Customer Reviews

Wamsutta Even Temperature Standard Pillow

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I don't know how anyone could think that the outlast material isn't working. (..of course it has been significantly tested and proven that it works.) At first its cool. After about 5 minutes (depending on the person) outlast starts keeping an even temp..

Now that even temp. may not be as cool as you want - but it never gets much warmer than you are UNLIKE most every other pillow (..even buckwheat pillows which become hotter because of the fabric encasing the buckwheat).

The negatives are however:

1. The outlast material needs to be pretty close to your body to work - and it DOES have a distinctive texture that is a broad weave box pattern and is "stiff" (..though after a few washings it becomes considerably softer). You might not like this textural feeling.

2. Other than the outlast, the pillow is nothing special. The support is poor like most pillows, the interesting thing here though is that you can remove the stuffing - and fill it with a material you find acceptable (..if you don't like the standard poly fill), but you will need to do some minor sewing on the seam you opened to remove and replace the filling.

This is a good, if somewhat pricey regular pillow. Expect nothing else and you'll likely be fairly happy. The 'temperature regulation' claims are just that, claims. Any temp regulation experienced is placebo factor. My rating is based upon the mfgr. claims.

I was skeptical, so when I received my Wamsutta pillow I decided to put it to the test. I actually rigged up a grid of temperature sensor probes, and built a custom PCI board for my computer, to take temperature readings every 10 seconds while I was sleeping on this pillow. I found that across all the sensors (512 of them), the temperature difference was only 0.000476 degrees (F). Amazing! This week, I am fortunate enough to have the flu, so my head is getting very, very sweaty at night. I will take another set of readings during this feverous state, and post my results in another review. I think my Wamsutta is going to do a great job keeping my big sweaty fever head under control!

How could anyone *not* want this pillow?! It's so amazing! Don't you just hate it when one part of your pillow is a different temperature than another part of you pillow? I HATE THAT! I mean, c`mon people, a single temperature pillow is far superior to a multi-temperature pillow, right? YEAH! This is what I have to say to all of you multi-temperature pillow lovers out there: HISS !!! HISS !!! HISS !!! The Electric Eel has scorned you!