Sex & Relationships

This smart blanket could encourage a better relationship and a better sleep

Finally, an answer to the age-old debate: blanket on or off?
Clime control bed

This Smartduvet is so smart, it could save your relationship.

Besides going on holiday and moving house, sharing a bed with your partner can be a make or break setup for some.

I’m not just talking about trying to decide what colour your bedspread should be. When it comes to turning out the light and actually sleeping next to your partner, it can be tough.

How could they really want the blankets off when it’s only 20 degrees?

You’re hot, they’re cold, and just when you think you have it all sorted out, you’re chilly, and they’re too warm. Now you’re frustrated to sleep – and it’s an argument you’ll have to have yet again tomorrow night.

This duvet could be the answer to the age-old problem of couples all over the world, and we are very excited -oh, and it’s a bed that will make itself.

Really.

The new Smartduvet Breeze is the world’s first ‘dual-zone climate controlled self-making bed,’ the creators explain on their website.

‘The Breeze doesn’t replace your existing bed or bedding, it simply makes them better,’ the creators explain on their website.’

‘In addition to making the bed for you, the Breeze allows you to set your preferred temperature individually for each side of the bed.’

The blanket attaches to a small ‘control box’, which makes the bed by filling the SmartDuvet with air. As the blanket unfurls and expands, the bed is ‘made’.

The relationship saving element of this invention, the climate control, can be utilised through an app which you can install onto your phone or smart device.

Once an action is selected through the app, the blanket is heated or cooled respectively, as warm or cool air is blown into the Duvet from the same control box that makes the bed.

The blanket is not yet available commercially, but its Indiegogo page has reached more than 500 times its fundraising goal.

It’s thought at this time the product could be available as early as September this year.

Just in time for spring weather changes!

While this is one relationship saving invention that is long over due… there are still a load of common arguments that a relationship can suffer from.

Researchers at the Gottman Relationship Institute have identified five of the most common, destructive patterns in arguments and how to deal with them which you can read about here.

And if you’re ever stuck – a bed that makes itself is a pretty good, ‘I’m sorry’ gift – not that you need one, because you were totally right anyway.

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