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Sleep gear: fix the room before you buy anything
Most bedroom problems come down to three things: heat, noise and light. Start with the guide for the one keeping you up, then compare the products that address it — compared from published specs and research, not from our own testing.
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How these pages work
Each comparison puts a handful of products in one table using the specs their makers publish — noise ratings, light blocking, battery life, materials — and then says which one we would choose for which kind of sleeper, and who should skip it. We have not slept on, worn or listened to these products in a lab, so you will not find phrases like "in our testing" here. Where research exists on the problem itself (how much heat or night noise disturbs sleep, what a gradual dawn does to grogginess) we cite it at the bottom of the page.
There are no prices or star ratings on these pages. Prices change daily and we have no live feed we would trust, so a number on this page would be wrong within a week. No brand paid to be included and we do not accept free products.
Two things we deliberately leave out. Blue-light-blocking glasses: the best review of the trials found the evidence for better sleep weak, so we would rather tell you to dim the room. Melatonin and sleep supplements: they are medicines, and a website is the wrong place to choose one — ask a pharmacist or doctor.
If a free option does the job, we say so first. Our own iPhone app plays rain, waves and other masking sounds with a timer, and a phone on the nightstand is often enough before buying a sound machine. The bedtime calculator on the home page costs nothing and fixes more tired mornings than any gadget.