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When I was a kid, we all thought race car beds were the coolest thing possible. Turns out we were all dead wrong. Derek Dutilly has upped the ante by building his son the undisputed champion of elevated novelty beds: the Star Wars AT-AT bed. According to the Dutilly family blog, the whole project took about six and a half weeks and 60 hours of labor. This was inarguably time well spent. Check out some more pictures after the jump.

Bed technology tends to be kind of boring. Sure, you've got your Sleep Number alchemy and that memory foam stuff, but where are our space beds, or like, flying beds or whatever? Redditor mememetatata must have asked himself a similarly meandering question, and then decided to do something about it by building a levitating magnetic bed. Yes, ladies and gents, this bed floats.

What are thought to be the world's oldest human beds were recently found in a cave in South Africa. Considering how primitive they were, perhaps the better term would be "sleeping mats," but in either case, these are the oldest beds or sleeping mats that have ever been found. Previous sleeping mats dated back 20,000 or 30,000 years, but these new ones -- or rather, these old ones -- are more squarely in a 50,000 to 70,000 year old ballpark.

Hollandia International and Therapedic have teamed up to design the $20,000 "iCon bed," which touts itself with the somewhat dubious distinction of the world's first luxury bed made for your iPad and features "four fully enclosed speakers, a 250-watt amplifier and the built-in docking stations for two iPads." This would be mere garden-variety luxury silliness (and a late entry to this list), but for one thing: It looks a lot like a giant Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Like, a lot a lot.