When Orion asked if I wanted to test its $2,195 AI-enabled mattress pad, I agreed purely because I thought it would be funny to write about.
Orion is a cooling mattress pad that you can control using your phone, and it adjusts temperature as you sleep to minimize how often you wake up in the middle of the night.
Orion’s founder Harry Gestetner is only 26 years old, but he’s more experienced as an entrepreneur than his age might suggest: He sold his last company Fanfix, a creator monetization platform, for an estimated $65 million when he was 22 years old.
While he is no Bryan Johnson, it does sound like Gestetner is sipping the Kool-Aid a bit.
Once that’s done, you download the Orion phone app and work through its setup flow which is how the cooling system works.
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When Orion asked if I wanted to test its $2,195 AI-enabled mattress pad, I agreed purely because I thought it would be funny to write about.
The joke, as it turned out, was on me.
Orion is a cooling mattress pad that you can control using your phone, and it adjusts temperature as you sleep to minimize how often you wake up in the middle of the night. Sleeping on the pad feels like flipping your pillow to find “the cool side,” except that now your whole bed is the cool side of the pillow.
By default, the Orion will start cooling down around the time you go to bed, which you manually input.
Orion’s founder Harry Gestetner is only 26 years old, but he’s more experienced as an entrepreneur than his age might suggest: He sold his last company Fanfix, a creator monetization platform, for an estimated $65 million when he was 22 years old. The struggles he faced while building Fanfix inspired this new venture.
While he is no Bryan Johnson, it does sound like Gestetner is sipping the Kool-Aid a bit.
The product is trying to convince you something that you probably already know: You generally feel better after a good night’s sleep. Even Johnson, who has gone to such extremes as infusing himself with his son’s plasma, says that “Sleep is the world’s most powerful drug.”
Despite arriving in two intimidatingly large boxes, Orion was easy to set up.
Once that’s done, you download the Orion phone app and work through its setup flow which is how the cooling system works.
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