r/spicypillows

I stumbled across this reddit, not even a month ago while I was looking up which smartphones have the best battery life. I browsed a few posts because I was fascinated and that was that, went back to my usual reddit haunts.

Last Wednesday I'm in bed with my husband. He goes to wake up his 15~ year old macbook, which has served as a white noise machine in our bedroom since he replaced it about 5 years ago. It has lived on his bedside table the whole time, rarely moved as he could reach it from bed to set up our nightly playlist. This particular evening it shut off as quickly as it woke from rest mode. Frustrated, he picked it up to check the cable wasn't damaged and was feeling around to see if it was overheated or something, he tilted it towards me at one point and I noticed the casing on the right side was separated about half an inch.

Thanks to this sub I knew we had a spicy pillow in our midst and I asked him to turn it off immediately. He then looked some more and the casing was also bursting open on the other side of the same corner. Unfortunately no spicy pillow pics cause we were not trying to open the damn thing and we were honestly terrified cause that thing could have gone up right next to our bed. At the advice of a friend who worked at an Apple Genius Bar, we put it in a metal bucket for the night, and first thing the next morning put it in our emptied out fire safe and drove to our nearest Apple store to dispose of it. Even the Genius folks were a little taken aback. But they got it wiped and disposed of correctly.

Y'all probably saved our lives, if I hadnt seen this sub I would have just assumed it got damaged at some point and I hadnt noticed.

Lately it has been extremely hot and I have been trying to figure out which cooling pillow I should buy but everyone online uses the same vague marketing language like improving airflow, regulate temperature while staying cool throughout the night and all this is very confusing because it does not help you make a decision as a consumer but rather get lost in the sea of options. 

What I noticed is they are divided into two types, the ones that focus on gel infused foam and the ones that rely on breathable fabric together with ventilation channels and that was the first main difference that could help me make a conscious decision, I was curious  whether the one performs better for everyday use or even long term. Another thing I was curious about  was whether the climate directly affects how the pillow works.  together with things like sleeping position because I believe but sleepers generate let's hit then side sleepers who generate more concentrated heat. well browsing through Alibaba the options feel overwhelming and I was wondering for people who have experimented with different cooling pillows what features ended up mattering most after regular night use and what  marketing should nearby us completely ignore