here's a great example of why there's a growing split in the environmental community between consumerism and limiting consumption!

Ok, the shirts are kind of silly, but I'd be interested to hear of any study comparing the effect of the cooled mattress vs cooling the room. if it lets someone sleep in weather 10 degrees hotter without fans or airconditioning, it might make sense.

Right On, JS!

JS-- I couldn't phrase it better myself. I am constantly reminding myself of how new-found technology will only create more problems, how we need to revert back to simpler ways, and then I see this. A modern, environmentally-friendly convenience. All in all, I say it is a great alternative, and I think that picking your ecological battles is something to keep in mind. At the very least, it is certainly the lesser of two evils!

I like that. We really have serious conditioning problem at work, and big fight at bed time with wife over cool degree

Where can you buy this bed. Great stuff.

This is kinda cool actually, it'd be great for days where your outside in the hot weather

Is the air actually cooled at any point? If the fans are just pulling the air through the mattress, then they can't be cooling it.

"new-found technology will only create more problems, how we need to revert back to simpler ways"

Right, because we need to go back to simpler times like burning coal in each and every home for heat, gathering wood for wood-burning stoves, dumping our sewage in the street, and using 100-watt incandescent bulbs. Sounds like a recipe for environmental disaster to me.

Technology has allowed us to drastically increase the efficiency of the devices we use. Without the "problems" of new-found technology we would we burning far more coal for electricity than we do now. Please think about your opinions before adopting them. K thnx.

I'll continue to use my air conditioning, because I really doubt this thing will work. It really looks ineffective at doing anything except selling a product that makes some people feel better about the environment. Ya, whatever.

How do you ensure cool air is pulled in? If you're in a hot room, hot air will be pulled in. It's not really an air conditioner...

"Heywood" is correct - How would this cool you? If there's hot air in your room all it does is pull hot air down your body. You'd need some kind of an air-cooler at the head, and if that's the case eventually you're just cooling the room as the cool air vents down the bottom. I think something with embedded lines with cooled water is probably a better solution.

Imagine the news if someone invented a ceiling fan.

Idjits.
Moving air cools by transporting heat. The mattress under your body is about 98.6 deg. F. Even if the air is warmer than that at the inlet, the reduced pressure will cool it. The moving air passing your butt takes the heat away.

For even more effectiveness, put a block of ice by the inlet.

I think this is going in the right direction. It makes sense to reduce the amount of energy used for things that often people do not want to live without. Why should we air condition a whole house when really we just need the air around ourselves to be cooled? I personally don't use ac, I think it's rather unnecessary. But this kind of thinking will allow people who do to reduce energy/resource use.

Sleep in the basement - it's free.

Yeah, its not real A/C, BUT--
Here in Florida, There are often nights where the top half of your body (away from the mattress) is comfortable, while the part that touches the mattress is uncomfortably hot and sweaty. The mattress acts as an insulator, keeping your body heat trapped against you, same as a blanket. One solution is to crank the A/C down to 72 F. Of course, then you need a heavy blanket on top, to
keep the non-mattress side of your body from getting cold.

Simply keeping the mattress at ambient temperature is a great advance, IMO.

as someone who is currently having trouble breathing because of the pollen coming inside (and this is even with medication), a HEPA air filter and AC is sometimes the only way I can make it through the summer. As much as I love sleeping with an open window, I can only do that fall through early spring

If this can be adapted for the motor car seats, especially for the tropics, it will be a number one seller. as you may know, even airconditioned cars do little for the sweaty backs.

I agree with Doug about the mattress being uncomfortably hot and sweaty. I have trouble sleeping when I'm too warm. I don't want to crank the a/c to the preferred temperature because it would use too much energy and cost too much.

If this product works, then this could be a possible solution. I say bravo to inventions that meet a need and try to minimize energy usage.

Jerry,

Unfortunately you misunderstood my post, and ran wild with assumptions. Modern luxuries, like a certain gas-guzzling vehicle, or blasting the air-conditioning on a luke-warm day, fall beneath a different category than "dumping our sewage in the street." Once again, the dilemma, as JS put it wonderfully, is consumerism versus limiting consumption.

Apparently you also misread my ideas concerning the 'lesser of two evils,' or the fact that these issues can be very complex. I completely agree with you, but to a certain extent. Perhaps you should re-read posts, or inquire for further details, before you post an uninformed rebuttal. "K thnx."

I bought one and used it last night. It really works. I think the electricity saved will pay for it in about one summer. And, its much quieter than my air conditioner.

It doesn't come with English instructions, but it was still pretty easy to figure out. I just put my sheet and blanket right over it. The thin stuff we use in summer doesn't seem to imped the air flow,

well!
sleeping on such a this deb would be somthing dreamable .