Eight Sleep’s new cooling hub is sufficiently small to cover beneath your mattress

Eight Sleep introduced the following model of its “intelligent sleep system” designed to manage the temperature of your mattress in response to tracked well being and sleep metrics like respiratory and coronary heart fee. The firm calls its new Pod 6 system its “most significant hardware launch to date,” and it’s centered round a redesigned cooling hub that’s now sufficiently small to cover beneath most beds. The new system is cheaper than Eight Sleep’s Pod 5 that launched in 2025, however continues to be not at all low cost.

The Pod 6 is now out there by way of Eight Sleep’s online store. The Standard model ranges in worth from $2,699 for a full-size mattress to $2,999 for king and California king sizes. But for the primary time Eight Sleep will provide a smaller Solo possibility for single sleepers with a canopy that matches half of any measurement mattress for $1,999. The Pod 6 system continues to be suitable with Eight Sleep’s elective equipment, like its $999 cooling pillow cowl, and there’s a compulsory subscription that ranges in worth from $199 to $399 per 12 months for 2 sleepers.

Eight Sleep claims the Pod 6’s management hub was “rebuilt from scratch, with the electrical, mechanical, and software systems re-engineered together,” leading to it being half the dimensions of earlier variations whereas delivering extra efficiency. The hub, which circulates temperature-controlled water by way of the mattress cowl to assist ship a greater night time’s sleep, is now 20 % sooner at making temperature changes.

The Pod 6’s well being and sleep monitoring capabilities have additionally been upgraded with further sensors. While final 12 months’s Pod 5 featured two biometric sensors built-in into the mattress cowl, the Pod 6 will increase that to 18 sensors. It can monitor well being metrics like coronary heart fee, coronary heart fee variability, respiratory fee, sleep phases, and detect loud night breathing for 2 people whether or not they’re sleeping subsequent to one another or on reverse sides of the mattress. The system can be sensible sufficient to differentiate between adults, youngsters, and pets. All of that collected knowledge is utilized by Eight Sleep’s AI-powered Autopilot function (which is what the subscription covers) to make computerized temperature changes all through the night time to keep up consolation with none handbook enter.