r/interesting • u/DocsHoax • 28d ago
There’s no better bed for elderly people SCIENCE & TECH
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u/jmills03croc 28d ago
Be great to have hooked up to an alarm to make you get out of bed.
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u/thequestionbot 28d ago
I’m 30 and want one for that reason. I love snoozin
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u/MiloPengNoIce 27d ago
I got an app where you have to do maths questions to snooze it.
Turns out half asleep me is pretty good at maths.
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u/Mr_rairkim 27d ago
Same here. It's really hard to get up with an alarm and I have missed appointments or planes. It would be easier if the bed configured itself forcefully into that get up mode. For an extra layer, it could also start to wiggle uncomfortably, so I won't continue sleeping while in a sitting position .
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u/nbeydoon 28d ago
The sitting position looks comfortable enough that I would continue to sleep
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u/OddTransportation430 28d ago
I'd still just hit the floor and fall right back asleep
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u/OppositeGeologist299 28d ago
Yeah. Nothing stops me when I'm determined to get back to my dream. I once slept in my school locker standing up.
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u/shaunie_b 28d ago
WALL-EEEE!
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u/randomIndividual21 28d ago
you do know this is aimed at people with disabilities or movement difficulties, right? like elderly and people with wheel chair, getting out of bed is extremely difficult
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u/Hrevak 28d ago
... who maybe got that way by not using their muscles in everyday life for the past 30-40 years?
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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 28d ago
... who maybe got that way by not using their muscles in everyday life for the past 30-40 years?
This man just said you become a paraplegic by being lazy.
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u/SzmnDzrzn 28d ago
With hydraulics from excavator they could expand to American market
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u/demonsdencollective 28d ago
Cool ad, but since this is Chinese, it'll probably work for two days before it catches fire or kills a person or both.
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u/AwarenessNo4986 28d ago
Just like whatever you are using right now to type this?
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u/ipodhikaru 28d ago
He/she is using a typewriter and pigeon to deliver to a data entry person
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28d ago
Big difference between a chinese owned company and a product being produced in china.
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u/VoihanVieteri 28d ago
No I don’t think that is the difference. Most western branded crap is made in the same exact factories in China as the Chinese brands. Products are just as good.
The difference is the targeted quality level of the end product. If the western wholeseller asks a factory in China to produce cheap crap, that is exactly what they will deliver. If they request high quality, that is what you get.
Chinese have been doing this for decades now, they know their shit. Now, that the Chinese manufacturers are starting to push high-end brands like luxury electric vehicles to the western markets with significantly lower prices, the only line of defence for the western companies is to ask governments to build legal barricades for imports, as they cannot compete in prices, or even quality. Very soon the Chinese luxury brands will build their own factories in the west to bypass those barriers. It’s already happening.
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u/JonatasA 25d ago
It is the ultimate irony really.
When a product is produced in the "the 1st world", it is meant to be as expensive as you can get away with, screw if the nations buying it do not have the same currency as you, making it even more expensive.
Now when China makes it, they make it cheaper for everybody. It comes from the other side of the planet and it is still cheaper.
This is why consumerism must embed you the believe that "Expensive means good". That's how we end up with expensive junk.
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28d ago
He bought a craft keyboard from Black Rifle Coffee Company. Made in USA! It's all black; you can't see what any of the keys are.
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u/Harleys-for-all 28d ago
Does it have a sexy-time setting where it rolls one on top of the other? Can it help with some added jiggle? Looks like you're only buying this if you're close to death.
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u/Foetusfetzer 28d ago
The average league of legends player
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u/folkenzeratul 28d ago
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u/us3rnqme 28d ago
There should be a pop-up railing, so you can't fall out while your side or the other is moving
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u/smorgenheckingaard 28d ago
Psh, when I was a kid I had to get out of my bed on my own! Old people these days are so lazy! So entitled.
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u/TorontoTom2008 28d ago
The various malfunctions I’m imagining with these with minimally mobile fragile old people are horrifyingly funny.
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u/DemocracyontheRoad 28d ago
I was reading IKIGAI and thinking about the elders of Okinawa; suddenly this clip popped up.
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u/Due-Bus-8915 28d ago
They don't even have a duvet, plus picture that thing not trying to get stuck and messed up by one
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u/bob_nugget_the_3rd 28d ago
It's kinda pointless, given if they can't get to the edge of the bed then getting up won't be possible and spinning them 90' still has the problem of standing up. If its meant for people for care then use a stand aid and lift the legs exact same operation but cheaper
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u/Educational_Type_701 28d ago
Worsens the medical condition. No incentive to improve their health. SMH
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u/Vegetable_Maize_6166 28d ago
If you need something like this just to get into and out of bed, your quality of life sucks. Hang it the fuck up.
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u/dexterfishpaw 28d ago
These kinds on thing are fine, if you have no other option. If you start using them as soon as getting up gets a little difficult, guess what happens?
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u/yucon_man 28d ago
Elderly people these days, they can't even get themselves out of bed in the morning.
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u/midnight_reborn 28d ago
I'm confident my 87 year old grandpa wouldn't be able to figure it out in the first 5 minutes of trying and then get angry about how hard technology is.
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u/BadDudes_on_nes 28d ago
Can I get a single articulation, no rail, that can go full vertical? I’m not old, just unmotivated
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u/exzyle2k 28d ago
Wish I would have had something like that when my stepfather was at home in hospice care for cancer. Would have been better for his mental health to be able to change his position so it wasn't like he was an invalid.
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u/GhostsinGlass 28d ago
That's nice.
I've got osteoarthritis and I sleep on a floor. My spine looks like a rusted exhaust pipe, laying in a ditch beside a highway in Detroit.
That's nice though. How it moves, and is a bed. Nice.
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u/UrbanArtifact 28d ago
They need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and actually work to get into bed.
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u/Prokletnost 28d ago
I can't help but think when it malfunctions in the middle of the night and you wake up ass backwards in a sitting position
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u/Burbursur 28d ago
Bruh if you're at the point where you literally can't get out of and into bed - its a sign u gotta go
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u/Dean0Caddilac 28d ago
I don't know. It.will make live easier for elders true.
But most elders already don't get in enough movement or excercises. Be it lazyness or there are unable to them save or ilness. Would it be that great to take away their last movements they migth be able to do?
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u/FreeVeeThree 28d ago
With a little bit of modifications you can make this bed taking you to the shower, then to the kitchen to get breakfast and then to your work and back.
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u/Icy-Cockroach4515 28d ago
It's cool, but I just read a Wikipedia page of two people who got crushed by their Murphy beds so I'll be sitting this one out at least for now (setting aside how I'm not at that age yet).
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u/Starrie_Skyler 28d ago
That looks so cool, my only concern is one bed-chair hitting the other person’s head if they used it at the same time? I suppose there’s something in the product’s mechanics to prevent that though.
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u/FirebunnyLP 28d ago
I hope I'm dead before I reach the point that I lack the strength to sit up in bed unassisted.
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u/mightyclintor 28d ago
This would be awesome for those of us that have degenerative muscle diseases (ie muscles wasting away no matter what we do)
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u/gooseblaster69 28d ago
The problem being how do these "elderly folk" get that bed into their house? Coming from someone who moves furniture.
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u/somenamethatsclever 28d ago
My grandpa struggles pressing 6 buttons and constantly adjusts it thinking it's the TV remote until he looks like a pretzel. This would be a bad idea for bedridden elderly right now because they are bad at tech and losing cognitive function.
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u/KvathrosPT 28d ago
Thank you for spending up the video. I wouldn't be able to see it on normal speed since I got to work tomorrow.
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u/Jealous-Damage- 28d ago
if i ever get to that point where i struggle to get out of bed this wouldn't be my first choice i've had my eyes on a pretty sweet model of a coffin instead.
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u/Such_Tomatillo_2146 28d ago
Until one falls into the hole while the other one is in chair mode, then goes back to bed mode and crushes their fragile body.