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szdaily -> Kaleidoscope
Man creates the ultimate morning alarm
     2015-August-6  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    A BRITISH inventor has created the ultimate Wallace and Gromit device for anyone who struggles to get up in the morning — a high voltage ejector bed.

    Colin Furze, one of the experts in Sky 1 show “Gadget Geeks,” built the bespoke bed in his garage at home in Stamford, Lincolnshire, before filming himself testing it out.

    The former plumber was approached by coffee company Taylors of Harrogate to create the video, which Furze admits was one he had been wanting to do for a while.

    Furze made the frame of the bed using strong aluminum, so that it would be stable once powered up and used to fire him into the air.

    He attached an air compressor to two pipes with solenoid valves on the end — all of which was assembled safely under the bed.

    He then created two large pistons, which were used to lift the bed into the air at different speeds with the flick of a switch.

    “I ask people to give me ideas for inventions in my videos and lots of people wanted me to make an ejector bed,” Furze said.

    “Taylors of Harrogate approached me to make a video and I suggested the idea as it was something I wanted to create myself.”

    Furze then got to work assembling the bed from scratch in his garage before eventually testing it out in front of a bouncy castle for safety.

    “I was a little anxious as to whether it would be powerful enough, but if you put it on full power it would pummel you against the wall and kill you,” he said.

    The inventor then moved his double bed from his room and replaced it with the ejector bed.

    “I have a very tolerant misses — we were sleeping on the floor in front of the bed for a week while the filming was going on,” Furze said.

    “I had to warn the neighbors too as when it goes off it makes a lot of noise — living next to me can be a bit chaotic.”

    (SD-Agencies)

    

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