Bedgear - Glacier 1.0 Pillow (20x 26) - White

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• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Definitely a unique experience

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  Disclaimer: I am a member of Best Buy’s Technical Insider Network, TIN for short. Reviewers in this invitation-only program are provided products for the purpose of writing honest, unbiased reviews. First Impressions: The look and feel of the pillow’s cover are elegant. The cover is decorated with copper embroidery, copper gromet surrounds on the air vents, and the top and bottom is a combination of interweaving copper and grey threads through a field of white fluffy material. The white fully material is unevenly spread to give the pillow top an angelic fluffy cloud aesthetic. It also very easily resembles a MineCraft copper mine. A small zipper along one side of the pillow cover will allow access to the pillow inside. The pillow is soft, malleable, and has little to no spring to it. The pillow’s surface has a very smooth, almost satin like feel and finish. I could feel an unusual lumpiness to the filler inside as I ran my hand over the surface. If felt like a bag of fluffy cotton balls haphazardly stuffed into a bag kind of lumpiness. Some spots were lite, fluffy, and gave little to no resistance when compressed. Other spots were stiffer and compressed with slightly more force. Pressing down on the pillow with both hands spread confirmed for me that the filler and firmness of the pillow is uneven. The reason for this is because the pillow’s filling is a combination of shredded latex foam and polyester fiber. This also explains why half the pillow feels firmer than the other half. More on that below. Experience: The first thing I did was remove the Glacier’s pillow cover and washed it. I am unsure if the pillows are good to go out of the box. In my case, the pillow cover smelled like a rug factory. Following the care instructions on the label I washed in cold water and tumble dried on low heat delegate cycle. This helped a lot. And the Glacier’s pillow cover came out of the wash undamaged and looking just as new as it went into the wash. I then put the Glacier in a pillowcase. This helps protect the pillow from all the nasty things that my face could excrete throughout the night. How do I feel after 1 week? I hated this pillow the first night I used it. I felt like my neck was too low, there was not enough support for my head, and my arm went numb when I was sleeping on my right shoulder. I was not using the pillow as I should have though. Part of the reason I was so uncomfortable was because my memory foam pillow held my head and neck at a specific height regardless of my sleeping position. I was used to that even though I woke up most morning with an ackey jaw and a stiff neck. I was not used to the Glacier’s two firmness zones. It was not until the third night that I had this figured out. My preference is to use the soft side of the pillow for back sleeping and the firm side for side sleeping. My nights went a lot better after making this adjustment. I slept well from here on out. For a final test, I moved back to my memory foam pillow. This is when I realized how much pressure the memory foam pillow was placing on my jaw and ear. No wonder I was always waking up with neck and jaw pain. The Glacier was not exerting pressure on those pressure points. There were a few times where the filler proved uncomfortable. It was relatively easy to readjust the pillow to and find a comfortable position. Cooling: The Glacier purports to keep your head cool as you sleep. The pillow has front, back, and side cooling vents to allow air circulation and heat to escape. My bedroom was 68 degrees Fahrenheit or cooler during those nights. It should have been easy to keep my head cool. But it did not. I woke up in the middle of the night and in the morning with the alarm and found my head and the surrounding pillow are to be very warm. I am hesitant to blame in this on my pillowcase because it is made of thin, cheap material and does not insulate very well. I use this same pillowcase on my foam pillow and never felt this warm after a night’s sleep. Maybe the pillow is designed to be used without a pillowcase. I’m not up for going pillow commando. PillowID The PillowID of the Glacier pillow Bedgear sent me size 1.0. This means the pillow is designed for people designated as “small”. 1.0 is also applicable for small back sleepers, side sleepers, and multi-position sleepers. The Glacier 1.0 is also good for “medium” and “large” stomach sleepers. How do you know what pillow is the right size for you? The back of the box has a chart that will help you identify your PillowID. What the chart does not tell you is that your PillowID is based on your T-Shirt size. I confirmed on Bedgear’s website that the T-Shirt size estimate are the same for men and women. My PillowID is a 2.0. Yes, I am using the wrong size pillow according to the size chart. So, how did I fair with the wrong size pillow? Better than I thought. I would still like to try out size 2.0. Why? Recall I mentioned how uneven the filling felt when I ran my hand along the surface of the pillow. This is because this pillow has two firmness zones. The Glazier 2.0 is thicker and hence will offer more support for my head and neck than the Glacier 1.0. Split zone firmness: The zones are not mentioned on the box or Bedgear’s website. The only reason I know about it is due some literature I received in the shipping box. With the logo “Glacier” facing you, the right side of the pillow is firmer than the left side of the pillow. I first noticed this when I rolled from my left shoulder to my right shoulder. I thought my head was going to roll off the bed because the pillow compressed so much. This is easily remedied by flipping the pillow long ways when you switch sides. After a few nights you just figure out how to use the pillow. If you are a back sleeper then just pick a side that matches your preferred firmness. The firm side of the pillow met my needs nicely. I felt that the pillow offered enough support without putting pressure on my jaw. Conclusion: I started my week feeling that I would trash this pillow and move back to my memory foam pillow. Now, I am not so certain. My opinion has shifted over the past week. I am favoring the Glacier over the memory foam. Do I feel that the 1.0 is the right pillow for me? No, I am not convinced. The 2.0 pillow is probably the better bet for me. Does this make the 1.0 pillow a bad pillow? Not at all. The memory foam pillow was the cause of many of my neck, shoulder, and jaw issues. I am going to continue to use the Glacier 1.0 until such time I have an opportunity to try out the next size up. Can I recommend this pillow? This is a subjective thing. I would encourage you to try it out if you are in the market for a new pillow and are tired of the same old discount retailer specials.

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  Posted 4 years ago by ITJim

• Rated 2 out of 5 stars

  It kinda works?

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  My wife wanted this pillow because she has hot flashes that are typical for women her age and she can’t sleep if she’s hot. She has tried various cooling pillows over the past few years with mixed results. The Glacier pillow did better than some but not the best she’s ever used. I tried it too but it was a no go for me because it’s a bit too big. I like a flatter pillow myself but my wife likes thicker fluffy ones. This one is thick but Not fluffy. She considers it a medium firm pillow. Anyways, reviewing a pillow is pretty subjective but I do have a FLIR thermal camera that I used to show how this and another "cooling" pillow performed. Using it was interesting and showed that the Glacier Pillow is indeed different from a “plain old pillow” but not so much when compared to another cooling pillow costing less than $50. I used the thermal camera on three different pillows to see how they absorbed, dissipated and isolated heat. One was a plain pillow. One was a similar but much less expensive “cool pillow” that uses gel and the Glacier 3.0. The thermal camera proved that there was little difference in the cooling performance of the “cooling” pillows but that both were better than a plain cheap pillow. It appears that the cover for it may actually make its cooling function less effective from what the thermal camera shows. Sadly, the vents in the sides do not do anything but look cool. That’s because there’s a satin polyester looking material that barely lets any air pass through at all. They call this “Air-X® ventilated gusset engineered with patented Air Vent design.” I call it sales speak. I went to Bedgear’s site and here’s what else they said about it: “Mesh panels and air vents on all four sides provide continuous airflow both in and around the pillow. This helps hot air escape the pillow for a more comfortable sleep." In my opinion there’s No Way this can work like they say it does. Maybe they will comment on my review and explain it. My testing showed that air passes through the pillow cover the easiest about like a Covid N95 type mask. Air passes through the pillow’s shell with a little more resistance than the cover. The gusset, with the air vents, hardly passes air at all. See Photos. The pillow also had to be removed from its cover and aired out several days before use. We wondered if we were going to be able to review it at all when we unboxed it due to the smell. The zipper can be hard to unzip too. We both tried it for several nights and the other cooling pillow too. We both liked the other cooling pillow better. It was a little flatter, more comfortable and more of a cooling effect. The pillow appears to be made very well. Same for the cover. We really wished it lived up to the manufacturer’s hype. I’m sorry to say that I cannot recommend this pillow for the price.

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  This review is from Bedgear - Glacier 3.0 Pillow (20 x 26 ) - White

  Posted 4 years ago by MrLowNotes

• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Keeps your head cool

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  >> Overview Fall season is coming and one might think that lower temperatures merit a warm and cozy pillow, well, it is not the case. With colder weather coming into the Pacific Northwest, we switch to furnace/heating mode for the house, which brings us back to the problem of, how can I get a better sleep while keeping my head cool without opening the Window or lowering the temperature, and as a result, freezing my significant other who prefers warmer temperatures? The Bedgear Glacier pillow overall does the trick. My wife is the one that usually complains about the room being too hot to sleep and waking up in the middle of the night changing her pillow for another one. Now, with this pillow, she doesn’t need to do that anymore, she can sleep the whole night just fine, or at the very worst, just flip the pillow and continue sleeping. I have even tried the pillow, and although I prefer warmer temperatures, I see myself using it while reading books or working on my laptop while in bed, as it keeps my head cool. My wife mentions that she would prefer if the pillow would stay at its coldest all the time, but for that to happen I’d assume you’d need some special mechanical/electrical component. We feel this pillow is between 4 and 5 stars. - Pros: no cables/battery, easy to move (or throw) around, easy to clean. - Cons: still gets warm at some point. >> Comfort Surprisingly, this pillow is very comfortable, and we have lots of pillows from standard to feather and memory foam ones. We can tell this is one of the comfy ones we’ve had so far. We are pleased with it. We chose the 1.0 version as we sleep mostly on our side (also based on our heights), but we’ve noticed that sleeping at any position with the Bedgear Glacier 1.0 is just fine. I can be lying on my belly, back or side and the pillow is just fine. Of course, people would want to follow the recommendations depending on their size and the position they sleep in. >> Sleeping I haven’t used this much for sleeping, as I prefer to have something warmer, but my wife has been enjoying this one every night since we got it. Once asleep, my wife doesn’t need to wake up in the middle of the night to get another pillow. The only problem she has reported is that if she’s having trouble falling sleep, at some point the pillow would get warm and she would be forced to flip the pillow and get the cooler side of it. I’d say that this pillow does the trick for the most part, and ideally it’d be great if it could maintain the coldest temperature all the time. This pillow is a must for houses that have the combo in which some people prefer warmer temperatures and others prefer colder temperatures, that way the temperature discomfort is minimized at least during sleeping time. >> Resting Contrary to “sleeping mode”, when we rest and watch TV or read something on bed, we have noticed that the pillow stays cool for about 20 minutes or so, after which we start to feel like it is warming up (or according to my wife it is already warm). This issue is easily fixed by just flipping the pillow and getting the cooler side. The latter might seem an inconvenience for some people, but we cannot ask a device like this to be cold all the time, I guess the only way of achieving that is if there is some active cooling mechanism, but unfortunately that mechanism will need some electricity (or battery) which wouldn’t be that practical for a pillow.

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  Posted 4 years ago by Goncho