Smart sleep is worth the cost

A amended night’s sleep, each night, and you don’t person to bash thing to marque it happen. Sounds similar the, ahem, dream, right? Also sounds similar a enactment you mightiness perceive from immoderate infomercial salesman astatine 4 successful the greeting erstwhile you can’t slumber and are consenting to effort anything. Turns out, the committedness is real. It’s conscionable really, really, truly expensive.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Victoria Song tells america astir her adventures successful slumber gadgets. We speech for a portion astir the Eight Sleep Pod 4 Ultra, a mattress pad that costs $4,700 and requires a subscription. And mightiness conscionable beryllium worthy it, if a amended night’s slumber is worthy it to you. We besides speech astir the Oura Ring 4, the full sleepmaxxing trend, the Ozlo Sleepbuds, and different ways you tin usage tech to amended your shut-eye. Most of it doesn’t number 5 grand, we promise.

After that, The Verge’s Allison Johnson comes connected the amusement to marque the lawsuit for quality DJs. After spending immoderate clip with Spotify’s AI DJ, she discovered that a near-infinite playlist of songs she loves, curated by a near-human DJ that knows her name, is inactive not what she’s looking for. We speech astir why, and what it says astir however we should beryllium mixing the quality and the artificial successful our day-to-day lives.

Finally, we reply a question connected the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11, oregon email vergecast@theverge.com!) astir Samsung’s Frame TV. Nilay Patel takes america done the pros and cons of this unusual surface and its galore imitators, and we speech astir what to bash erstwhile you consciousness similar you request a TV but possibly you don’t peculiarly privation one.

For much connected everything discussed successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with slumber gadgets:

And connected Spotify’s AI DJ:

And connected the Frame TV: