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.
If used as a dining table, only plastic ware will do, I suppose.
What the hell, the price is right, I'll try one out.
Don't get on that with a pace maker.........
I'd be a little worried it would act as a big degaussing magnet.
>>OK, time for everyone to date themselves
Spoken like a true wallflower, I have a date with me sir and I resent the implication! /Humor
OK, even *I* winced.
PAAF (present and accounted for)...very nice until you've "ridden one" in an earthquake (Northridge, 1994, living in Los Angeles), or until it breaks and overwhelms the ridiculously small liner (foul play was suspected)!
I gotta hand it to you.
Or maybe better to let you hand it to you.
Still do. Very comfortable, and it's warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
"They don't need...to order their...landspeeder beds.
"These aren't the beds they're looking for.
"They can go about their business.
"Move along."
Nobody can do YOU as good as YOU can!
;-)
Yeah, IIRC the newer ones are pretty nice.
I just bought a waterbed filled up for me and you
They say you are a snuff queen, Honey, I don't think that's true
So, why don't we get drunk and screw.
What is French for "you owe me a new monitor"?! A "tsumommy"? ROFLMAO!!!!
You do remember the Capt'n don't yer?
Why I can still recall the radio announcement:
High-Be-Gar!!!! Maties, this here's yer Capt'n speaking.
From Capt'ns Waterbed Sales
Down here at North 44 and Convoy Streets in San Diego.
Har, Har, Har!
This be yer Capt'ns word for t'day!
If'n ya find that yer yardarm is too short,
Well then use yer other arm! Har! Har! Har!
an abomination.
never. way before my time : )
PFAUGH!
you are just J : )
$1.5 million and the designer says it is not comfortable? Wouldn't it be more comfortable and cheaper to stuff a mattress with old $20 bills?
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