We're sleeping above the ground now.

[KentaRawr!]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060807/od_nm/dutch_bed_dc

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).

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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.

Indeed, this is something I have dreamed of my whole life. THE MAGNETIC BED!!! I knew it was possible. I knew it was! Now then, for Magnetic Skates...

Anywho, what is your take on the floating bed? As it says in the article, it's not too comfortable. Just look at it.



It's certainly very rectangular. But if I were to win the lottery, I'd buy it in an instant. What about you guys?

[Cloudstrife4003]

OMG!!! It's a possessed bed!

[Twisted Tinkerbell]

I have quite a few piercings, so I'll end up sleeping face down and suffocating on the bed

[Meat Puppet]

Yeah, it doesn't look very comfortable at all. I guess you might be able to put some kind of padding on it to up the comfort. Still, the mere thought of sleeping like that makes me ill.

Could be fun for other stuff, though. But not really.

[Cloudstrife4003]

it would hurt if u fell off the bed...

[41-Inches-Wide]

It's not for me.
That looks bad for someone who has a problem about rolling out of bed in the middle of the night.

EDIT
OH! We have telekinesis or something

[Anaisa]

Falling out of bed would be awful!

[licence]

Hmmm the bed might not be any higher than a normal bed though. Even then falling off hurts I suppose lol.

[Kurui]

ooo, it looks cool, but I think I'll wait for the price to go down.. a lot

[Anaisa]

The finished design would most likely have some sort of surround on it, to stop people falling out of the bed.

[lovehurts]

Now all we need is hover cars and stuff.

[Arrianna]

That is just awsome! I would buy one in an instant... at a reasonable price. :laugh:

[lovehurts]

WE find out that sleeping on magnetized beds gives us cancer and the beds are no longer available.

[KentaRawr!]

WE find out that sleeping on magnetized beds gives us cancer and the beds are no longer available.

I bet the magnets give off super radiation that makes our sweat turn into cancer cells and then when we sweat we get cancer! O_O

[KentaRawr!]

I doubt you'd fall out if you don't fall out of your normal bed. The only difference with this one is how it's above the ground. :mog: It just looks like it's easy to fall out of because it's bare and doesn't have any legs.

Of course, it can also be used as a table.