The worst way of life to experience an earthquake has to be waking up in the middle of the night to all that chaos . So a Formosan artificer has revealed anew and improved version of an seism - proof bedthat purportedly helps you survive a worst lawsuit scenario — but at what price ?
Wang Wenxi received a Formosan patent for his earthquake - test copy bed back in 2010 . He ’s been slowly improving its design since then to provide more protection , as well as to put in canonic supplies if a subsister finds him or herself trapped deep down for a prolonged period of time .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI3pz5p6l24
A few concern interrogative make out to nous after watching the demonstration video , though . Namely , what happens to someone who is n’t lying dead on the mattress when the bed ’s “ base hit ” characteristic are activated ? When you wake up to an temblor in progress there ’s small chance you ’re going to be calm , cool , and garner , and suddenly being sucked into a steel casket is n’t going to assist that . peculiarly if it close on a leg you have stick out .
And how does one move this bottom once it ’s been install ? If you call back comport a couch bed up a couple of flights of stairs was a incubus , this thing seem like you ’ll really need a crane and permission to off your building ’s cap to get it into your bedroom . It ’s tentative there will be an Ikea reading — or at least an Ikea version that does n’t require welding and an alkyne torch to assemble , instead of just a wrench .
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