What it's like to use the Gravity Blanket, a $250 weighted blanket that's designed to reduce stress and help you sleep

The Gravity Blanket is a weighted blanket that's intended to reduce stress and anxiety and help you sleep. What began as a Kickstarter campaign has now netted $15 million in sales and spawned products like a sleep mask and cooling blanket.

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What it's like to use the Gravity Blanket, a $250 weighted blanket that's designed to reduce stress and help you sleep The Gravity Blanket is a weighted blanket that's intended to reduce stress and anxiety and help you sleep. What began as a Kickstarter campaign has now netted $15 million in sales and spawned products like a sleep mask and cooling blanket. Read More »

Everything I loved and hated about using HTC's new $800 flagship smartphone, the U12+ HTC's new flagship smartphone, the HTC U12+, has several futuristic and high-end features like squeezable edges, dual cameras, and a large display. But the phone also has a lot of shortcomings — and it costs $800. Read More »

Top investors gambled $12 million on the blockchain equivalent of Beanie Babies. Now, sales are plummeting. Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures gave CryptoKitties, a blockchain game for digital collectibles, $12 million in March. But hardly anyone is buying or selling them anymore. Read More »

The 5 most important changes and additions coming to the iPhone in the next major update, iOS 12 When iOS 12 arrives later this year, it's bringing a ton of changes and new stuff to the iPhone and iPad. But only a handful of those new things will make a huge difference on your life. Read More »

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Google's new retail strategy is a clever way to cut into Amazon's business that also solves its image problem BI PRIME: Retailers around the world looking for help competing against Amazon are turning to Google. For Google, this represents a chance to profit from transactions, expand cloud and voice assistant adoption and slow down an arch rival. Read More »

This smartphone has a hidden pop-out selfie camera that could help Apple solve the iPhone X's biggest design flaw The company came up with some ingenious, innovative ideas to get rid of the "notch." Read More »

My girlfriend and I fought zombies inside a local movie theater — and it could be the future of VR VR arcades let people try cutting-edge technologies without spending money on a pricey headset, and the experiences and games can also be customized and administered by experts. One VR startup, Sandbox VR, even believes that VR can be a way to build stronger teams and friendships. So I tried it. Read More »

A legendary Silicon Valley investor wants to split California into 3 states, and his proposal just qualified for the November ballot A proposal to split California into three states has qualified to appear on the ballot in November's general election. The measure received more than 400,000 valid signatures, thanks to support from the legendary Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper. Read More »

All Apple employees now get standing desks — and Tim Cook has said he believes 'sitting is the new cancer' Most of what happens inside Apple Park, the iPhone company's stunning new headquarters, is top secret. But Apple CEO Tim Cook recently disclosed one new detail about the work environment: Everyone gets a standing desk. Read More »

This futuristic cafe relies on robots to take your order and make your coffee — no human interaction required Cafe X uses robots in lieu of humans to build out coffee orders. But despite the stigma accompanying the industry's automation trend, the company said it's focused on "humans working alongside technology," not replacing them. Read More »

A million people bought this $530 Android-powered iPhone competitor in less than a month It's the most popular smartphone that you probably haven't heard of. Read More »

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