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.
e: plus, you can’t expect sleep-deprived people to make good decisions.
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.
e: plus, you can’t expect sleep-deprived people to make good decisions.
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.