Some might call being trapped in a small, airtight box getting buried alive. Others realize that it's a completely rational response to the potential threats in a post-9/11 world. Featuring 1.25" polycarbonate bulletproof plating, the Quantum Sleeper seals you into your mattress in emergency situations. You breathe filtered O2, use the built-in facilities and wait comfortably for the world to not be over. Sound a bit unsettling? No way. Just look at that happy couple basking in their thoughtful preparation, the husband grabbing his wife lovingly, always ready to perform the Heimlich should the opportunity arise. [product via boingboing]
Quantum Sleeper, Rest Well in the Face of Terrorism
9:25 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Mark Wilson
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Ah more products profitting with fear mongering. This fits somewhere in between of the business parachute and your office gas mask.
waking up to a nightmare would be painful
With the bottom folded out that would make the bed somewhere around 10 ft long. My room isn't big enough, and why no baby crib with the same feature?
Some people will make ANYTHING for a buck.
They look abnormally happy about sleeping in this thing.
In a really bad disaster we remain both superpositionally alive and dead inside the Quantum Sleeper until someone opens it up. Especially if you take your cat inside.
The Quantum Sleeper will save the couple from a terrorist, but who will save the Quantum Sleeper from the couple?
Screw the terrorists/kidnappers, I'd be scared of my spouse if they thought this was a good idea.
This is all well and good, but has anyone looked at the thing? no seals, probs not bomb proof, it looks like its made from wood! Until it can sustand a direct hit from a h-bomb, my wallet is satying firmly in my pocket!
I will put this next to my hyperbaric sleep chamber. That way when I am not under threat of attack, I can hop into that for an oxygen rich night of relaxation and dreams.
Rational thinking aside, let's assume we're in the market for a Bio-chemical resitant bed.
Do you really wan't it made of wood? I mean i'm not knocking wood construction, I love wood, but personally when I'm comparing products of this nature I think i'd want something more akin to a spacecraft than a plywood create...
What paranoid idiot would buy this? Where are the gun slits, or the propane powered antipersonnel flame throwers, I'm so disappointed...
@Late_Night: Actually, in my office, we *are* issued gas masks. Of course, since most of us are contractors, and are IT folks, a good portion (including yours truly) sport goatees and beards, so we're all going to die when we can't get a good seal with the mask...
I'd prefer something a little more portable - like this: [www.firstshowing.net]
Personally, I dont WANT to live through civilization-ending bio-checmical (or any kind of) attacks and if someone wants you DEAD that much, this little box isnt going to stop them.
I am holding out for the suspended animation model so i can sleep for 1000 years and wake up in a new utopia wit some cheesy little robot named tweaky asking me to boogie. And of course an Erin Grey clone wouldn't be bad.
@tamoko: Guns, flamethrowers... Right...
"Take THAT, pesky anthrax spores!!"
*BANG* /12 guage shot
*cough, cough*
*thud*
These guys had some excellent forward thinking too, I mean they're already in the right place to begin repopulating the earth.
I can think of no better way to "live" than within a coffin for two buried underneath the debris of a building. Smart.
@f0rge: Similar to a face/palm situation, that would be the head/wood smack.
@decrigeek: I'll take Summer Glau.
Finally, a high tech Dutch Oven that seals as tightly as a Dutch Oven.
Egads! My claustrophobia kicks in when looking at that picture. I'd rather die in an explosion than die from convulsions I'd have being locked in that small space. I might be ok when the actual explosion hits, because I'd be too busy peeing my pants to notice. But once it's all over with and the entire freaking house has fallen on top of the bed to where we can't get out... *shudders*.
@ViperBorg: Brave words. If she don't wanna be taken, she ain't gonna be taken.
The smart thing to do would be to have it kill you before the killers show up and rob them of the satisfaction.
That'd show 'em.
@ps61318: I'm a gutsy kind of guy.
Easier to lock the children out of their bed and intruding on their dull and boring sex life.
That guy looks soo funny or maybe im just an asshole.
Reminds me a bit of Robert from Everybody Loves Raymond LMAO!
This is good but how are you going to open it once you're sealed inside and what if they robber or stalker or kidnapper has one of those and knows how to open it from the outside. Then you're really f***d because he's locking you in that trunk and it aint gonna be pretty.
Pointless product in my mind.
Do they throw in a free roll of duct tape and that foot fan?
sweet jebus they really have a market for this now in our fear/war based economy.
"DUCK AND COVER!!!" for the 21st century: looks like a piece of Ikea with a Weber Grill hinged onto it. Yeah, it'll work!
"Honey. I'm feeling frisky....How about we climb in our Quantum Sleeper and have awkward, unpassionate sex?"
"Ohh harold, we almost forgot our gasmasks...you can never be too safe!"
How the hell do they take a crap in that thing?
The box is not meant to protect you from the Outside, but to protect you from what's Inside...
@Jimbuck: Sex with gas masks... Kinky!
@graffiksguru: Just like you'd crap anywhere else. With copious amounts of SHAME!!
But.... Is this thing beardproof?
Wasn't there something like this in Married to the Mob?
@decrigeek - 50 channels of "Ow My Balls" is more like it.
"Blah blah!" Finally some terrorist protection for us vampires!
There's a big problem with the design of this so called "Saferoom protection". When there's any kind of danger about, I want to hide *under* the bed, and from the picture it's obviously not possible!
This thing would facilitate the most brilliant Dutch Ovens ever. I'll be staring a divorce straight in the face.
I'd rather just have a Panic Room. No coffins for me, thx.
So, if your locked up in this thing your stalker/kidnapper can just put on a padlock and wheel you off. Then, when no one pays the requisite ransom, you are ready to go in the ground. Perfect!
Oh yeah, it doesn't keep you safe from fire; but what are the odds of that happening?
Coming soon: the Quantum Sleeper Sleeper! You'll be able to sleep in peace knowing no one will be able to steal your precious expensive Quantum Sleeper, which will be safely encased in your Quantum Sleeper Sleeper!
@Guizzy: Complete with your Quantum Sleeper RV!
Disclaimer: RV not available for purchase. Using Quantum Sleeper in an RV may result in RV getting stolen and you being locked in a box. Serious side effects include vomiting, loss of bowel control, and death by spouse.
The only thing "Quantum" about this thing is it requires some very fuzzy logic in order to convince yourself to purchase it...
AHHHHH this is probably just viral marketing for Fallout 3
What happens if the terrorists unplug it?
"Featuring 1.25" polycarbonate bulletproof plating"
"Will damage Polycarbonate: Acetone, Acrylonitrile
Ammonia, Amyl acetate, Benzene, Bromine, Butyl acetate, Sodium hydroxide, Chloroform, Dimethylformamide, Concentrated hydrochloric acid, Concentrated hydrofluoric acid, Iodine, Methanol, Methyl ethyl ketone, Styrene, Tetrachloroethylene, Toluene, Concentrated sulfuric acid, Xylene, Cyanoacrylate monomers"
Also if yer locked in there, as permissionmag said, someone can either unplug it, drill a hole in it (polycarbonate may be good against bulllets, but it's still just think lexan, which can be drilled quite easily) or just sit there and wait for you to starve...
After two days in the Quantum Sleeper, who will save the couple from their desperate need to urinate?
@SchruteBuck: Well, it offers privacy and... well..........
Watch out for the chemical gas attacks within the confines of the Quantum Sleeper!
This is just a TEST people.
A test. T . E . S . T . TEST!
Go back to your shelters, get bombed and come back on Tuesday for the real punchline.
/God, Americans' humour has been SO Bushed !
design problem - you're locked inside safe.
how do you know when its safe to come out?
@flyboy: my thoughts exactly
By the looks of it, I shall rename it "Big f*cking expensive coffin".
@permissionmag: Terrorists aren't that devious.
@scarbrtj:
Nice.
The only use I could possibly come up with is if you live in Tornado Alley or some other area where you wake up to the crack of a storm already on you, and zipping that shut quickly would be a good alternative.
All I can say is if you plan on using that when the home alarm goes off, you better have a cell phone on the nightstand that will get a signal with it closed.
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