A Bed Just Saved This Man’s Life. Here’s How

If ever a bed deserved a five-star review, it’s this one. In a recent case report, doctors describe how a smart bed’s monitoring saved a 70-year-old man from almost certain doom.

James Ip, a cardiologist at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York–Presbyterian Hospital, detailed the strange tale in the New England Journal of Medicine over the weekend. The man’s bed alerted him that he had an unusually slow heartbeat, prompting a trip to the emergency room where he was…