STUFF OF DREAMS

Eight Sleep's Pod 3 Cover is the temperature-regulating mattress topper promising to improve your sleep, boost energy and seamlessly fit onto any mattress. Putting his body on the line, MF's editor Isaac Williams conducted months of gruelling sleep testing to verify those claims

First, a disclaimer: I am not a qualified sleep specialist. But what I lack in certification, I make up for in experience: a quick Google reveals that I’ve spent roughly 10,950 nights (or 76,650 hours) in the Land of Nod. Granted, I wasn’t conscious for any of that time, but as someone incapable of functioning after a restless night, if Eight Sleep’s Pod 3 didn’t make a difference, my deep-purple eye bags and general irritability would know about it.

Out the box 

While this particular product is a ‘mere’ mattress topper (Eight Sleep’s range also includes entire mattresses), this isn’t the sort of thing you can pick up for twenty quid in Wilko. For a start, it costs about the same amount as an all-inclusive trip to the Mediterranean – £2,245, to be precise – but in terms of sheer set-up and size, it really is something else.

On delivery, you’ll have a few medium-sized boxes to contend with. One contains the Cover itself, and the other two contain the all-black ‘Hub’ – about the size of a desktop computer – plus various accompanying wires and attachments. Confused? So was I. There’s a fair amount to get your head around, but Eight Sleep has done its bit to make the unpacking and set-up process as easy as possible. Download the Eight Sleep app, enter your unique verification code, then watch the intro video – all will become clear.