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Hoover-Hover-sofa

 So you dont have to move your furniture
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So you have hoovered round the living room and all thats left is to clean under the sofa. You pull it away from the wall and...Screeeeeee, you scratch the tasteful wood laminate flooring. No longer.

The vacuum sofa is a regular sofa with a retro-fitted base within the bottom structure of the sofa. When the hoover nozzle is attached to the port on the back corner of the sofa, subtly hidden from view, pneumatic actuator valves within the base direct the suction in waves under the sofa to pick up any dust and fluff. Never a scratched floor again.

Edit from [hippo] - Setting your vacuum cleaner to 'blow' instead of 'suck' would turn your sofa into a hovercraft

—miasere, Apr 21 2009

Martha knows http://www.marthast...ors-floor-coverings
[blissmiss, Apr 21 2009]

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- a tangentially-related idea [hippo, Apr 22 2009]

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       Seems plausible. Why not. + Solves a problem. Yes.
—blissmiss, Apr 21 2009
   

       Could traumatize cats. [+]
—loonquawl, Apr 21 2009
   

       Setting your vacuum cleaner to 'blow' instead of 'suck' would turn your sofa into a hovercraft.
—hippo, Apr 21 2009
   

       [hippo], I hadnt thought of that, brilliant!
—miasere, Apr 21 2009
   

       With the cat atop the hovercraft even better. Oh yeah!
—blissmiss, Apr 21 2009
   

       So many reasons this is a good idea !
—batou, Apr 21 2009
   

       Can you use this sofa in an atmosphere as well?
—Aristotle, Apr 21 2009
   

       Hoversofa gets my vote.
—Veho, Apr 21 2009
   

       Now there's a name!
—blissmiss, Apr 21 2009
   

       Sofas should have their own category on the halfbakery. A sofa presents a mine of opportunities for invention. This is probably one of the better ones. Hail [miasere]! (BUT.... don't, that's ....pedant)
—xenzag, Apr 21 2009
   

       Hoverbeds too!
—phundug, Apr 21 2009
   

       (We need LetsBuildAFort's opinion on this)
—phundug, Apr 21 2009
   

       Are you thinking footstools?
—blissmiss, Apr 21 2009
   

       Kinda what a Roomba is for, isn't it? Oh well, your idea somehow seems more practical than a robot. [+]
—21 Quest, Apr 21 2009
   

       Love the hoversofa idea, but do you realise that the dust and fluff on the carpet is a source of stuffing? Maybe the sofa should move all over the building and plant itself in various places, sucking up fluff until it's completely upholstered therewith.
—nineteenthly, Apr 21 2009
   

       Then the cushions of such a roaming sofa could then be searched for coins, pens and mislaid Elvis impersonators.
—Aristotle, Apr 21 2009
   

       [nineteenthly] Bonus purpose: If you sofa is too thickly upholstered, a quick outbound blast from the vacuum cleaner hookup would empty it out a bit - hopefully with a comedic "PLFFTTTHTHBBBF!" sound.
—shapu, Apr 21 2009
   

       When it got too full, it could visit a little room with a bin in it and void itself, then come back to where it was before.
—nineteenthly, Apr 21 2009
   

       If the air being pumped in was hot enough just get a bowl and munch on some freshly air popped pop corn.
—blissmiss, Apr 21 2009
   

       It could also have a little compartment like the one in Jimmy Savile's chair, but with the function of a lost property box. It could hoover up buttons, coins, pens, bits of lego and the like, sort them from the fluff, clean them and deposit them in the box. If it found enough coins, it could make its way down the street to the local corner shop and buy you a packet of biscuits as a nice surprise.
—nineteenthly, Apr 21 2009
   

       This is an excellent solution, but I don't understand the problem. If you can't reach under the sofa with a regular hoover, why do you need to remove the dust underneath it?
—MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 21 2009
   

       Martha Stewart (link)
—blissmiss, Apr 21 2009
   

       [MaxwellB] If a tree falls down in the forest and no one's there, does it make a sound?
—hippo, Apr 22 2009
   

       Yes! especially with all of the modifications. One minor one of my own - can it hover and vacuum at the same time - perhaps blowing at the edges and sucking in the middle. Then with a simple joystick control, you can lay back in comfort on the sofa, and vacuum the whole room.
—MadnessInMyMethod, Apr 22 2009
   

       You could do a lot of this with a vroom monosocket.
—nineteenthly, Apr 22 2009
   

       When at rest it could use Feng Shui to position itself to the best advantage of it's owner's current spiritual requirements.
—Aristotle, Apr 22 2009
   

       Clearly it would also gradually creep across the carpet gathering features as it went.
—nineteenthly, Apr 22 2009
   


 

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