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OVER 50+ YEARS OF SLEEP PRODUCTS
IT ALL BEGAN WITH LOVE
A LOVE STORY
It starts with a traveling salesman named Jim Buckwalter and his insomniac wife, Trudy. Trudy often traveled with Jim, and soon realized that she slept better in motel rooms than she did while at home.
Founder, Jim Buckwalter
RESTFUL SLEEP
After some head-scratching, the couple identified the soothing lull of the air conditioner unit as the cure to Trudy’s relentless tossing and turning.
JIM LOVED TO TINKER
So he got to work in his garage attempting to replicate the constant whirring noise of an air conditioner, with none of the “air” but all of the “sound.” He thus dubbed his invention a “sound conditioner.”
It was quite a simple device: a turntable motor and a small fan blade encased in a dog bowl, mounted atop a disc of foam-covered wood. Jim's machine created a deeply soothing sound from rushing air. This constant sound masked noises. It also helped people sleep like never before.
THE ORIGINAL
SOUND CONDITIONER
Word got out, and soon Jim's friends and family were asking for his sleep machines. A little company was started. And it soon turned into a bigger company.
That’s how the original Yogasleep SleepMate was born, and eventually became the current Dohm.
While the Dohm is somewhat more sophisticated than its dog-dish ancestor, its guts are fundamentally the same. And while our company has grown in size over the decades, that same find-an-answer, inventor-ish, gee-whiz attitude is still around here, as is the love that started it all.
THE ORIGINAL
SOUND CONDITIONER
Most of our products are made (Yogabed) or assembled (Dohm Classic and Dohm) in the USA — some by teammates who have been with our company for so long their ears are part of quality control. In fact, they sign each and every sound machine... you guessed it — with love. That's why Yogasleep products last for decades. So you'll get a serious night's sleep every time you use one.
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