"It's Full of Stars"

We can fall asleep, but now we can try to sleep without falling, as:

[a] young Dutch architect has created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million).

Janjaap Ruijssenaars took inspiration for the bed -- a sleek black platform, which took six years to develop and can double as a dining table or a plinth -- from the mysterious monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 cult film "2001: A Space Odyssey."

I worry, though: if I get on top of the thing, will I suddenly fall through a portal in the space-time continuum, experience a tediously long psychedelic light show, and emerge eating a lovely dinner on a strange planet, before ultimately growing old and then evolving into a star child?

If so, it seems like rather a lot of trouble for a bed.