Simba Memory Foam Travel Pillow

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The Simba Hybrid Pillow can be cleaned by unzipping the cover, removing the nanocubes and machine-washing the outer casing at 40C. As someone who is a combination sleeper, I have found it difficult to get products to suit my sleep style. They seem to have dropped the astronaut talk, but they don’t really need it: Stratos works noticeably better than other summer pillows that rely on ‘cooling gels’, which we’ve never been convinced by. Given that the filling is synthetic, it is also suitable for people with allergies or sensitive skin. A low profile pillow that ought to suit all side sleepers could be too low for a very tall side sleeper, for example.

Simba boasts about the ‘space age’ technology that’s gone into its pillow design, which is a marketing buzzphrase that usually makes us yawn. If you’re fortunate enough to be flying in business, you might not think you need a travel pillow—you’re usually given one along with your bedding on long-haul flights. If you just want to sink into a soft pillow and imagine you're in an expensive hotel room, though, this will do the job just fine.

Whether you’re big or small, sleep on your side or your front, you can tweak its dimensions to perfectly fit your needs. Nanocubes are not made of polyurethane, which is the primary material used in all-foam pillows, but of open-cell foam. The understated cover design makes it look less like a budget option, too, although it is polyester, so not quite as breathable as a natural fibre.

This is great for travellers tight on space as it packs flat into a compact sack and weighs just 50g – win-win.For this test we worked our way through a constant rotation of new pillows, looking for those that helped us sleep better. She's currently Sleep Editor on Tom's Guide and TechRadar, and prior to that ran the Outdoors and Wellness channels on T3 (now covered by Matt Kollat and Beth Girdler-Maslen respectively).