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."

Comments

Re:Kinda disappointing

[Anonymous Coward]

Obsidian?
Actually a glass, but black, volcanic, and used as a gemstone (and historically used as blades for weapons, now used in surgical scalpels too, according to the Wikipedia).

Re:Preventing evil parasites from getting to bed

[mrchaotica]

I think you have a mistake there. The bed is operated by magnets, not electromagnets. So it won't increase your electricity bill.

Ah, that explains the price tag -- permanant magnets are much more expensive, aren't they?

Now, what I would have done is used an elecromagnet for the base, made it concave so that it wouldn't need wires for stability, and wired the whole thing through a dimmer switch (or similar device) so that would have adjustable height.

Not only would it be much cheaper, but with a good control device you could make it vibrate like those motel beds. For that matter, if you arranged the electromagnets in the base correctly, you could even have the bed spin like in Austin Powers. The possibilities are endless!