Bedscales - Effortless sleep and weight tracking

“It’s been four years of planning to come up with” this?

Forgive me for being cynical, but I guess none of the founders have been sick. Most hospital beds do this.

I was going to talk about the pain of changing batteries, but it’s wired. So now there’s a mess of wires under your bed. Ironic - the first line of the Kickstarter is “say goodbye to wires...” (

How does this effectively measure sleep quality? 1) There’s no real research that shows that quality or quantity of sleep can be quantified by movement (other than an ‘obviously awake’ threshold), and 2) how about with two (or more!) in the bed? How do you delineate? Can the device be used by multiple users? Do you lose half the fidelity?

There’s a big chunk of discussion about ambient noise in the room (whilst asleep?) CO2 levels (quick, name two ways to regulate CO2 in the home) - “with another device”.

They want to patent this? As mentioned, hospital beds are often equipped with both weight (for CVAs, bariatric and acute medical patients) and movement (fall risks and similar).

There’s mention made of “the science behind this”. But that’s it. Literally there’s these four words on “the science”.