Er what? It's got MRI equivalent radiation levels? You can't bring metal near it? MRI machines have very high radiation levels, far greater than x-rays. Not sure about this at all. It looks cool though.

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Er what? It's got MRI equivalent radiation levels? You can't bring metal near it? MRI machines have very high radiation levels, far greater than x-rays. Not sure about this at all. It looks cool though.


MRI doesn't have any radiation. It has large static magnetic fields and radio waves - that's not what most people would term radiation. It's very powerful but hasn't been shown to have negative effects like x-rays (which are an ionizing form of radiation).

I wonder how it took them 7 years to develop what appears to be a pair of large permanent magnets with some shielding. Probably costs a fortune too.

if it has wires, what the hell is the point?
have a rangefinder fixed to an electromagnet and you can adjust the height to whatever you want
like nearly all these floating projects do
you could even do cool stuff like when there's nobody on it, have it float a few centimeters off the ground, and when weight is detected on it, like just lightly touching it, it rises to normal height so you can lay down on it
or perhaps the other way around.. have it normally sit high above the ground as a table and once you place enough weight on it, it goes down to bed's height