HOW MANY FREEPERS OWN/ONCE OWNED A WATERBED?
Posted on 08/07/2006 11:49:16 AM PDT by Junior
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A young Dutch architect has created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million).
Janjaap Ruijssenaars took inspiration for the bed -- a sleek black platform, which took six years to develop and can double as a dining table or a plinth -- from the mysterious monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 cult film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"No matter where you live all architecture is dictated by gravity. I wondered whether you could make an object, a building or a piece of furniture where this is not the case -- where another power actually dictates the image," Ruijssenaars said.
Magnets built into the floor and into the bed itself repel each other, pushing the bed up into the air. Thin steel cables tether the bed in place.
"It is not comfortable at the moment," admits Ruijssenaars, adding it needs cushions and bedclothes before use.
Although people with piercings should have no problem sleeping on the bed, Ruijssenaars advises them against entering the magnetic field between the bed and the floor.
They could find their piercing suddenly tugged toward one of the magnets.
Excellent! What I need is a floating wet bar with little jets and a remote.
People with metallic pins, pacemakers, and other foreign metallic objects in their skin or implanted in their bodies should also be careful about crawling under the bed to clean out cobwebs.
It's quite a world we have built for ourselves.
HOW MANY FREEPERS OWN/ONCE OWNED A WATERBED?
Funny I've heard of dining tables serving as beds in spontaneous circumstances, but never the other way around.
Wonder how the hard drive on your laptop would do.
No saturday morning wireless email check for you.
I remember a rumor going around that the Francis Bitter National Magnet Lab at MIT used to have a larger than normal (whatever that means) incidence of leukemia among the researchers exposed to intense fields. NWIH I would lay down in a field every night.
Always remember to keep the bed covered. If you don't, the cats will chase the bubble and you'll be up at 2AM with the repair kit.
I don't think I'd want to sleep on it if I had a pacemaker either.
So as a practical joke, if you cut the cables, will the bed propel it's self across the room, or try to flip over and snap back together with the occupants doing a sandwich meat immitation?
Looking for signs of photoshopping...
One night when Mrs. Palm was very pregmant with #1, she rolled into her side of the bed and almost through me out of my side.
I dubbed it a tsumommy.
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Yet another somewhat less than intelligent designer, I see.
I worked as a salesman at a North Hollywood water bed store and then as manager in the mid-to-late 80s. I made a lot of money doing that. It's actually still a mainstream segment of the furniture market. For the most part, it's also still the best sleep surface for your health. Though I don't sleep on one now.
Check the smoke on the skyline.
LOL
I do.
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