Afloat mattress7/19/2023 ![]() It was also intended to go inside a hard-sided bed frame to keep the bed from expanding too much laterally. It featured a coil for warming the bed so the water wouldn't get cold, and it was lined to prevent leaks. He called it the "Pleasure Pit." So, so much for avoiding those sexual implications. It was a large mattress filled with water, and it could be used as either a bed or a kind of gathering space that you could have in your living room. Narrator: Needless to say, neither one of those really worked out, but Charlie came up with another design that was a hit. Hall: It was corn starch that was used to thicken cherry pies. Now, before settling on water, Charlie tried to make a chair filled with Jell-O and another with liquid corn starch. In the same way that some people like firm mattresses and others like it soft, it ultimately comes down to personal preference. But research is nonconclusive as to whether or not waterbeds help alleviate aches and pains. So as you move, water fills the gaps, and every curve of your body gets equal support. Narrator: The key concept of the waterbed is displacement. Hall: Famous furniture designers like Eames and Mies van der Rohe and people like that had signature chairs, but I think they were more a sculptural effort, often, than something that really analyzed comfort. ![]() His idea was to create furniture that could form to the contours of a person's body without creating pressure points. The waterbed was part of Charlie's thesis project at San Francisco State University. Narrator: That's Charlie Hall, the man who invented the waterbed.
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