Boyd Sleep Air Beds

Boyd Sleep Air Beds

Boyd Sleep Air Beds: From Water to Air   Boyd Sleep, a manufacturer of waterbeds for 40 years, has made adjustable airbeds for 30 years, almost as long as Sleep Number. The SensAire brand by Boyd Sleep was rebranded and is now called Night Air.       ...
Boyd Sleep

Boyd Sleep

From Waterbeds to a Diversified Product Line   A Student’s Project In 1977, waterbeds were popular, and they were gaining market share at the expense of innerspring mattresses.  A college business student named Dennis “Denny” Boyd devised a business model for one...
Air-Pedic 700

Air-Pedic 700

  Air-Pedic 700 by Selectabed A Little Higher and Plusher The 11” high Air-Pedic 700 is the next Air-Pedic memory foam adjustable airbed above the 10” Air-Pedic 500. Where the two models differ is in the depth of the memory foam: 1 inch in the 500 and 2 inches in...
Air-Pedic 700

Air-Pedic 1200

Since mid-2018, the Air-Pedic 1200 mattress has been discontinued.   Air-Pedic 1200 by Selectabed The Ultra-Luxury Airbed At 13 inches high, the Air-Pedic 1200 is not the highest adjustable airbed by Air-Pedic (a brand of Selectabed), but it is billed as the most...
Air-Pedic 700

Air-Pedic 500

Air-Pedic 500 by Selectabed Firm, gel-infused memory foam mattress Of the current adjustable airbeds by Air-Pedic (a Selectabed brand), the Air-Pedic 500 is their entry level gel-infused memory foam design model. It is compared by Select-A-Bed to the p5 (now the 360...
Air-Pedic Adjustable Airbeds

Air-Pedic Adjustable Airbeds

  Air-Pedic Adjustable Airbeds Certified as assembled in Southern California using all made in the USA Foam and Covering* *PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BRAND SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH THE AIR-PEDIC BRAND MADE FROM A CANADIAN COMPANY THAT USED TO MAKE A COMPLETELY...
On the Air with Airbeds

On the Air with Airbeds

  Adjustable Airbeds for Bedrooms   In 1981, Comfortaire introduced the first adjustable airbed designed for use in home bedrooms. The founder of Comfortaire left the company to found Select Comfort, which introduced the Sleep Number beds, with numbered...
Side Sleeping – Part 3

Side Sleeping – Part 3

Is Side Sleeping the Best Position? This is Part 3. Click here for Part 1 or Part 2.   Beds for Side Sleepers. Each sleeping position has its own benefits and disadvantages. For side sleepers and the others, the bed and pillows can mitigate the disadvantages for...
Side Sleeping – Part 2

Side Sleeping – Part 2

Is Side Sleeping the Best Position? This is part 2 of Side Sleeping. Click here for Part 1 or Part 3 Medical Research Results. Many health and wellness writers have now been promoting side sleeping as more healthful than other positions. The obvious reason is...
Side Sleeping – Part 1

Side Sleeping – Part 1

Is Side Sleeping the Best Position? This is Part 1. Click here for Part 2 or Part 3 A Variety of Sleeping Positions “How do you sleep?” seems like a simple question at first – that is until you ask “What does ‘how’ mean?” It can mean: • “How well do you sleep?” • “How...
Sleep Number i7 Smart Bed

Sleep Number i7 Smart Bed

Sleep Number i7: The Smart Bed with Memory Foam Cleverly-designed technology to help you sleep better. Early in 2017, Sleep Number introduced its 360 Smart Beds series. Part of the smart bed trend, the beds in this series will automatically adjust the Sleep Number...
Sleep Number i10 Legacy

Sleep Number i10 Legacy

The i10 That Had Memory Foam   A New Version The i10 by Sleep Number has undergone a revision. It is not the same as the i10 listed a year ago, the one which is reviewed by Beds.org. The revised bed is 2” lower and no longer has memory foam. Legacy has been...
Tencel® Lyocell

Tencel® Lyocell

  The Third Generation Cellulosic Fiber   First Generation The first, best known, and most common cellulosic fiber is rayon viscose. Both natural and artificial, cellulosic fibers are manufactured fibers produced from a natural substance – cellulose....
MyPillow

MyPillow

How does the most heavily advertised pillow stack up?   The Ubiquitous Ad If you have been watching television – whether over the air, through cable, from a satellite, or on the Internet – whether news, weather, sports, local programming, or movies – chances are...
Lucid Mattresses

Lucid Mattresses

Lucid: About The Company   If you have shopped for memory foam mattresses or latex mattresses on Amazon, you probably have seen the brand name Lucid. Now the brand has a website of its own, but in early 2014, this brand was identified as Linenspa (mattress name)...