Technology Blows

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Is the world ready for a mattress that snaps shut like a Venus fly trap whenever Amazon AWS is down? Jeff Bonhag and I decide!

- The Bourbons: France's sleepiest monarchs
- What kind of animal Peter Thiel sleeps inside
- The $5000 AI-powered bed that saved DOGE, and also sometimes pisses itself

References:

  • https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140416-chimpanzees-trees-sleep-beds-animals-science/
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc7239
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/EightSleep/s/x1GIkFiHgl
  • https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/
  • https://www.404media.co/the-aws-outage-bricked-peoples-2-700-smartbeds/
  • https://nymag.com/strategist/article/eight-sleep-pod-4-review.html
  • https://www.eightsleep.com/science/
  • https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/EightSleep/s/0HKiHcCUDj
  • https://www.uniladtech.com/news/tech-news/elon-musks-doge-sleep-pods-513132-20250205
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/EightSleep/s/3gM13Pw8Wo
  • https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legends-n-leaders/id1696212935?i=1000708827712
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Technology BlowsBy Dan Slimmon