Wrong link, should be https://ikea.today/rognan-robotic-furniture-for-small-space-...
How does a wrong link get this many upvotes?
Rognan robotic furniture for small space living
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#32Why would it need to be robotic? If the friction on those tracks is low enough, then it should be possible to move the whole setup by hand.
Getting the friction down far enough that they could get the thing rolling would also mean low enough friction to store a ton of momentum and roll it over someone's foot. This thing probably masses ten times as much as any manually-actuated compact furniture I've seen.
On top of that, consider accessibility. I'd be mostly fine hauling this around, but I know some people that weigh literally half what I do and others with joint or coordination issues. They would have trouble.
Finally, this system is probably going to last way longer. Humans are really awful at using things carefully, while a mechanical engineer with some servos can control exactly where the force is. The "grease the rails and push" plan is great for getting it started, but then you've dumped a bunch of energy into the system and it'll have to be dissipated by running the thing into a physical stop, which is a recipe for vibration and stress that'd shake it to pieces in months. A controlled system can move the unit smoothly and carefully slow it down at the end of travel. I bet this is cleanly in Vimes Theory of Boots territory.
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#33“Hey Siri, retract the bed into the rear of the kitchen wall and spin the bathroom 180°.”
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#34I've started to sleep on the floor (better said, on two or three blankets on the floor) a year ago because I've read somewhere it helps with back aches. The first week was weird and uncomfortable, but I got used to it quickly. I've never slept that well (frequent sleepless nights before switchting to the ground) and my aches almost vanished. I got rid of my bed since I didn't need it anymore and realized how much spa…
Do you sleep in the same spot every night? I'm chuckling at the idea of you getting tired and just picking a random bit of floor within your house to lie down.
You have to bless the spot by circling it three times first.
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#35I've started to sleep on the floor (better said, on two or three blankets on the floor) a year ago because I've read somewhere it helps with back aches. The first week was weird and uncomfortable, but I got used to it quickly. I've never slept that well (frequent sleepless nights before switchting to the ground) and my aches almost vanished. I got rid of my bed since I didn't need it anymore and realized how much spa…
I slept on the floor for 6 years, only getting a bed several months after I bought my house. No furniture either other than two fold out tables for old Unix work stations and a bean bag.
It’s an excellent method of birth control; no bed that is. The work stations don’t help either.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Stockholm and other cities in Europe, people are more than happy to live in tiny apartments around 30sqm that look like the one in the video. Examples in the best areas of Stockholm downtown: https://www.hemnet.se/bostader?location_ids%5B%5D=925970&loc...
until there is 0 risk of a fire on apartment X spreading to apartment Y, I don’t think I could rest easy in an apartment with all of my stuff.
Modern building standards make it extremely likely a fire cannot pass between units (you can never realistically entirely remove it - people occassionally do things like hang sheets off balconies or store tanks of fuel etc). This is before we talk about how many fires are put out by fire brigades before they've fully destroyed a single unit.
Honestly - the risk of a fire in your own apartment is drastically higher than the risk of it being engulfed in a fire caused outside of it.
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#37I can't be the only one that lol'ed when they didn't dive into bed together. I see what you did there, IKEA.
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#38I've started to sleep on the floor (better said, on two or three blankets on the floor) a year ago because I've read somewhere it helps with back aches. The first week was weird and uncomfortable, but I got used to it quickly. I've never slept that well (frequent sleepless nights before switchting to the ground) and my aches almost vanished. I got rid of my bed since I didn't need it anymore and realized how much spa…
The biggest problem I have with sleeping on floor is that I have to literally walk on the mattress or blanket in order to lie down or get up, which is just so icky to me.
If that is strange you'd find it stranger to know that I am Indian and sleeping on floor is both tradition and sometimes compulsion due to poverty (though I was never poor). I was fine with it all these years and don't know what changed recently.
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#39I've started to sleep on the floor (better said, on two or three blankets on the floor) a year ago because I've read somewhere it helps with back aches. The first week was weird and uncomfortable, but I got used to it quickly. I've never slept that well (frequent sleepless nights before switchting to the ground) and my aches almost vanished. I got rid of my bed since I didn't need it anymore and realized how much spa…
I slept in a sleeping bag on a stone tile floor for 3 weeks as a student when my furnishings hadn't arrived yet. When my bed got there, I still reverted to the floor the first few nights a I had so gotten used to it. I think I could have gone your path, but did not because I required (some) more cleaning (dust on a hard floor is more noticeable), and admittedly out of convention/habits.
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#40I've started to sleep on the floor (better said, on two or three blankets on the floor) a year ago because I've read somewhere it helps with back aches. The first week was weird and uncomfortable, but I got used to it quickly. I've never slept that well (frequent sleepless nights before switchting to the ground) and my aches almost vanished. I got rid of my bed since I didn't need it anymore and realized how much spa…
How does that affect your romantic relationships? I imagine you're single since you don't mention a co-living situation which would otherwise be relevant. I imagine taking a girl home you without a bed might not be ideal.
Also, does it affect your ability to sleep on a regular bed without issues?