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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A young Dutch architect has
\n created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic
\n force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million).<\/p>\n
Janjaap Ruijssenaars took inspiration for the bed — a sleek
\n black platform, which took six years to develop and can double as a dining
\n table or a plinth — from the mysterious monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s
\n 1968 cult film "2001: A Space Odyssey."<\/p>\n
"No matter where you live all architecture is dictated by gravity.
\n I wondered whether you could make an object, a building or a piece of
\n furniture
\n where this is not the case — where another power actually dictates the
\n image," Ruijssenaars said.<\/p>\n
"Magnets built into the floor and into the
\n bed itself repel each other, pushing the bed up into the air. Thin
\n steel cables tether the bed in
\n place.<\/p>\n
"It is not comfortable at the moment," admits Ruijssenaars,
\n adding it needs cushions and bedclothes before use.<\/p>\n
Although people with piercings should have no problem sleeping on the
\n bed, Ruijssenaars advises them against entering the magnetic field between
\n the bed and the floor.
\n They could find their piercing suddenly tugged toward one of the magnets.<\/p>\n
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