'Bed Fan' keeps you cool under the sheets
'Bed Fan' clips on to the end of your mattress to blow cool air — or in my case clouds of dog hair — from under your bed into your sheets. One might ask, "Why not just ditch the sheet entirely if you're so warm?" As a bit of a persnickety sleeper myself, especially as an exothermic heat emitter of the first order, let me explain: it's nice to have a sheet around you even if you're warm because it helps wick away sweat while still protecting you from bugbears and wumpuses.
The whole rig is $100 and is probably pointless, even though I sort of want one. (I can just imagine bringing a girl home and then trying to explain why there was a giant black plastic contraption with its head under the sheets. Then I'd ask her to sand my corns while we watched Hee-Haw.)
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I sort of want one too. It could be 120F in my room but I absolutely need to be under sheets to be able to fall asleep. I'm also a tuck person, while my girlfriend is an untuck person, so that causes issues.
It seems kinda cheap looking for $100. For that priced I'd just as soon buy a nice oscillating fan to put right at the foot of my bed, and have $70 left over to pay for a couples counseling session to resolve the tuck vs. untuck thing.
Dutch Forced Convection Oven.
I regret to inform you that you've been hornswoggled: A bedsheet will NOT protect you from bugbears. However, you're still fairly wumpus-safe.
Funny, I thought of this exact device years ago, except the fan would operate in the opposite direction. The benefit would be that you could fart in bed with a partner. That way the there would be another way out for the fart besides going directly past your nose!
Skip that, get yourself a Chillow:
http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/05/23/its-like-a-heatsink-for-your-head-in-praise-of-the-chillow/
Here is a somewhat similar earlier design:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/29/conditioned-air-supplied-to-can
opy-on-bed/
A machine to blow farts & dust bunny chum over me as I sleep.
Somehow a ceiling fan seems to keep me cool, let me keep a sheet & a light blanket over me, & not be so ridiculous.
I have a perpetually malfunctioning internal heater, and I live in a really, really warm apartment. So I crack my window and sleep with like, three blankets and flannel sheets all winter. I fail at having a regulated body temperature. So in the summer, it would probably be kind of awesome, but the noise would probably drive me insane.
Oh, and a sheet doesn't just protect you from bugbears and wumpuses - if you like to sleep in the nude, and have roommates, it protects your dignity too!
Awesome product for sure. The Bedfan is much better than a regular fan as it blows under neath your sheets. I prefer mine.
The best thing about it is if you are a hot sleeper and sweat a lot it really can keep you cooler just when you need it. When you are sleeping!!
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