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- InfamousX241, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38Here's a question, if you were to throw off the magnets a bit, wouldn't it violently flip over and crush your body?
- pbeesley1989, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34The air mattress - great for vacuuming underneath; not so great if you have a Roomba!
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25thankgod not one of them were usb powered
- Joeymarshmallow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Rough sex could turn into a freak accident pretty quickly.
- pinky24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23and forget working in bed with your computer
- kokorhekkus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Yeah. And piercings that are made of a magnetic materical might feel a wee bit odd as well since the magnetic field must be rather strong.
- donjaime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Exactly what i was thinking. I used to play with magnets all the time when I was a kid, and I tried many times to build stable levitations from repelling magnets in different configurations, and always ended up with them flipping and snapping.
- flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17I wouldnt put a HDD near that bed.
- donjaime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16mag lev trains are different in that they have guide rails. The repelling force isn't directed in just one directions and isnt between just two opposite poles.They have a stabilizing tension thats actually really secure.
That bed just seems to be floating with a force in only one direction (since the room is so open). Although I could be wrong. - radu79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15That was also my first thought about it :)
Having some magnets levitate on top of eachother requires a very precise allignment, which if disturbed can cause them to crash into eachother. On the other hand, the magnetic levitation trains seem to be pretty safe, so who knows.. - Xorsist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Instead of a ***** blog, how about the real list
http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12This one will be popular among the digg crowd:
http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/inventions/clothing3.html - ziki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9these are all questions that are preventing the production of this bed ;)
- ziki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That loc8tor (shouldn't it just be loc8or) looks like it can easily be replicated. Anyone agree?
- quickgold192, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The description itself says that it is slightly tethered at four ends. Which I presume would keep that from happening.
- affiliate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It costs $1.5 million, i am going to need to sell a youtube like site do buy one of these.
http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/inventions/home2.html - pwnrOiNK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8from time.com:
Air Mattress
Your eyes do not deceive you: that sleek slab levitating in midair is in fact a bed, and it is floating unsupported--though lightly tethered at its four corners--16 in. above the floor. The hovering bed is the daydream of a Dutch designer who says he was inspired by the monolith in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Its secret is a matching set of repelling magnets, built into the bed and the floor below, that's powerful enough to support almost 2,000 lbs. The magnetic fields are supposed to be perfectly safe for sleepers, but you're advised to take off your earrings before vacuuming underneath.
Inventor: Janjaap Ruijssenaars
Availability: Now; $1.5 million
To learn more visit universearchitecture.com - donjaime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think I might have a hunch as to how they might be doing this.
Magnetic force is inversely proportional to distance. Meaning the smaller the separation, the stronger the repulsion up to a certain limit. If each corner has a magnet with say... North facing down (at a slight skewed angle to give a sideways force)... You can place a powerful set of upward facing north magnets clustered together near the "center" of the mattress embedded in the floor. You would also need a properly tuned down force to keep the mattress from going too far up by doing the same in the roof.
This works because any lateral movement is counteracted by an increasing opposite lateral force since the magnets are at skewed angles. The matress itself needs to be stiff since the 4 magnets in it will always want to flip "inwards" to snap to the ground. All these opposing forces should stabilize it a bit. - ringo380, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I like how the original blog title is "Cool inventions", and he changed it to "Cool, amazing inventions" for the digg submission.
- spy1325, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6but what about when y ou wan to re-arrange your room... or when you accadently drop anything metal in the room and it rolls under the bed and is stuck to the floor? and forget about using your laptop in bed.... how do you even move a magent taht big into someones house... and if it runs on electricty, when the power goes out. does your bed fall out of the air with you in it?
- moosekin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6what if you lose the loc8tor?
- justice7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9@kernelhappy
ELECTRO-Magnetic
ELECTRO .... being the key word here.
heh.. electro [[[ insert clip of dancing drunk to electro in shawn of the dead ]]] - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I can see the wheel shovel being kind of annoying. I can't tell how how you are supposed to flip the snow off to the side. Do you just have to tilt the whole wheel? If so, I can imagine it being fairly easy to have the whole wheel tip over on its side, especially with heavy wet snow.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5i wouldnt say the garden watering tool is an amazing invention..
the others are good though - reedreeder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Not if you control your roomba with your macbook [glances at front page of digg]
- cipher64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Guess this takes care of the problem : "though lightly tethered at its four corners"
- ringo380, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I agree that the magnet bed doesn't seem like a very practical invention, unless they have some really good ideas for perfecting (and cheapening) it in the future. It's a pretty cool novelty invention, though. And that's a damn fine loft he's got in that picture.
- Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Here is a digital representation of how the bed is held in place (though the pic kinda looks like ***** though...)
http://www.gadgetgarden.nl/FloatingBed2.jpg - madenosine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@justice7
Where do you see that? From the site:
The object is held up 40 cm by a permanent magnetic force due to the use of neodymium (NdFeB) elements in the floor as well as in the object. - cmiller1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3that's funny because what you used ([b]...[/b]) is NOT HTML
- nroose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ecopod. Great! Use enough electricity in your recycling bin to negate the positive effects of recycling! Whatever happened to stepping on your plastic bottles and cans? Plus, here in CA, and I think in other places, your cans must be intact to get the deposit/redemption.
- sanza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@broomett
I was going to say the same thing.
As a former snow shoveler I have to say that the Wovel looks like it was 'invented' by someone who has never shoveled snow before. There's no way to easily remove the snow from it. - nobody1357, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2air conditioner?
- se7en11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2From the comments in the article: http://www.usbcell.com/ - looks like something promising.
- kernelhappy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I'm trying to figure out how you get that bed up to the penthouse. Last I checked most elevators were made of steel. You might be able to get the bed into the elevator but how would you get it out.
- GrendelT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I saw the Twist and Spout available at The Container Store. Pretty neat...
- ringo380, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The original time magazine article has a larger variety of inventions listed, and this blog just picks a few of those out to comment on, and actually adds one that's not on the original list as well (the "twist and spout").
It's not as bad as some other diggs I've seen where the blog linked to contributes nothing whatsoever to the story. - sammysnake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What if you lose the thing to used to find your keys?
- manifestdata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Sad how people link stuff like this to their blog instead of the original source. Is this the only way your blog gets hits?
- tarmithius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This bed was featured in the latest Popular Mechanics and the article stated the magnetism does not affect anything on top the mattress. Although I would not bring anything like a laptop or MP3 player near it.
- davidestroy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Whenever I'm shoveling my car out it's always with a scraper type shovel. You can't toss to the side with these, and you'd have to be Hercules to do so anyways. The motion is more scoop and chuck forward, the wheel in this invention gives extra leverage to the chucking action. I can see this being big for back yard rinks and such.
- sanza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@DragonAura
Throwing it over your back would involve a HUGE amount of energy (more so than using a regular shovel) and doing a lot of back peddling to turn the 90 degrees. A regular shovel is the more efficient route to a clear sidewalk.
I would expect to see the Wovel advertised at 2 in the morning much like the hair removal processes for women to shave their legs. You know, the ones where the women hack at their legs with a regular razor, throw the razor when they start to bleed and then look at the camera with a pleading look that says "I can't work a razor!" - ChewyBass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It should carry a warning that any Ipod, thumbdrive, laptop or computer that comes near it will definitely be wiped clear of data.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why would you buy an "amazing twist and spout" that costs $10.99 when you could buy a normal cheap watering can for 5 bucks.. what a useless invention, and it got on that site?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Invent a thing to find the loc8or (call it the loc9er) attach it to your keys.
- keesj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Damn it.. they keep stealing my ideas. A couple of months ago we had a think of products for older people. Some time ago one of these ideas was developed by HP and now the primary idea is developed too :/ (Loc8or). Although my idea (well it became "our idea since it was developed in a group") is a lot better. As some of you guys pointed out, you're screwed up if you lose the Loc8or thing.
Anyway, I guess I'll have to patent my ideas in the future :/ - Technopope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Click on "learn more" and you will learn this bed doesn't exist past an artist's rendering and a 1:10 scale model.
The bed could most likely not be built full sized as shown to operate in a safe manner. - ch33sehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Click on "learn more" and you will learn this bed doesn't exist past an artist's rendering and a 1:10 scale model.
The bed could most likely not be built full sized as shown to operate in a safe manner."
Doesn't say that anywhere in the "learn more" site. - DragonAura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wouldn't you just be able to rotate yourself around the wheel (i.e. rotate the whole machine laterally) about 90 degrees so that you're facing sideways to where you once were, and then throw the snow over your back?
- Confusinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, cool, amazing title.
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