#008: Floating Bed

Does your bed satisfy you magnetically? If not, then you might want to consider Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars and his ‘floating bed.’

The bed is suspended entirely by magnets, and ‘floats’ at about 40cm above the ground. Four small tethers hold the bed steady whilst it supports up to 900kg of weight.

It all happens with simple permanent magnets – there’s no trickery here. These must be some incredibly strong magnets, but the bed apparently remains perfectly safe (though we wouldn’t recommend sleeping with earrings in).

Interested? You’ll need a cool $1.5 million to sleep in levitated luxury. We could be saving for a while…