Starry Night Bed Lacking Only a Toilet

While every hair on my pasty body bristles at the thought of spending upwards of $50k on a bed, I have to admit that if you ignore the way this "Starry Night" bed from Leggett and Platt looks, its functionality sounds really appealing. For one, it's a full-blown media center, with a DVR, surround sound, and a 1080p LCD projector that shines out of the headboard. Speakers rise up out of the footboards.

But it's the bed functions that really get me, with mattresses that monitor your restlessness and provide you monthly reports, a "snoring sensor" that will raise your mattress by seven degrees to open up your windpipe, and built-in heaters and Peltier coolers that can keep your mattress anywhere from 68 to 117 degrees.

When I retire I want to spend my remaining years convalescing on just such a bed, preferably with one of those air tables they use for burn victims that suspend them an inch or so over the surface, the better to prevent bedsores and to give my team of nurses easy access.

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[#1 posted by Tommy , January 7, 2008 5:30 AM]

I have a snoring sensor. It's called my wife.

And my electric blanket was $40.

[#2 posted by dculberson , January 7, 2008 7:13 AM]

Add in a personal robot that can fetch beer for you, and it's a complete package!

[#3 posted by Ste , January 7, 2008 8:10 AM]

Wouldn't the prospect of your partner being unconciously and automatically angled seven degrees when s/he starts to snore be a *little* more distracting (read: f*cking terrifying) than snoring itself?

[#4 posted by coldspell , January 7, 2008 2:06 PM]

wheels, please?

[#5 posted by elsmiley , January 7, 2008 2:36 PM]

#2, maybe one of these would do the trick: http://nexus404.com/Blog/2007/07/16/beer-serving-robot/.

[#6 posted by demidan , January 7, 2008 3:19 PM]

OOOh, you can sleep snore free, and slow roast a victory ham on the other side~! What more could you ask for?

[#7 posted by noen , January 7, 2008 7:52 PM]

The machines are slowly getting us used to the tanks.

[#8 posted by vjinterkosmos , January 8, 2008 12:26 AM]

Solid natural fiber futon, no pillow, a number of thin blankets you can layer according to temp... Good for your back (forces your muscles to adapt), and you'd be left with enough dough to cover every wall of your bedroom with HD projectors with MacPros for a complete VR bedroom.