Owners of Eight Sleep smart beds woke up in a sweat Monday night, and not because they were having bad dreams.

Instead, they were literally sweating as their malfunctioning beds—which had been knocked offline due to Monday’s massive Amazon cloud outage—began overheating and got stuck upright, or in other ungainly positions.

It was an embarrassing situation, no question—a bed got knocked offline?—and it led to a hoard of angry Eight Sleep users, an apology from the company’s CEO, and a slew of bad headlines .

The Eight Sleep snafu served as yet another example of smart technology that suddenly turns dumb once there’s an internet or server outage. Indeed, a “dumb” bed with heating and position controls that actually work was briefly smarter than Eight Sleep’s $2600-and-up smart “pods,

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