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    Designer creates floating bed

    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.


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    Would be nice to bang a girl on, as you'd never hear about it.

    But the piercing part... yeah, that's not cool.
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    • #3
      Help, my pacemaker's stopped working!
      Brian (the devil incarnate)

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      • #4
        What the @!#$! happened to my laptop!

        (....for those who like to use it in the bed....)

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        Diplomacy, it's a way of saying “nice doggie”, until you find a rock!

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        • #5
          HAHA, that would be me!
          "I dream of a better world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned."

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          • #6
            Yeah, I can see a whole slew of accidental problems with that...

            Also I've heard that it's bad to sleep near a lot of electronics, can the same be said for sleeping near a strong magnetic force?

            *edit* whoops sentence missing a word
            Last edited by TnT; 9 August 2006, 01:18.
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            • #7
              Aren't there other medical side effects, such as STERILITY?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by ZokesPro
                Would be nice to bang a girl on, as you'd never hear about it.

                But the piercing part... yeah, that's not cool.
                Originally posted by KVH
                Aren't there other medical side effects, such as STERILITY?
                Safe and Quiet - that could be an add campaign towards the swinging bachelor
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Claymonkey
                  Safe and Quiet - that could be an add campaign towards the swinging bachelor

                  lol!
                  Diplomacy, it's a way of saying “nice doggie”, until you find a rock!

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by KvHagedorn
                    Aren't there other medical side effects, such as STERILITY?
                    Only if you have iron balls.
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