Now A Reality: A Working Desk That Easily Converts Into A Twin Bed

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We were interested to learn of this new product evidently from a German company called BLESS: As you can see, it is a desk that converts into a bed.

While you’re waiting for your boss to order this for you, to be delivered along with your next 300 assignments, which are due Friday, you might be amused to learn that our friend, the inventive thinker Steven M. Johnson, proposed just such an object as one of his darkly humorous design conjectures, some years ago.

Below, his version, courtesy of a 2009 piece by Allison Arieff titled “Searching for Value In Ludicrous Ideas.”

The future is here — and it’s ludicrous!

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