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FBed concept: a bed Facebook fans will ‘like’

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Yeah the Facebook Messenger desktop app is pretty cool, but why not take it a step further and check out the Facebook bed and desk instead?  The product of designer Tomislav Zvonarić, the appropriately named (and shaped) FBed concept is a combination bed and desk shaped like the unmistakable logo of the mega popular social network, Facebook.

According to Zvonarić, “FBed is a conceptual multi-practical bed design that would allow you always to be up to date and close to your online friends even when you sleep. The idea is that you may hop in front of your screen directly from your bed when you wake up and inverse when you get tired and want to go sleep.”

While certainly an interesting concept, we’re curious as to how comfortable it is–not to mention how quickly the novelty of sleeping in a giant lower-case F would wear off. And yet despite all that, we wonder how long it will take a budding designer to create that Google couch we always wanted….

[Images courtesy of The Design Home]

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