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Sleeping position is a matter of personal preference,
largely influenced by the mass of the individual; width of
shoulders and relative hardness/softness of the bed.
UBCo's new Levitation Bed means you need no longer
worry
about the usual problems of sleeping position.
We take you away
for a little holiday at an undisclosed
location in the Bahamas. There, at our private surgical
clinic, we insert around 1,000 rare earth magnets under
your skin*. We also issue you with a mattress protector
filled with similar magnets and clearly marked so you
don't apply it to the bed upside down.**
*This will mean, of course, you should avoid all iron and
steel objects for the rest of your life, unless you want to
get about clanking and rusting. Avoiding CAT, PET &
MRI scans would also be a good move.
**If you should accidentally fit it up the wrong way on
your bed then it's likely you'll be wearing it for the rest of
time, from the moment you first lie down upon it.
Diamagnetic levitation.
http://www.youtube....watch?v=A1vyB-O5i6E
[MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 13 2012]
Meissner Effect
http://en.wikipedia...iki/Meissner_effect
Very cool ... [8th of 7, Jul 13 2012]
A not entirely unrelated idea
Electromagnet_20Mattress
[hippo, Jul 14 2012]
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Can someone please help me uncross my legs? |
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Various people have had magnets implanted (usually
in their fingers) for fun. |
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But, why not simply use diamagnetic levitation?
<link> |
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I'd be interested to see what diamagnetic levitation
does to the iron in a human's blood, if it takes a 10
Tesla coil to levitate a small frog. |
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It would also be fun to watch the "I'm wearing a
vaguely magnetic bracelet to cure my AIDS, arthritis,
haemorrhoids and common cold" gullible crowd, when
you turned on the magnets and blew away their
misconceptions. |
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//interested to see what diamagnetic levitation
does to the iron in a human's blood// |
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Frogs have haemoglobin too. It won't have any
effect. |
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Also, don't discourage the wearers of magnetic
bracelets. That is what natural selection is for. |
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Why not just immerse the customer in liquid helium until the Meissner effect is sufficient ? |
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Won't this be less like "sleeping on a cushon of air" and more like *sleeping on a thousand vertically mounted dowels* except that the pressure from these dowels is happening under your skin and they're trying to flip over? |
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Moreover, it will not work, without some sort of
lateral containment. |
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[Ubie], you should tell them they're leaving you too
long between exercise breaks. |
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I think you might be right, [Max]. The ideas are
getting a little dark, aren't they? |
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A little, but not excessively so; not enough to
justify altering your medication again … |
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//The ideas are getting a little dark,// Just a tad. I
think you hit a nadir with the fishing hook guy. |
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On the other hand, if you post a few kitten-based
ideas it'll all average out. Plus it'll annoy [8th]. |
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