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Mattress
Motion Transfer
"Motion
transfer" or "movement isolation" has to do
with how the mattress localizes or absorbs motion. In other
words, a bed that has little or no motion transfer absorbs
the movement of one person on the bed so that the other person
does not feel it.
Airbeds
Both the Sleep Number
/ Select Comfort and Comfortaire
bed generally have little motion transfer. Their independent
air chambers help to dampen movement from spreading across
the bed.
Memory foam beds
Memory foam mattresses provide excellent movement isolation.
You have probably seen the commercials of the person walking
on the bed without disturbing the glass of water that's also
on the bed.
Waterbeds
Waterbeds do not generally provide good motion isolation.
However, some are better than others on this issue depending
on their level of advancement, specifically whether or not
they have multiple water chambers.
Latex beds
They generally provide good motion isolation because of the
independent cell construction of natural latex.
Innerspring / coil mattresses
Innerspring beds are capable of providing good motion isolation
if they have pocket coils. Often, however, they do not.
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