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It's 7:20pm and 102 degrees. The humidity is high. It's supposed to be 107 tomorrow. We don't have even a window A/C, only an evap cooler (which doesn't work well when it's humid) and a bunch of fans in every room.

Since it will be midnight before it might get cool enough for me to get to sleep, I'd definately be willing to give this a try.

Thanks for finding this.

I make it through the summer with showers and fans. I do not feel confident that my power outlets can handle an AC safely. This item is interesting to me. I have to look into it more.

This is pretty neat. I also get really hot at night (love the Nova analogy!), but I don't like sleeping without a blanket because I feel exposed (can't explain it, just feel that way).

I put a fan in the window to blow cool air in, but sometimes it's still too warm after a hot day when the house has cooked all day. $90 may be worth trying if it keeps me from having to run the a/c all night long...

P.S. - I found if you order from www.kensolar.com (it was a link from the bedfan site) and use the coupon code "bedfan1" you can buy it for $72 and free shipping.

it looks like it would be a good idea, but wouldn't the air go right up your nose drying out nasal passages and your throat? sleeping under a ceiling fan or having a/c blow directly on me makes me prone to nosebleeds... so i'm just wondering.

They should have included a heating element for it too. That would be more beneficial for year round use. Because I'm one of those people who used the hair dryer while sleeping.

@nrb, you can pull the blanket/sheet around you, so that the air exhausts only where you want it to, like up your back and behind your head. Or wedge the blankets around your top and have it blow out by your leg, by moving your leg to the edge of the blanket/sheet and providing a way for the air to get out.

You will want the light weight sheet only on your body for the most part using these things, for them to work best. Then the motor won't have to work so hard, and puffing up the sheet all around with be the most cooling.

On the other hand, folks that can't sleep without a blanket or sheet may find this disturbing, because the sheet is not in contact with the body. And if you can sleep without most of the contact, you can sleep without a sheet at all, with a much less expensive regular fan blowing over your body.

I'll personally wait until they incorporate a heating element. So that I can control the incoming air temperature. That would be beneficial for me.

Were you even born in 1975? LOL.

You could make your own contraption and save a lot of money. Use a bed guard-rail that is used to keep little kids from falling out of bed. Set it under the foot of your mattress, and aim your fan at it. Clip your sheet to it.

THose guard rails usually have mesh on them, but you can remove it.

Also, if you like to use a blanket, like I do, switch to a woven all-cotton blanket in the summer. MUCH dooler, and the gaps in the weave help keep you cooler.

For those who don't mind sleeping in a wind storm, this might be an okay idea. But a strong breeze constantly blowing over my body at night, no matter how hot it is, would be EXTREMELY uncomfortable for me. LilyC has to have a blanket at night. I can't have a gale wind blowing over me while I sleep.

I live in Puerto Rico, where the price of electricity is out of control. I'm a single guy, who only watches about 1hr of TV a day and only runs his air conditioner when he sleeps and my electric bill for this past month was $263

Something like this could be great for hacking away at the communist electric bills i receive.

WHOA! unlucky eddie with the super high electric bills.

I guess I'm fortunate. I live in the hot and humid southeastern USA where you really HAVE to run the A/C full time in the summer months and my June electric bill was under $50. Of course, it helps living in a condo of reasonable size with neighbors above and below me, helping to insulate me from the heat. But I've nowhere else seen electricity as affordable as here.

Were you even born in 1975? LOL

Yup, and I grew up with my father's 1975 midnight blue Chevy Nova, so the overheating experience is firsthand. Not much of an improvement afterward with a 1982 Chevy Malibu station wagon.

"Back in the day" as my husband likes to say, people who lived near highways like the Grapevine put barrels of water at the edge of their property nearest the road because they got tired of motorists banging on their door asking for water for overheated cars. (This was also before plastic milk jugs made it easier to carry water in said car.) It wasn't unusual to see a dozen or more cars on the side of the road with hoods up, and a great many people tried to make the trip at night - especially in the summer - when it was cooler.

Yes, I have been there and done that. We made the trip numerous times in a Nash Rambler.

But I was a child. Very young. Really young. :-)

This is also good for evacuating the "dutch oven" effect after a night of beans.