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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.
No more squeaky sex!
Did you know that you can be apathetic to apathy? Not that I give a shit...
...it's just a photoshop!
Now, if these had AC magnetic fields, and you got a girlfriend with magnetic nipple piercings and a steel clit ring, she'd never want to get out of bed. Not that this would be bad, mind you. Ooops. Maybe I shouldn't have typed that at work while my boss was around... I can explain, sir! Really. I'm working, not fantasizing. I was just thinking of ways to dress up that PowerPoint presentation for you.
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!
Nuffsaid
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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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I thought for a moment that the sleeping person himself would be magnetically suspended.
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- 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
The hoverboard must not be far off!
Yes, I have one of these, it's called a... "Hammock"
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
I tried patenting separating the ignorant from their money, but apparently there was some prior art.
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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