{"id":2177,"date":"2026-07-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/forget-expensive-sleepbuds-buy-this-pillow-instead\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:00:00","slug":"forget-expensive-sleepbuds-buy-this-pillow-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/forget-expensive-sleepbuds-buy-this-pillow-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget expensive sleepbuds. Buy this pillow instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A pillow with two visible holes, equidistant from the edges on the top surface sits on a bed. \" data-caption=\"This \u201cpiercing pillow\u201d also works great with earbuds you probably already own.\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/IMG_2665.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tThis \u201cpiercing pillow\u201d also works great with earbuds you probably already own.\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Tech companies love to sell us expensive gadgets to solve all of life&#8217;s little problems. Sleepbuds sold by the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/reviews\/781970\/earbuds-that-block-snoring-soundcore-a30\">Anker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/22\/24275875\/ozlo-sleepbuds-hands-on-bose-wearables-sleep-tracking\">Ozlo<\/a> are a good example. These miniature marvels of engineering sit flush in the ear, and allow side-sleepers to doze off listening to podcasts, audiobooks, music, or white noise without annoying their partner. But why pay over $200 for a second pair of highly specialized buds when you can spend a fraction of that for a product that never needs charging, never loses its Bluetooth connection, and won&#8217;t need replacing in a few years after the battery wears out? <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Piercing pillows, as the name suggests, promise pain  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/970473\/forget-expensive-sleepbuds-buy-this-pillow-instead\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201cpiercing pillow\u201d also works great with earbuds you probably already own. Tech companies love to sell us expensive gadgets to solve all of life&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[316,315],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-tech","tag-the-verge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}