Imagine being woken up to an earthquake shaking everything around you, but to avoid any falling objects or debris, you lock yourself inside your earthquake-proof bed. How's that sound?

Well, Chinese inventor Wang Wenxi has designed such a bed with this exact purpose in mind. According to Gizmodo, Wenxi first received a patent for his creation back in 2010, but has been working on it over the years to provide more protection and to allow people to store any supplies/food they deem necessary.


There are several questions that need to be asked, however, such as how you trigger the bed to eat you. Or what if you don't sleep in the same position shown in the above video? What if you share the bed with someone else? The worst case scenarios have the potential to be very painful.

Furthermore, even before you're placed in a situation in which you may need to use the bed, how do you install it in your home? A bed built to protect people from any magnitude of earthquake could be expensive.

Of course, Wenxi's earthquake bed design isn't in production just yet, so there's still time to sort these issues out and, more importantly, to test them to see if they're truly safer for people. If proven so, it would certainly be a better alternative to simply hiding under the bed or in some other part of the house that wasn't made to withstand tremors.