Floating Magnetic Bed

August 8, 2006 – 5:02 pm |

Now this is cool…

floating_bed.jpgA young Dutch architect has created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million).

Janjaap Ruijssenaars 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.”

Magnets built into the floor and into the bed itself repel each other, pushing the bed up into the air. Thin steel cables tether the bed in place.

[Source: Yahoo! News]

Real real cool, huh?

I remember back when I was in high school, in physics class, I was quite fascinated by all the stuff surrounding magnetic energy and all; I would keep thinking about all the different cool things we could do using magnets and electrically generated magnetic fields. In my head, I worked out ways we could use it for transportation (trains, cars), lifting and hanging stuff, and a bunch of other cool stuff.

So now when I see some of the things I thought about coming true in real life or even portrayed in movies, it feels great that I thought of them too quite a time ago and figured out how it all could be done.

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  • http://swifty.blogsome.com swifty

    it’s the same case with me :-) , I thought about means of transport having magnetic power as driving force,or objects like roller’s which run “by itself” ;-) ,anyway the cost shown in the article is very expensive,so dreams,dreams,…

  • http://solyzed.blogspot.com Soly Zed

    You surely have heard of the “Transrapid” (http://www.transrapid.de/cgi-tdb/en/basics.prg?session=824bec0a44d98b1e&a_no=40 ), a german invention which was exported to China.

  • http://3oth3outh.blogspot.com ^oth

    U’re a genius man :P
    Hope there is no medical side effects :D

  • http://www.subzeroblue.com MMM

    Swifty, well good to see there’s someone else who shares my passion for magnetic energy :)
    As for the price, well it’s always expensive when something is first invented, but then the price goes down slowly.

    Soly, yep, I have heard of the maglev trains, and it was a combination of happiness and heartbreak when they were introduced, happiness because I was proud to have thought about it too at an early age, heartbroken because someone else did it and not me :)

    Oth, well the article does say that people with piercings should avoid getting into the magnetic field between the floor and the bed :P

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