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Missouri manufacturer Leggett & Platt Inc. has taken things to a higher level with its latest high-tech bed that offers not only the best snore less sleep ever, but also brings multimedia enjoyment into your bedroom.
"Consumers told us that they use their beds for much more than sleep. The bed is a place for reading, watching movies, spending time with the kids, listening to music and even folding laundry. There are cars that park themselves and devices programmed to refrigerate and cook our food. But the bed has generally been a passive, inanimate object," said Mark Quinn, group executive vice president of sales and marketing for the bedding division at Leggett & Platt.
The Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed, displayed at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, incorporates features like wireless Internet connectivity, an iPod dock, a surround sound speaker system, an 1080p LCD projector, dual temperature controls and DVR capability.
The surround sound system includes four eight-inch subwoofers, a ribbon tweeter and 2,500-watt amplifier. Any user will be able to store almost 2,000 hours of movies and 400, 000 songs on the bed’s 1.5 terabyte disc storage. The LCD projector will baffle the cinema lovers with its 6,000:1 contrast ratio and 2,000 lumens of brightness.
The Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed is also designed with a vibration detector which elevates half of the bed seven degrees when a user is snoring. The mechanism is able to return the bed in its initial position once the snoring stops.
"I know it sounds like a lot, but you show me somebody that sleeps in a bed with someone that snores; I will show you a person that thinks $20,000 is a very small amount to pay to solve that problem," Mark Quinn said Tuesday at CES.
Quinn also added that the bed was able to monitor and record body movements every night.
“If you spike one night with a lot of tossing and turning, we're able to recognize that and give you advice, such as don't eat spicy foods, drink less caffeine and so on,” Quinn said.
The Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed will run from $20,000 to $50,000, depending on what features customers desire and should be available in the first half of 2009.
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