A Street Tech reader hipped us to this Reuters story about an amazing bed designed and built by Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars:
“[He] took inspiration for the bed — a sleek black platform, which took six years to develop and can double as a dining table or a plinth — from the mysterious monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 cult film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.'”
The bed is held in place by strong magnetic forces from magnets in the floor below and magnets in the Monolith…er… bed.
I like this last paragraph:
“Although people with piercings should have no problem sleeping on the bed, Ruijssenaars advises them against entering the magnetic field between the bed and the floor. They could find their piercing suddenly tugged toward one of the magnets.”
I guess you want to make sure you take your belt off before getting near the bed, too.
[Thanks, Ron!]