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Tru Form Tiny, the firm behind the Kootenay, recently completed a new towable dwelling called the Urban Payette with Elevator Bed. As its name suggests, the standout feature of this interesting tiny house is its elevating bed, which provides a flexible multipurpose space.
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People can be pretty picky about their pillows. Not only do folks prefer a different softness-to-support ratio, but that preference can change night to night. Now, a French startup has developed the Wopilo, an indecisive-sleeper’s dream pillow that’s soft on one side and firm on the other.
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It's hard to resist the temptation of the snooze button some mornings, but a masochistic new alarm clock may help you kick the habit. When the AlarmShock goes off, you have two minutes to unlock a wrist-worn bracelet and dock it on the device – or face an electric shock.
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As many parents will know, getting a teenager out of bed can be an impossible task. Thanks to furniture rental firm Furlenco, such trials may be about to get much harder. Its Pod merges a bed, lamp, flat screen TV and speaker system into one piece of funky millennial furniture.
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My mother would call it the height of laziness, on par with getting food delivered or using a remote control for the telly, but there is now a device called Smartduvet that takes any duvet and turns it into a bed that makes itself.
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While babies are great in most ways, they're not exactly conducive to getting a full night's sleep. Realizing this, pediatrician Dr. Harvey Karp joined forces with designer Yves Béhar and a team at MIT's Media Lab to create a solution. The automated Snoo baby bed is the result.
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Unfortunately for restless pooches, these fancy mattresses haven't really made the jump into the animal kingdom. Casper wants to change that with its new Dog Mattress, which takes the latest in bed technology and adapts it for our four legged friends.
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The Smartress is a mattress with an inbuilt "lover detection system" that uses an array of sensors to measure the duration and intensity of any, er, activity undertaken on it, and notifies your phone if anything suspicious is going on.
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The tentmaker iKamper has taken its expertise indoors with the Room in Room indoor bed tent – a modern take on the four poster bed that's designed to conserve a sleeper's heat.
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Bed frames are a pain when you're moving house. They are either big, bulky and difficult to move, or flimsy flat-packs that fall apart after being painstakingly put back together. The new Floyd Bed Frame, however, is aimed at being simple to assemble, easy to transport, minimal and sturdy.
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Furnishing a room can take a lot of time and effort. Austrian architect firm Heri & Salli has eschewed such a laborious approach in favor of using just a single piece of furniture. Its Viennese Guest Bed offers much of the functionality required in a guest room.
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The Luna internet-connected mattress cover integrates Wi-Fi, a microphone and an array of sensors to automatically set the bed's temperature, track the quality of your rest, shut down your lights and stereo, and even kick your coffee machine into action when you wake up.
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