E-Mail | E-Mail Newsletters | RSS
Associated Press
Company Unveils Bed With Web, iPod, DVR
The Associated Press 01.10.08, 7:51 AM ET
Popular Videos
Blu-Ray Here to Stay
Clinton and McCain Take New Hampshire
Bill Gates Big Talk
Fans Demand Journeyman
Ultimate TVs
Related Quotes
LEG 15.99 + 0.00
Most Popular Stories
The Biggest Celebrity Paydays Of 2007
America's Most Lustful Cities
Worst States for Speeding
The NFL's Coldest Games
How to Choose Gifts to Re-Gift or Resell
You're probably used to having a big-screen TV or a cell phone charger in the bedroom, but diversified manufacturer Leggett & Platt Inc. wants to take things a step further by bringing tech gadgets right into your bed.
The company plans to sell a tricked-out place of rest it calls the Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed, mattresses included. The bed, which was on display at the International Consumer Electronics Show, incorporates features like wireless Internet connectivity, an iPod dock, a surround sound speaker system, LCD projector, dual temperature controls and DVR capability.
Leggett & Platt said the bed also comes with a vibration-detection feature that will elevate that half of the bed 7 degrees if a user is snoring and then return to the original position once the snoring stops.
The company expects the Starry Night to be available in the first half of 2009 for $20,000 to $50,000 depending on which features a buyer chooses.
"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, group executive vice president for Leggett & Platt's bedding division, said Tuesday at CES.
