{"id":4,"date":"2005-12-02T04:27:03","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T21:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=4"},"modified":"2006-11-06T05:21:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T21:21:30","slug":"i-dream-in-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"I Dream in White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand manufacturer Design Mobel has come out with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designmobel.co.nz\/pause.html\">worlds first iPod compatible bed<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.designmobel.co.nz\/_pause-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dock the iPod beside your Bose bed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bought a Design Mobel bed a year ago based on the asthetics &#8211; in a world of bland beds the design was outstanding.  It was only after we got it home that I noticed the other things about the company &#8211; for example its programme to replant native trees and its environmental policy.<\/p>\n<p>The new Pause bed obviously raises the profile of the company in the market.  Even if they only shift a few units, people will start to recognise them internationally for their great design.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pity they used Bose speakers for the playback.  An audiophile I met a while back praised Bose as the only company in the world that can sell a $99 speaker for $999.  <\/p>\n<p>However the bed is interesting and signals the move of the little white devices into yet another part of peoples lives.  Storing music &#8211; and lots of music &#8211; on small devices is disrupting more than just the personal stereo\/walkman market.  First BMW integrates iPod docking (another way to amplify the shortcomings of low quality MP3 via expensive stereos), then it comes to the bed.  Where next &#8211; the toilet?<\/p>\n<p>After all, it would colour match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand manufacturer Design Mobel has come out with the worlds first iPod compatible bed. I bought a Design Mobel bed a year ago based on the asthetics &#8211; in a world of bland beds the design was outstanding. It was only after we got it home that I noticed the other things about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}