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Magnetic Floating Bed

By David Ponce on 07/03/06 • 81 Comments

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By David Ponce

It’s the second time today that we look at a piece of furniture that’s made by the Dutch. This one, however, kicks some serious butt.

Architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars spent the last six years working on the development of a magnetic floating bed. A scale model of it was presented at the Millionaire Faire (I’m getting this from a very confusing Babel translation, so anyone, please chime in) recently. The bed simply floats in the air, above magnets, can carry up to 900 kilos and is held in place through four very thin tethers.

Of course, owning the ultimate babe magnet (Get it?) will not come cheap: the scale model alone costs 115,000 euros, while the real deal is expected to cost as much as 1,200,000 euros.

[Magnetic Floating Bed] VIA [The Raw Feed]

Update: More info on this bed’s been dug up. There is a website, UniverseArchitecture (click on “Floating Bed”). There are more pictures and also the claim that through the use of “steel plates and air”, magnetic forces are greatly reduced where not needed, allegedly making it safe for your electronics, credit cards, etc.

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  • Francisco C

    magnets are coooooooooooooooooooooool!

  • Francisco C

    Sorry about prevous comment ,but when I saw a floating bed i thought it was
    REALLY COOL!

    After i read your comments I was torn.

    I do beleive this a new break in magnetic tech.

    But it is stupid these people aren’t worried about a starving child’s life so much as looking cool.

    But hey what do I know im only in high school!

  • arieO

    I had the honor to spent some days with JJ and he is a perfect guy. Not after money but a person who is interested in greations to make the people understand that the world is moving on in time. But most off all he is a great man.

  • Jake

    WITCHCRAFT, BURN THEM

  • http://www.designerlinen.info/ Bedman

    The magnetic field here must be way more powerful than one from blurtooth and mobile gadgets. I would not want to sleep in it!

  • just-me

    do you people know anyting about magnets ? I would say you all are from USA, at least your IQ number is. Electric magnet is dangerous, but not nature magnet, we find this all over the world, in different kind of materials, earth is one hughe magnet, what do you think how compas works ? this is simple magnet and does not work on electricity. It is safe, but i don’t understand the price, and what it’s usage, if he would made it hover without strings holding it to ground, that would be really great, but this way ? anyone cn make this bed, buy alot of magnets, concate them together, put on ssoma large plate, attach string on them and floor, and voila, finished. this is stupid creation, and useless. lol, jake, inkvisition— and sorry for my bad english, it’s my like 5th language or something.

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  • Moxie_Maven

    Dreamy. Gotta have it, so burn me. I must be a witch.

  • Oh! Brother!

    When a Soccer Mom buys one all of U will run out to store buy one too! Huh…

  • http://www.dbm-creative.com John Whittington

    If it’s that bleeding good how come I can’t find a real photo of the damn thing instead of a poor artists impression?

  • vijay

    can i know ,according to what exact principle it works?can u give a very clear view of what material u have used in this?can we make skate board which floates and moves?

  • vijay

    can we make skate board which floates and moves? i think its the same principle behind it also

  • akin

    sir can u explain thge principle with which it works

  • Germ

    wow…I have a really good idea…you could put a metal thing on the end of your penis so you never go flacid…you would please your wife for hours!

  • Shvey

    wow, it would rip the nails outta the floor, then shatter some NeoDymium, then become unstable, and kill the top 3 floors of whatever building he’s on. I’ve tested the fields for my 1/8 x 1/4 cylinders. I can affect compass’s from 3 feet. to align so many of such strong magnets, you would have to house them in some super rigid platform, else they will repel themselves due to alike poles and throw one corner magnet out to the side until it flips and kills someone.

    Extended magnetism would probibly make you crazy, take all the metals out of your body through the skin, probibly give you ITP (search wiki) and make that broken bone metal plate discomforting. I don’t care how cool it looks, it’s unbelievably unpractical, any for of paramagnetic material is going to fly at it.

    As for the earth being a large magnet so these are safe for you…… how much gauss is in your living room right now…… multiply that by about 1,000,000,000^99999 and sleep on it. due to your chemical make-up and the processes which take place in your body (digesting, producing urine and inceline, filtering your blood). Somewhere along the line your going to slip molecules, your going to start bleeding from the inside, disintegrate your organs, but probibly just destroy your nervous system first. Magnetism can be safe in smaller doses. Thats why electromagnets are dangerous….. they’re stronger… we made them that way BUT we can turn off electromagnets. your dust will settle and never some off, if you lose your jeans…. you lose the button/zipper/belt forever.

    so, enough about the bad things.

    I like the design, it’s very upper-class, the idea of floating on a bed with wierd amounts of tension would probibly be bad for the spine, but so are water beds.

    Someone should put a big weight on one side(closest to window) cut the tethers at the same time (blasting cord?) and watch that thing flip out the window, crash into the street (if it doesn’t kill the structure of the building) and erase wall street.

  • Jessica

    Elaine, you are just to funny. Don?t ever loose your sense of humor.
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  • boohoo

    that looks preetty kool but soo fake..

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    How the heck do you get up?!?!??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????????????

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    이홈폐이지 엄청 신기한거 많다…영어열심히 배워서 읽어봐야지.
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  • http://www.randomas.com OZ Random As

    Cool, like some thing off Star Trek.
    Matty needs a bed like that after he’s been filming with us.
    See ya

    OZ

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  • michael dwayne bennett

    hi you take amagnet at a junk yard one that is electrict that picks up cars or any steel flip the polarity a round so instead of picking you are pushing the object away now take the letter u the shape of it now widen it now you have a cradel for a person to sleep in it now you need a suit for the person to wear or a blanket to sleep on ether has to be on or under the person and it has to be of a flexable material magnet now the electricalmagnetical waves that are produced are controled by a plus nob that increases the pulaity acording to the persons weight . now if you cant figure this out then you dont have any reason to gripe whith all the tecnolagythat we have nothing is imposible take the tv its oreginal designewas for telaportation and that was in the 1900s what do you think they have now the wind up flashlight was given by my dad to matel toy company in the 70s because some one was going to steel it iam a truck driver and ideals come to me going down the road and in my sleep.juct like the boomarang freezby thta was also a dream i should have acted on it now wamoo toy com has it what iam trying to say is ideals are money and to think i was going to approch shune o grady the ex pro boxer in oklahoma city at his bed company but never did thke this info and run whith it have fun

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    I thing; We can do This for 100000 euros in Poland. Is some sponsor interesting?

  • www.wood-roll.pl

    I thing; We can do This for 100000 euros in Poland. Is some sponsor interesting?

  • http://www.santaferanch.com/category/santafe.western_decor.western_bedding/ Western Bedding

    1,200,000 euros for this magnetic “floating” bed? lol I could use that money for a house, oh well, spend some on a charity, etc and to think of it, it's not at all floating because it is under a magnetic field. you can consider that it's still NOT floating because of that :D

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    This floating bed looks really great. I wonder what makes this bed float?

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    now that's magical!

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  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EYG4OVYAMCS7BK66G346VWNI5E Aaron

    That would be beautiful in my house! Of course, I don't have the same floor to ceiling windows…..but it would still look great!

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