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Cuddle Mattress

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Re: Cuddle Mattress

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Post by khuey »

damncabbage wrote: post #25
lucian1900 wrote: post #4

I've seen this idea before, and it does look like it would solve the problem nicely. Hard to lug around a mattress when you're moving house (if you're renting), though.

This comment confused me on first reading. In Australia, it's very much common that you bring your own bed (and other furniture) with you from place to place. (You can get furnished apartments, but they're much less common, at least in Sydney.) Are you in the US, or somewhere else?

Apartments in the US usually come with heavy appliances such as refrigerators and ovens but not furniture. Furnished apartments are also much less common here.

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Post by progrock »

meaty wrote: post #21
CJefferson wrote: post #6

While this is a really cute idea, beds are not something to joke about, and I'd really like to see some good evidence that long-term sleeping on this bed doesn't do any damage. 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 year…

Agreed. 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 :)

The best night's sleep we've both found is a bed each in different rooms.

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Post by jrockway »

I like how there's a new Kickstarter ripoff explicitly for projects that have no prototype and whose "founders" have no industry experience. Makes it easier to get in the right mindset for maximum enjoyment before clicking.

Their price comparison chart also seems extremely misleading: I have a natural latex mattress and it was not $4000. It was $700.

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Post by femto »

Have you looked into whether it is dangerous to have a newborn infant sleeping on this matress?

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

Re: Cuddle Mattress

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Post by timb »

jrockway wrote: post #36

I like how there's a new Kickstarter ripoff explicitly for projects that have no prototype and whose "founders" have no industry experience. Makes it easier to get in the right mindset for maximum enjoyment before clicking. Their price comparison chart also seems extremely misleading: I have a natural latex mattress and it was not $4000. It was $700.

indiegogo existed as a fundraising platform before kickstarter (but it was originally only for filmmakers).
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