Floating Bed by architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars (Universe Architecture).flv

[ongxizhe]

What's the point? The monster is still gonna hide underneath it..

[boxmonkey1]

I like forward thinking, but what problem does this solve? Instead of legs holding the bed up, he uses cables holding it down. The cables negate any aesthetic benefit, in my opinion. I'd like to see a pair of magnets that are tuned to the weight of the user, so as to not repel each other too much. Just strong enough to elevate the bed and user/users. It would also provide a floating sensation when sat or laid down on. Possibly one central cable to keep the bed centered over the floor magnet.

[watzwrongwichyouu]

So its a giant magnet pushing against a magnetic floor of the same charge, but its tethered down. How did this take 7 years to figure out?

[MrPengwin95]

@watzwrongwichyouu im pretty sure it was to get enough money to buy that big of a magnet, or to find out how to make a magnet keep its charge, because magnets will eventually loose their power.

[watzwrongwichyouu]

@MrPengwin95 True, but if the magnet and the floor keep exchanging electrons, its almost a never ending cycle of power.

[th3cooki3monst3r1]

Wooowww a floating bed *sarcasm voice* I was thinking of that ever since I was younger

[t5239857289578947594]

This reminds me of 2001 a space odessey.

[hollywood1665]

as a bed it doesn't look that comfortable. but i still want it :) as a dining table:)

[dynimite3]

hmmm it took you 6 years to make a fucking 6-8 foot rectangle magnet with strings???? WHAT THE FUCK

[lavacacruz]

That is all interesting, but will it blend?

[Aaprib]

Make sure that you don't have a pacemaker...

[jangofet555]

@Aaprib or put your pants with a metal buckle beside your bed before you go sleep, god what a dumb invention, everything is worth thinking about, but its very limiting

[machman1124]

it took him years of schooling to realize that gravity governs? and why is it that no one actually was able to walk up to the bed and sit down on it in the video? this was stupid and a waste of money.

[silenthunder85]

it's the Monolith from 2001...

[ProductionExposition]

Not a very hard thing to think up for a floating bed. Pretty simple actually.

[ModelOrange]

Obviously not a physicist, gravity is in no way a "power."

[dubblevision]

They could afford to make that ridiculous "bed" but they couldn't afford to add background music to the slides?? Just sayin...

[johnnytwox]

Nothing like waking up in the morning and tripping on one of them cables. A nice start of the day

[startreking2007]

If you've got a pacemaker don't go near this thing,

[austinowens97]

what if you turn POP! you fall

[zlyable]

Put your laptop under it *troll face* :D

[Grlihi]

Who the hell buys this ??

[labobo]

huh use a laptop on several big magnets is he really that stupid ?

The magnetic hard drive disks in the laptop would go bad, you will lose your data

[fanmanabc]

@labobo

at the end he says that the magnetic field is shielded on top of the bed, so its safe use your laptop while in bed

[labobo]

@fanmanabc Yes i did not miss that. It is basically bullshit if you know anything about how a magnetic fields work.

For example what happens to the laptop before it is on top of the bed (while you are carrying it) ?

It's in upper-legs to torso height which is not shielded.

What if the laptop is placed besides the bed on the floor perhaps or on a night stand (which is usually lower than the bed) ?

[fanmanabc]

@labobo yes, i know how magnetic fields work. but im hoping if he spent years designing this thing, he would have thought of that. if not, its a fail =T

[olizish]

It'd hurt if you had a rumpy bumpy on it

[nmcaia]

How do you put on sheets?

[pnarayan1]

It doesn't affect your body at all?......Hmm doesn't our blood contain iron molecules?

[leorris89]

@pnarayan1 We also have sodium but we don't ignite as soon as we touch water. Iron is mostly attached to proteins such as hemoglobin, it's in very small amounts and is also protected by a lot of cells :P

Even Magneto needed to put some extra iron into that guard to be able to extract it from him and that's fiction so...

[1161858]

really it took five years for this a big magnet with a cushion on top

[djedi81]

Really? I'd say its Art.

Make sure you set your wallet on the night stand in your next door neighbors house down the street to reduce the risk of erasing the data stripe on your credit/debit cards. Also, don't use any laptop computers in bed with a platter based hard disk. Based upon the magnet strength required and the cost of modifying your home for the bed, the price is most likely enormous. Here's an idea, go and buy a spring mattress and buy you a new Bugatti Veyron for the same price.

[zippythewildone]

You couldn't use a laptop on that bed, it would destroy your hard drive... That would suck.

[CapAceBeatz]

So why would anyone buy this? And why does this guy seem so nervous talking about it?

[joroma77]

@CapAceBeatz Someone hired his artistic talent and limited engineering skills for 7 years and expects the investment to pay off. This guy knows that only an eccentric fool would buy such an impractical and hazardous bed.

[sorbuato]

magnets gives me head ake, keep it up to take those strings off you might need to use more magnets

[sonicchamps]

i can imagine a fat guy sleeping on one and all strings snap at once and he floats up and gets crushed... GRAVITY DEFY FAIL!!!

[puketinho]

if you hang this bed with 4 hooks on the ceiling, and attached 2 small pipes with the side wall, you will be having the same feeling like this magnet bed, and huundred time cheeper, if you like you can make it little flexible for slightly movements like a swing. to approach a sweet sleep.

[number1234ification]

imagine sex on this bed....

[Idkfawin32]

okay so, 7 years. And you come up with Magnets?

[unholyconfession93]

i saw the part were he put his hand under it but you can also keep control of your hand, what if your entire body rolls under it between the two magnets what would happen?

[BabyEater9000]

"reality turned upside down" yeah, way to bullshit your way through a horrible invention. this shit can kill.

[minativid]

I guess this means that I can't use my laptop on my bed :(

[DontFriendInviteMe]

I have 1/2'x1 1/2" magnets that requires a tool to separate or you can remove a finger by the snap-back. One earthquake or accident, and anyone in this bed would be pulverized into mush. I'm not exaggerating either. Bone would be flattened to pulp, flesh would be smashed to liquid. You would be a puddle of goo between two magnets, not even resembling a human life form.

[ProgMetalSoul]

If the platform can hold a car, I seriously doubt those small strings are going to hold the thing down. I also congratulate them on figuring out how to utilize magnets. 6 years of work has definitely payed off.

[fredwilma1000]

Six years to make? Better put my order in now! P.S I have a Prince Albert..will I be up all night?

[mrchesney100]

OP is a faggot

[mertvak]

imagine u sleeping in that bed and boom 1 string snaps, u are meat

[JCO187]

@mertvak they are probably industrial cables, they won't snap haha

[DanTube2010]

@mertvak it's steel cable which doesn't snap.

[gokarter57275]

@DanTube2010 says who they have and can snap

[YTLyricsMaker]

@mertvak now wouldnt that be a perfect prank?

you know...a friend of yours is sleeping...you come with some scissors and....bam! your friend gets slammed in the face by the roof :P)

hah! it'd be hilarious as he wouldnt be able to get down again, unless you help him. in other words, you can mess with him or just leave him there for the rest of the day :D