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Adjustable Bed Ensures You'll Never Have to Sit Up, Ever

by Terrence O'Brien on September 19, 2009 at 05:54 PM

Adjustable Bed is Also a Wheel Chair

We're going to let you in on a little secret. The Switched "offices" don't really exist. It's really just a couple of cubicles (piled high with shipping boxes) that members of the Switched staff occasionally occupy. In reality, most of us rarely leave our beds, much less our homes. The laziness of the blogger breed is unrivaled, so we were understandably excited when we came across the Robotic Bed from Panasonic, set to be demoed at the International Home Care & Rehabilitation Exhibition in Tokyo.

The robot bed basically ensures that you'll never have to move any part of body, below the shoulders, ever again. The bed's overarching canopy hosts a flat screen TV that, in addition to providing entertainment, can control network-connected home appliances and gather feeds from security cameras. We're sure it wouldn't be too much work to get it hooked up to a computer, either. When lying down becomes tiresome, you can simply adjust the incline of the mattress and switch to a sitting position.

What really separates this from the Sleep Comfort Adjustable beds, familiar to all of us thanks to those infomercials, is its ability to turn into a motorized wheelchair. Once brought to the upright position, the mattress simply slides over and out from under the canopy. The robotic bed/chair even has sensors to help you avoid obstacles and people while wheeling about your home.

Of course, this device is actually "meant" for people with physical disabilities. But that doesn't mean a lazy blogger or two shouldn't be able to take advantage of the technology, too, right? Right? [From: Engadget and Panasonic]

Tags: accessibility, bed, health, home, robotic bed, RoboticBed, top

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