Fold-out HDTV pulls out from under the bed
There's very clearly some stop-motion animation going on in this video, indicating pretty strongly this isn't a purely automated solution, but it's still incredible: a pull-out HDTV that folds up and slides under the bed when not in use. There's a lot of problems with the idea, of course — notice that the television has no cables attached to it — but it's still sleeker than mounting a plasma above your bureau.
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I suspected stop motion, or at least a lot of speeding up, as soon as I saw it. The weight of a TV would make that thing a death trap if it moved that fast in real life!
The cat would love to lay on that.
You could change the channels with your toes and keep your blue ray player under your pillow.
Looks like there may be cables hooked up that run through one of the support arms. You can get a decent view of them at the 14 second mark. Now I don't think the cables would last a long time, but with an IR repeater could talk to devices under the bed no problem.
Its surely has some cuts in it - but they did a pretty good job of making the sun stand still through that window on the right if this is stop-motion
Wow, I don't know.. if that's stop motion then they're incredibly good at it. It even has a bounce-bounce at the end of the rotation before folding back down. It's absolutely possible, but something tells me the people hawking a folding HDTV stand probably aren't that well versed in stop motion principles.
I'm willing to say it's probably actually motorized and just really, really expensive and dangerous.
Or you could have the TV simply rise up vertically from a foot-board. A friend of mine was over a guy's house and he had his HD TV rigged to lower electrically as soon as you turned it off. Way cool.
This video clip is well over a year old...
Here's an idea:
mount the flat screen HORIZONTALLY in the ceiling, just above a 2-way mirror mounted on the ceiling.
When not watching Iron Man in HD, the mirror is just a mirror, and can be used to watch 'other things'.
Just don't get overzealous with the sex when the screen is underneath - you wouldn't want to crack that screen...
(dunnright00 aka anonymous)
Uhm, where have you guys been? This video is at least two years old, maybe older.