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I've slept on a couch for the past 8 or 9 years, so I'd simply take the bedroom and the bed in this video. But the TV is cool, too.

It's the Underbed Lift, a rather complex looking gizmo that holds a 50" television, DVD player, VCR, amplifiers, a subwoofer, and seven channels of surround sound. Press a button and the TV screen comes up from under the bed, presumably to the theme of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's for people who don't want all that entertainment equipment taking up room in their bedroom, and for people who just want something that's pretty damn cool.

It looks like you need a queen-sized bed and a pretty big bedroom. I wonder if they make a couch version for the living room? After you view the video, here are some pics that show it from different angles.

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Here's the thing about microwave ovens. They promise to cook your food faster, but really they just make time seem to drag on and on. You're not stirring chopping ingredients when you use a microwave, so you're just sitting around waiting for your food to finish.

And since microwaving is faster than cooking something in the oven, you don't really have time to go watch a TV show while you're waiting for your food to finish. So you stand in front of the microwave watching the seconds counting down until your burrito is ready to eat. And man, do those seconds take a long time to count down.

Well, we've probably just put more thought into this problem than anyone else in the history of the human race -- except for the guy who designed this 1200 watt microwave with a TV built into the door.

The TV unit is 15 inches, and even includes a DVD player. While you probably won't pop a movie in while waiting for your popcorn to pop, we're all for having a space-saving TV in the kitchen. You can watch a cooking show while you cook. Or Battlestar Galactica. We won't judge, either way.

Couch potatoes around the world are in mourning: Robert Adler, one of the inventors of the TV remote control, died on Thursday in Boise, Idaho.

Adler is credited with creating (with fellow inventor Eugene Polley) the remote control named The Space Command. The wireless device was created by Adler and Polley while they were both working for Zenith in the mid 1950s. He got a special Emmy in 1997. But that's not the only thing that Adler invented. He had over 180 patents. In fact, the latest one (for a touch screen technology) was filed earlier this month.

Adler also got an award in 1974 for a paper on an Optical Video Disc Player. This helped lead to the invention of DVDs.

Adler was 93.