Magical Bed Hovers in Midair with Magnets

Is it safe to use laptops/notebooks, implants, on it? ;)

anonymous coward has a good point. The force available could have turned those screws into shrapnel.

@noah
Didn't you first appear in mesopotamia?

I think you could do it without cables if you had magnets at the edge of the frame oriented horizontally with opposing magnets mounted on 4 x 4s screwed to the lower frame so the bed would be repelled toward a center position between the 4 x 4s. One set of magnets oriented vertically for lift, one set of magnets oriented horizontally for centering.

I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to use cables crisscrossed under the bed to stabilize it without the tripping hazard, with cables running from a screw eye at each corner of the bed to a screw eye on the base below the opposite corner.

Holy hell, I'd have been scared of finger amputation trying to separate those two magnets -- and of screw shrapnel should those have been ejected by the magnets crushing together.

Hubertus Bigend's bed. Tripping hazard, covered. Unnecessary exposure to potentially hazardous magnetic fields, check. Cool factor, off scale.

didn't this first appear at Reddit?

About magnetic fields and cancer:

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/magnetic-fields

From Earnshaw's Theorem, there's no way to use static magnets to cause levitation on their own. You either need active controls or you need some sort of physical support. Otherwise it will slide to the side (or perhaps top/bottom). You can use wires if they are nearly horizontal to prevent that action, or use posts under the bed. It's cooler to point under the bed and point out the lack of support.

You can get around Earnshaw's Theorem with superconductors, if you want to sleep over a large pool of liquid nitrogen. Perhaps someday, with room-temperature superconductors, we'll all be able to sleep on floating beds.

Be prepared to sleep face down if you have fillings.

I would really be impressed if there would be no steel cables necessarry...

I also would have preferred if the cables had been placed under the bed to avoid any tripwire effects...

However i would like to have some of the magnets..