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.
Nothing that I can publicly relate on this forum.
I dubbed it a tsumommy.
What pregnant humor and cleverness!
Or should I say . . . what a tummy full of a surprise.
or . . .
I'd better quit while I'm behind . . . losing.
L O L
The San Diego quakes were mild enough it was kind of pleasant.
Provided you use plastic knives, forks and spoons.
Though some say the electricity in the heater and the wiring in the walls ane even electric alarm clocks etc. near where one sleeps are significantly unhealthy.
I just know that Burt Rutan has his bedroom TV secluded in a significantly distant, sealed cealing enclosure and views it by two sequential mirrors . . . perhaps because of the electrical hazard phenomena.
mine is a queen waterbed about 3/4ths% waveless liner made to be zipped into a regular mattress shell
it's extremely comfortable and uses regular sheets(I have had both kinds and this is by far the best quality, easiest and most comfortable
Anyone else ever do anything this stupid with a waterbed?
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NO . . . NO . . . .
ABSOLUTELY . . . NO [additional] COMMENT!
Naw, just non-ferrous cutlery.
Snork! Coffee...nose...monitor. Thanks.
LOL!!!!!
Like trying to play handball against the curtains.
and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million).
What is wrong with these two statements?
I still have the one I bought back in '87.
Never. I look at a waterbed and get seasick.
Your voice sounds so wonderful, but your face don't look too clear.
;-)
"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?"
ROFL!! thanks for that image.
If the magnetic bed is a maglev (which it has to be), it might be safer to hang your hammock from a power transmission line.
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