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

Kinda disappointing

[Hemi Rodner]

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.

Re:Kinda disappointing

[Walt Dismal]

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.

let me be the first to say

[sepharious]

No more squeaky sex!

C'mon, it's Reuters we're talking about...

[Anonymous Coward]

...it's just a photoshop!

Re:boring

[Anonymous Coward]

Surprisingly, you can do that! http://www.hfml.ru.nl/froglev.html

It still needs bedclothes

[cerberusss]

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"

Scary!

[Nuffsaid]

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!

Ejection

[BrynM]

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.

Underwhelming

[aschoeff]

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

Re:Underwhelming

[grimJester]

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.

Re:boring

[nacturation]

I thought for a moment that the sleeping person himself would be magnetically suspended.

Make sure your multivitamin supplement has lots of iron.

Obligatory cold water note

[Flying pig]

I suggest, before post on this subject, you need to do some research in the following subjects:

• AC induction heating
• jewellery materials
• Girls

Probably in that order, since research into the second item might help with research into the third item.