Chill out your chill space with these bedroom gadgets and make your sleep sanctuary into a lab of the sleepy kind. Aromatherapy diffusers, air-purifiers, calming sound-generators, personal smart thermostats and more, these little creations can create a chill vibe for your chill space.
Finish it off with a smart climate control system that lets you control all manner of smart bedroom features, including lights, blinds, temperature and more, using your smartphone or voice assistant.
LED Under Bed Lights with Motion Sensor
And nobody wants to wake up family and neighbours by suddenly turning on their bedside light, so these lights switch on automatically when you start to move a little, and go out automatically once you stop moving.
Several can work with your smartphone and are controlled by Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant voice assistants for your voice control or govee home app for the settings and schedule controls, including adjustable timers.
Weighted Blanket
To engage in deep pressure stimulation for relaxation, try a weighted blanket, with one that weighs 10 per cent of your bodyweight being best.
Luxome offers various weighted blanket sizes like twin, full/queen or king, to accommodate the sleepers of almost any dimension. Furthermore, the blankets can also be washed in the machine so that users keep cool.
And Saatva’s organic cotton velvet weighted blanket is cut to a minimal ‘weighted throw’ aesthetic, with a deep pile polished up to pass for a regular throw and available in earthy tones that will complement a wide range of bedspreads.
Sound Machine
A sound machine offers ambient noise to cover up noise in an otherwise noisy environment, or cognitively distract someone by tuning out negative thoughts. Many have white and brown-noise settings as well as natural sounds such as waves washing up onto shore, birds chirping, or other ambient sounds.
But at bedtime, you can deny your partner your cell phone number as long as you still have a smartphones app, which provided similar features to the dedicated devices, although often with fewer amenities and a greater risk that your turning them on or changing the volume would wake up your partner. Less appealing to anyone who values a private life, all the devices had long cords that made plugging in easy.
It has a clear, intuitive user interface, clearly labelled buttons, 24 clearly numbered and labelled tracks that don’t sound compressed even at the highest volume, a subtle night light and three lullabies completely free of vocal affirmations such as ‘Shhh, shhh, I love you’. It is called the Dreamegg D1.
Temperature-Regulating Mattress Pad
One of the fancier mattress pads, this Bluetooth running-cooling-heating mattress pad works on most sizes of bed and includes fans that pump warm or cool air through one of the fabric layer’s antibacterial cooling fabric coated with capsules that absorb the body’s heat when temps soar and then give it out when temperatures fall.
Mini-review: this topper was relaxed and cooler sleeping, says GH textiles pros Summer nights: this plush and waterproof topper is soft to the touch, yet will keep you protected from the accidents that happen in bed!
Sleep Mask with Bluetooth Headphones
Cool down your bedroom with this incredible gadget. The lightweight headband synchronises with an app that plays meditations, hypnotic stories and soundscapes to prepare you for a good night’s sleep when you’ve had a hectic day.
Flat-lying thin headphones mean this is great for side sleepers, and the simple tap controls avoid the annoying problem of drifting back to sleep and misfiring the playback. It also cleverly blocks light, allowing comfortable adjustment and convenient washing away your snores; so swap this sleep mask for your snoring pillow!
Humidifier
Luckily, bedroom accessories like nightstands with built-in fridges and air purifiers will create a cozy atmosphere to wind down in and prepare for bed – feeling more relaxed and refreshed, ready to face a new day, is why you want your family to have a bedroom upgrade.
They increase the amount of moisture in the air for easier breathing and help keep skin moisturised. Some models such as HoMedics Top Fill Cool Mist Ultrasonic Humidifier come with coloured lights that change to help you make your bedroom a relaxing place, tanks that are easy to clean and a feature to automatically shut off once the water is depleted, helping you save money on electric costs.
But one of our favourites is the Molekule Air Mini +, shown on the right, which uses PECO tech to removevolatile organic compounds (VOC), in addition to having true HEPA 99.7% particle-capture efficiency. Also, it has a stylish slim profile, so you can perch it on your bedside table.
Massage Pillow
Your bedroom should be your haven; a space you retreat to for relaxation and expression. Equipping it with the right tools can make it exactly that: a haven of relaxation.
And if you need extra help falling asleep, this pillow has nodules to massage your back or neck, and heat and vibration settings will relax any tense muscles, and loosen stiff joints. Plus, you can simply operate it via voice control.
