Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
The base offers foot warmer settings designed to draw blood flow away from the heart, helping you fall asleep more quickly. ActiveBreeze provides evenly distributed warmth, since the fans are located in the middle of the bed. I didn’t mind this, especially on cold nights. You can also use the remote control to adjust low, medium or high heating speeds, which the bed can achieve in just minutes. Depending on your programmed wake-up time, you also have the option of heating up the Tempur-ActiveBreeze 30 minutes earlier — which is nice, but it made leaving my warm, tangibly comfortable bed more difficult.
Number crusher
Temperature control is only one aspect of this smart bed; I’ve found that sleep tracking has the same effect. With smart beds, I usually wear my Apple Watch to sleep and compare data points. The Tempur-ActiveBreeze’s sleep-tracking capabilities are encyclopedic, and you can’t opt out of them—within a day of testing the bed, I started receiving emailed details of my sleep data, with suggested areas for improvement.
You can get a quick overview of the sleep milestones you’ve achieved with a pie chart that shows changes in breathing rate, heart rate variability, wakefulness, and whether you’ve met your targeted sleep goals. This is just an overview. In the Sleep tab within the app, the data is more comprehensive, detailing overview data points in graphs, charts, and numerical metrics. A lot of this data is duplicated across views, but I appreciated the variety of visuals that showed what I was doing well and what needed improvement. Over time, the app will provide daily, weekly, monthly and yearly details of your sleep data.
ScreenshotTempurPedic via Julia Forbes
ScreenshotTempurPedic via Julia Forbes
ScreenshotTempurPedic via Julia Forbes
My biggest concern is that despite all this data, my initial readings didn’t line up with what My Apple Watch Tracked, especially for deep and REM sleep. There can be up to a 40-minute difference between the data received from the two trackers. By day five, the Tempur-ActiveBreeze seemed to have better control over my sleep patterns, tracking data that was more in line with what the Apple Watch was reporting. Instead of radical ranges, it was more like a 10-minute fluctuation at most for REM, deep sleep, and actual sleep time.
The friend
As with many smart beds, most of the features are in the adjustable base rather than the mattress itself. The Tempur-ActiveBreeze bed and base are a package deal and only work together to allow sleepers to experience the temperature control feature.
When it comes to the mattress itself, it’s a classic Tempur-Pedic experience. The foam doesn’t fully relieve pressure, as I’ve experienced with other hard feels Hybrid mattresses like Wolf Memory Foam Premium Hybrid mattress or Dreamcloud. The Tempur-ActiveBreeze surface takes several minutes to adjust to your body shape, and although it provides deep contouring, it still isn’t as soft around pressure points as other beds I’ve tested. To be clear, it’s not uncomfortable, and it didn’t cause any aches or pains. But if you are very sensitive to pressure point relief, keep this in mind. The indentations left by the contouring didn’t stop me from moving, but they are more noticeable when you settle into a new sleeping position and feel the impression of where you’ve just moved.