BedJet provides a lot of collateral to describe the device, with the official description being that it is a “cooling, warming climate comfort system for beds.” That’s a bit vague: Basically it is a large blower that sits under your bed and pushes air up and through a flexible duct, to a nozzle that is positioned to direct that air between your mattress and your top sheet. The temperature of this air and the speed of air flow is adjustable, so you can heat up on cold nights or cool down in the summer. You can think of it as a giant hair dryer that lives under your bed.
Installing and using the BedJet is surprisingly simple—much easier than the 30-page manual would lead you to believe. It can be constructed in minutes (the hardest part being getting the nozzle situated just right so that it sits close to the mattress), and once you plug it in, you’re off and running. Or rather, you’re under the covers, because the thing really does raise the game on bedtime comfort.
In chilly northern California, the BedJet is a godsend. A few minutes of heat before hopping into bed at night turns dreaded, cold sheets into a toasty envelope that I was soon rushing to get into. Even my wife, a natural-born skeptic on gear like this, was quickly converted. While I didn’t have much need for the cooling mode (note that it doesn’t actively chill the air, it simply draws cooler air from under the bed and blasts it between the sheets) during my November testing, I can already see that in the blistering heat of summer it will be welcomed.
All of this is controlled via a dedicated remote, a clunky device which looks like something Art Linkletter might have hawked and is puzzling in its design, particularly due to its lack of an off button. The remote features three modes—cool, heat, and turbo heat (YEAH!)—but to turn them off you have to press the button for the mode you’re on a second time. Don’t know if you’re on heat or turbo heat? You just stab at buttons until the thing shuts down. That’s fine, though, because at least you can keep your hands under the covers while you do it.
BedJet also works with a mobile app, and while it also looks like an Art Linkletter project, it does give you more fine-grained control over the speed of the fan, the temperature of the heat, and the duration of each run. If you want to set up timers or use the BedJet as a decadent alarm clock, this is how you do it.
If you want to get really fancy, BedJet markets a special $99 sheet called the AirComfort Cloud Sheet, which you attach directly to the BedJet nozzle. This directs the airflow in between the two layers of the sheet, which causes it to puff up like a balloon, trapping the air inside and ostensibly keeping you warmer or cooler for longer, since the air can’t leak out as easily. But my wife’s got Swedish blood, so we sleep only with a duvet, no top sheet, and this was a non-starter for her. She wasn’t even sold on the concept of the Dual Zone Cloud Sheet, which is split down the middle so you can—wait for it—attach two BedJets to it, one on either side. This concept lets you heat one side of the bed and cool the other, but you’re probably better off sleeping in separate rooms if that’s how things are playing out in your relationship.
