| What's the big deal about a new technology called | | | | person to another, it makes for a very unyielding |
| iCoil and why should you care? | | | | material. |
| Before we get to that question, consider what | | | | If you end up bending a portion of that perimeter |
| you're up against as a mattress shopper. | | | | wire, your mattress will be permanently bent there. |
| If you've been bed shopping, lately, you are surely | | | | I had a friend who tied his mattress to the roof of |
| aware of the myriad of different mattress materials | | | | his car, while moving, and the wind lifted the front |
| that are being used. | | | | half of the mattress up and bent it. It was really |
| Years ago, even before all these choices, I | | | | weird looking when he laid it down, because it stuck |
| remember being confused, myself, with trying to | | | | up 3" off the boxed spring on one end. |
| wrap my mind around everything I was being told by | | | | There's brand new technology called iCoil that I've |
| the salespeople in different stores I would visit. | | | | been looking into. |
| Today, the job is even more daunting with air, | | | | These iCoils are so precision-made that they can be |
| water, latex, gel, memory foam, iCoil and springs of | | | | compressed, rolled and placed into a take home box. |
| all kinds making up the market, it's really confusing for | | | | This is a real mattress, in a box, that gently returns |
| you, the consumer. | | | | to it's original size and shape once you open the |
| In spite of the vast array of mattress available, it's a | | | | package. |
| well known fact that a whopping 75%-80% of | | | | Other types of mattress springs were tested using |
| Americans still prefer sleeping on spring mattresses. | | | | the same criteria and they all failed. |
| With this in mind, you might want to spend a couple | | | | The exact results were different, but failure of some |
| of minutes with me, learning the difference in springs | | | | type was the common thread. |
| and what that means to you. | | | | The pocket springs never returned to anywhere near |
| Bonnell springs are the most common kind of springs | | | | their original size and shape. The bonnell springs |
| that mattresses are made with, so let's take a look | | | | performed worst of all. |
| at them. | | | | In fact, remember my friend with the bent springs? |
| The bonnell spring mattresses are made by securing | | | | Well, the bonnell spring mattress that was rolled up, |
| all the springs together as a unit and then surrounding | | | | did the same thing. It remained rolled permanently |
| them with a stiff wire, to make a perimeter around | | | | after being unpacked. |
| the mattress. | | | | It looked like a giant roll of chicken wire. |
| By tying all the springs together, what you get is, | | | | I think this new technology holds some promise. Time |
| essentially, one great big spring. | | | | will tell. |
| Not only does this design transfer motion from one | | | | |