January 12, 2008
I Can't Stop Laughing
OK. I know it's Saturday, but there is no rest for the wicked in this industry I love. I've been hittin' it hard since about 6:30 this morning.
But I just read an article that has me cracking up. I've read it three times and I just can't stop laughing.
Folks. In 2009 there will be a bed on the market that will retail for between $20,000 and $50,000.
All I can say, is thank GOD my company isn't making it.
Holy crap. Can you imagine, in this economy, with all that is going on, trying to get someone to buy a $20,000 bed?!?! I'm not even gonna THINK about the one that's "fully loaded".
Now....in it's defense, it is pretty cool. They are calling it "The Worlds Smartest Bed". (huh....Navy CPO, maybe the worlds smartest man needs the worlds smartest bed!)
Anyway. here's a bit of the description as it was written in the article.
"...will include high-tech devices that monitor sleep, detect snoring and tilt the bed slightly to prevent it, heat and cool the mattress and project high-definition images on a wall screen."
OK, help with snoring, by detecting it? Uhhhh call me silly but if you're sleeping with someone, my bet is that's already been taken care of. But it is kinda cool that the bed will "adjust" itself to help prevent it. Well, except I think that would be kinda weird to be sleeping away and all of a sudden the bed moves. Yeah.....I'm gonna pass on THAT feature.
Hmm heats and cools the mattress. THAT'S kinda cool. (no pun intended) Except for I kinda LIKE to be cool when I sleep....even in the winter. I wonder if you can disable the heat part?
Project movies on the wall? Well, as long as they weren't "just recorded" wink wink that's alright.
But seriously. $20,000?!?!
Consumers are finally realizing that you get what you pay for. A good mattress is an investment in yourself, your health, you sanity at times. But this? I'm gonna say, at the risk of damaging my future in this industry, that if you SPEND $20,000 - $50,000 I'm past worried about your sanity.......
Like I said, knowing what I know, dealing with what I deal with day in and day out....this is about the FUNNIEST thing I've read in a long time.
Posted by Tammi at January 12, 2008 08:55 AM | TrackBack20 G's??? I'll buy a bale of straw before I'll toss out that kinda ching on a frickin bed...
Posted by: That 1 Guy at January 12, 2008 10:12 AMMy brother in law makes a 40k dollar pool tables out of one piece of wood (not that I would buy one, you can check one of them out on my link where it says support my nephew). There are people out there that have more money then they can spend, the trick is to get them to notice you. Almost out of here, wish me luck hun.
Posted by: Sean at January 12, 2008 01:49 PMSmart or not, I'd pay that much just to stop some of the snoring that goes in in my bedroom!
Posted by: Navy CPO at January 12, 2008 01:59 PMwhoa there, tammy. i think there's already an established lobby to keep high definition snobbery out of the bed, if not the bedroom.
pay extra for it? i predict a tortuous decline in the sex lives of the fugly. hey, someone had to say it.
Posted by: supergurl at January 12, 2008 02:16 PMI'm with T1G on this one...
Sean, all the best to you!
LW
Posted by: Laughing Wolf at January 12, 2008 03:39 PMWonder how the bed handles it when tilting it to stop the snoring of one starts the snoring of the other. You could get dizzy by the time the night was over.
Posted by: dick at January 12, 2008 03:44 PMOK, help with snoring, by detecting it? Uhhhh call me silly but if you're sleeping with someone, my bet is that's already been taken care of. But it is kinda cool that the bed will "adjust" itself to help prevent it. Well, except I think that would be kinda weird to be sleeping away and all of a sudden the bed moves. Yeah.....I'm gonna pass on THAT feature
Yeah, really... My silly butt would end up in the floor, the first time I ever let out a chainsaw snore that I'm famous for. LOL...
Posted by: Pat at January 12, 2008 04:03 PM