It sounds stupid (and it kinda is) but modern smart beds track all your vitals and give you a readout of your brainwaves with suggestions on how to improve your sleep.
I can totally understand how people desperate for sleep would buy one.
It’s mostly marketing fluff plus that thing where more data != more knowledge, but I do get it. Sleep deprivation is the worst.
Smart bed is fine. … Why does it need an internet connection at all, let alone a live one!?
Fuck these absolutely vile data harvesting trash companies that don’t even remember how to do things locally…
Because you want to sleep like on a cloud.
How else can you get reoccurring revenue through a subscription if you can’t remotely brick the device someone paid $2700 for?
It sounds stupid (and it kinda is) but modern smart beds track all your vitals and give you a readout of your brainwaves with suggestions on how to improve your sleep.
I can totally understand how people desperate for sleep would buy one.
It’s mostly marketing fluff plus that thing where more data != more knowledge, but I do get it. Sleep deprivation is the worst.
Literally none of that requires a live connection, or a connection at all if they add even an RPi5’s amount of compute to the bed.
Sure, you and I know that. Most people don’t.
I wasn’t talking about what’s necessary, but how it’s marketed. Most people don’t even know enough to have accounts on Lemmy.