mattress will fold and bend round corners easily, so I don't think this is a big issue if you're renting. (Getting rid of the landlord-provided mattress may be a bigger problem in my experience)
I usually dislike people how just insult other people's ideas, but in this case there is a genuine chance of people causing themselves serious damage. Does anyone know of any evidence of this actually helping people sleep better?
If a few years down the line this has revolutionised people's sleeping, I'll be all for one. If instead people have trapped nerves by sinking slightly into gaps, then I'll be glad I let someone else test it first!
From experience (broken leg), any compression on your body including limbs leads to a shitty night's sleep so I don't think I'd want to wedge bits of my body in gaps then lie on them.
My other half would also hate this.
The best night's sleep we've both found is on a bed which is pretty much like a piece of concrete with a sheet on it :)
A cot/bed with a poor fitting mattress can cause death by the infant rolling into a gap/crevice and suffocating. (Infants don't have the strength to lift their head or crawl out.) For various reasons, it is also relatively common for parents to sleep with the baby in their bed (despite the risk of crushing). This mattress has crevices all over it, so would seem to present a severe risk of suffocation to infants.
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edit: crevasse -> crevice
From one of these papers:
"At very least, we hope that the studies and data described in this paper, which show that co-sleeping at least in the form of roomsharing especially with an actively breast feeding mother saves lives, is a powerful reason why the simplistic, scientifically inaccurate and misleading statement 'never sleep with your baby' needs to be rescinded, wherever and whenever it is published."
Co-sleeping while breastfeeding actually reduces incidents of SIDS, and benefits both the infant and mother by allowing both to get more sleep. The biggest risk factor is if an adult co-sleeps while intoxicated, which is entirely preventable.
Also interesting to consider is that it won't fit all types of beds. As with a lattice bottom bed, slices could fall through, and with a box-spring bed the slices at the top and bottom of the mattress could simply slip over the edge.
That will definitely prevent the ends from falling off. Not sure how effective it will be on a slat base.
- like xkcd suggests, the only really important slit is for the arms.
- couldn't this be simulated by taking a regular mattress and simply cutting a slit in the right place?
- has anyone tried doing that?
One of those all-foam mattresses might work, though. Not sure.
http://txchnologist.com/post/33432483866/txchnical-improveme...
