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Is it Time for a Magnetic Floating Bed?
An anonymous reader writes "In one of the coolest implementations of ridiculously expensive tech to come along in a while, it seems that a Dutch architect has created a magnetically suspended bed. That is, if you happen to have a spare $1.54 million laying around you don't know what to do with and don't mind being careful about your piercings when getting the cat from under the bed."
considering its capabilities of advancing civilization and all.
It's held to its place with small metal wires, so it's not totally flying. I thought it'd be a solution against bed bugs and fleas, as they wouldn't be able to get on the bed. But no.
hemi
Who is ever gonna buy it? I mean, there are beds with water, there are expensive cool beds, there are beds shaped like a racing car or a plane. But how much of you sleep in this kind of bed every night?
I thought for a moment that the sleeping person himself would be magnetically suspended.
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From TFA:
"with a price tag of 1.2 million euros" [...] "It is not comfortable at the moment," admits Ruijssenaars, adding "it needs cushions and bedclothes before use."
I can see this. You buy the bed, add some bedclothes and walk to the counter.
Cashier: "That'll be 1.2 mln euro's, plus 20 for the bed clothes"
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I would be scared about lying on such a black thing. You know, one moment you are counting sheeps, one moment later everything goes trippy and you are sucked into a transhuman dimension where nothing makes sense ad you witness all your ages up to your death bed and reincarnate as a space-floating fetus. No, thanks!
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Don't know about his cat, but Schroedinger is definitely dead.
As someone who is hard to wake up (I love sleep when I finally remember to get some), one of my first thoughts was that it would make one hell of an alarm. Cut the power - fall to the ground. After 1 second (just before you can recover from falling), power it back up and get flung out of bed. Either you'd be wide awake or unconscious on the floor next to your ejection bed.
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The magnetic Bungee Jump!
Why is this news?
Okay, so some guy with a slick-sounding name took a sheet of plywood, a whole bunch or permanent magnets, some steel cabling, and put them together. When I first heard about this over a week ago, I didn't bother to RTFA and assumed there were no cables. That actually impressed me, the thought he solved the problem of movement along the field lines using just magnetism. I had thoughts of some sophisticated system of electromagnets continually detecting and adjusting the field to keep the bed aligned, or at least some sort of damping configuration to justify the absurd price!
But no, as usual, it's just another laughable device to separate scientifically-ignorant wealthy people from their money.
I hope he patents it! LOL
Just a comment. I wonder what it would feel like to be in an earthquake while sleeping in one of these beds.
for those of you who have piercings in your 'peep', for not being able to 'get it up'
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I like my matress to be fixed to solid ground. But then again, I don't really like water mattresses, either. Is there really a market for a magnetic bed?
- AC induction heating
- jewellery materials
- Girls
Probably in that order, since research into the second item might help with research into the third item.Pining for the fjords
Aren't strong magnetic fields supposed to be harmful? After all, there's this fuss about living under power lines...
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
Could it be coupled with your alarm-clock to cut the power to the bed when the alarm rings? That would be one hell of a wake-up.
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The hoverboard must not be far off!
I think you have a mistake there. The bed is operated by magnets, not electromagnets. So it won't increase your electricity bill.
But still, I'm not sure I like your solution either. Ants can still come from the ceiling. One of them woke me up yesterday.. maybe it's a hint I should wash the floor.
Anyway, I think the best solution would be a personal laser bubble, similar to the one mentioned here (but smaller). It will destroy any nasty insect getting near me, and will take care of mosquitos as well (damn that asian tiger is driving me crazy!)
hemi
Champaggin?
The rest of the world is thinking about the sensation of this bed as a participant in intimate movements involving a fellow human, you're thinking about movement between tectonic plates? Is this the scientific method I've heard so much about?
a bed's design hasn't changed for thousands of years is because it's a perfect invention. We don't need NEW beds.
...of all the piercing jokes, but (and I'm sure a lot of you probably already know this), any halfway decent body jewelry is completely nonmagnetic: stainless steel, titanium, or niobium. I know for sure - I have a headful of all three metals and never had any problems with a 400MHz NMR; the red line on the floor with the little flying wrench icon was like 20 feet from that sucker.
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The best part is that after blowing a mil and a half on this thing ($1.5M and he couldn't figure out how to get rid of the tether wires?), it will erase all your credit cards for you so that you can't be that stupid ever again.
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Don't take your laptop to bed.
Doh!
"The nation that controls magnetism controls the universe"
-- 3 events that reshaped the world in the 20th century: WW1, WW2, and WWW
Would someone please tell that to Barry and Elliot, Bernie and Phyll, Raymour and Flannigan, Mattress Giant, and every other furniture store whose horriblly annoying ads I have to listen to every other commercial on the way to work when I just want to hear the $#%^@$ traffic report?
tuck the sheets in ?
An even better way to suspend your sleep... ^Z
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Sort of an anti-gravity bed.
The effects of gravity are still felt by a sleeper on this "mag-lev" bed, so it doesn't really do anything for your ability to sleep, it just has a cool furniture factor.
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Guess that using a laptop in this bed is kinda out of the question. Damn!
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I only wear gold earrings.
LK
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Piercing rings aren't closed. You, obviously, need to pass them thru the pierced hole.
and unlike earrings, most of them have non-metallic decoration (plastic colored beads that double as nut to close the hole in the ring, or the extremities in case of open piercing, once it is in place).
This makes them poor induction heating targets and completly unable to be repelled like a Tesla coils in alternating magnetic field.
Some cheap earrings may be made of ferromagnetic material but it isn't advisable to wear them before the pierced hole has healed.
(Some of those are even completly metallic and can be closed in a loop shape that has a tendency to float mid-air in the vicinity of high field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imagery machines - already witnessed it).
For intimate (nipple, clit, etc... piercings) this is seldom the case : the material must be better tolerated by the situs of piercing, and the "nice colored bead as nuts" method is prefered both because of easthetic reasons, and because those piercings are worn under clothes and the friction prohibits using simplier "closing in a ring shape" methods.
Yes, I kown, having the opportunity to observe peircings on a girlfriend implies that I *have* girlfriends and this will get me expelled from slashdot community. I'll handle my geek-card at the exit.
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Magnetic fields?
Cancer?
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Even without wires, bugs and fleas would be able to get in the bed by hitchhiking on your person, as well as pillows and blankets.
For those complaining about the support wires, the alternative would be a very quick death as the magnet flips and snaps down, if you ever managed to keep the bed stable long enough to lie on it.
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Metal parts of infusion holders, table for holding various materials, or other such metallic part, are made using non-ferromagnetic metals and don't heat much.
The magnetic field isn't varying that much around the nominal range of the MRI (the gradient used to do signal localisation doesn't from go 0 to 3Tesla, it only oscilliates closer around 3T), the rest of the thermal energy comes from the radiowaves (the Lamor frequency depends of the field and is ussually in the range of Mhz).
Therefore most of the metalic stuff in the MRI room doesn't heat that much.
For the heating to be noticeable, the ruler must be inside the tunnel, the machine must be running a fast sequence, and the field must be rather high (3T machine rather than 1.5T).
But even then, research has developped protocols to do MRI brain scans on parkinsonian patient WITH implanted stimulator. Yes, patient with metal electrodes inside his head having an MRI. And it is still safe. I may find the references if you want (or, you could also easily find them on pubmed).
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Now a liquid helium cooled bed sized superconductor might cost a bit ($1.5mill may cover it...)
When you put a magnet over one it is stabilised without active control. IANAP (i am not a physisist) but it has something to do with induced currents opposing motion (lorenz?)
Liquid nitrogen cooled ceramics might be cheeper if you could build and fire a piece that size... they do have prototype *trains* that run on them after all, so maybe it isnt that 'out there'
Have seen pictures of frogs being levitated without contact, not sure what that would do for your health.. (or potential love life)
ME jealous. ME don't have an "amlost 10T" MRI in my lab to play with.
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