Summer is coming in NYC, which means hot weather and the yearly christening of the air-conditioner. On those miserably hot days and hotter nights, the air-conditioner is a savior but not one without faults. First there’s the noise factor: even though its technically “white noise,” the air-conditioner is still pumping sound pollution into your dreams, not to mention the on and off cycle everyone should be hearing with the A.C. set to a temperature and not a constant blast.

Evening Breeze.

Next there’s the window blockage: in a typical New York apartment you’re lucky to have one window in your bedroom and blessed to have more, which makes the precious space taken up by the air-conditioner that much more valuable. Finally there’s the cost: every minute its on, the air-conditioner is racking up dollars for the electric company and making your physical comfort far less comforting.

Solution: Evening Breeze integrated cooling bed. The idea draws upon the traditional use of the canopy bed, where the netting was meant to keep insects and other unwanted creatures away. Evening Breeze offers a mosquito netting, but the genius reaches far beyond bugs. Each bed comes with its own personal cooling system, which creates a micro-climate around the inhabitants instead of wasting energy cooling the entire room. The technology harnesses the natural process of heat flow (cool air sinks, hot air rises) and uses that process to cool, filter and dehumidify the air immediately surrounding the bed. Evening Breeze claims there is no blast of air and no noise, I have yet to experience this myself but am hopeful this is true. Saving up to 60% on nightly cooling energy, the Evening Breeze bed is a great solution to sleepless summer nights.