So what did the old bed have? Parallel ports? SCSI?
Zero.
Which means I continue to have to plug my kindles, phone, and “marital aid” into the wall socket next to the bed to recharge them.
My bed has a mattress and a bookshelf headboard with books on it. It has 0 USB ports, 0 phasers, 0 tractor beams, and 0 tricorders. No warp drive as it’s not certified for space flight.
I bet they automatically send video or report to Facebook and TikTok or whatever those kids are using now. People today share everything.
In answer to the OP: none. My bed is analog. It’s also from 1988.
No USB ports, but my bed is a Time Machine!
When I fall drunk on it, it transports me hours ahead into the future!
Is that one of those Splitting Headache MattressesTM ?
Ah, but does it have USB-C?
No connectivity on my bed either at my place or the old homestead. Then again I haven’t mechanized my sleeping furniture.
(And damn… IIRC I first heard the word “Teledildonics” back in the late 80s or early 90s… )
Our bed lets you raise the head and feet part, with a remote control of course, which was very handy when my wife got her knee and hip replaced and needed to elevate her feet. No USB ports though. The frame does get plugged in. I also charge my phone in another room.
I thought that most marital aids had wifi, and didn’t have to plug into anything except for recharging. But I’m not an expert. I do know that some years ago The Register printed a story about a company that reversed engineered one of those things, and was able to read the firmware. They discovered that the admin password was built in and easily available. Just saying.
And in 1977 for a seminar on the relatively new microprocessor we had an assignment to write a paper on a new application. I did microprocessor-based vibrator. Product name Shtup. (I hope Qadgop the Mercotan is at home.) Damn, I should have patented it. Now I know how Arthur C. Clarke felt.
Of course not. Size matters.
So if you plug the laptop into the bed, does the laptop recognize it, or do you need to install drivers first? Can you download dreams and overwrite the default set?
We just bought a bed…zero USBs.
My niece and her hubs, who are both techies, had USBs ports installed in every room when they built their house, which I thought was really smart.
That way they can plug in wherever they are, do not have to run long cords, and there’s no need for 110V to USB adapters.
I used to have an alarm clock that needed 110v, but now that my alarm is my phone, I need USB. I have a tablet that needs USB, Bluetooth speakers and headphones, so I guess the tech will be with us awhile.
One year I got Mrs. L a plastic disc about six inches across and half an inch tall. We put the light from her nightstand on top of it (space is at a premium). In the disc there was a USB port and it had a small, dim sort of “nightlight” so you could see to plug it in. She really liked it but it stopped working.
I keep imagining the old prison movies where the lights flicker when someone is executed.
Both of my parents spent time in hospitals or inpatient rehab in the past few years and they have taken their smartphones with them. So we plugged them into a long (two or three meter) charging cable plugged into the wall behind the bed. It seemed to me that the companies that manufacture hospital beds ought to add a couple of USB charging ports to the bed itself. (Hospital beds already plug into the wall, for things like the gizmos to raise and lower the head and foot parts or the built in weight scale, so it wouldn’t be a huge difference.)
Medical-grade USB is really expensive and Medicare doesn’t cover it
Zero. Consequently, we don’t plug anything into it.
I’m not asking for medical-grade anything. Just a couple of consumer-level USB charging ports.
Sorry. I should’ve added a “/s”.
If it weren’t for the fact that every aspect of the medical industrial complex is corrupt, I’d be confident that there’s no such thing as medical-grade USB.
None. If our telecommunications devices lose charge overnight, Mrs P and I have to resort to talking to one another instead of texting.
You don’t have a TV or computer?
This reminds me of when I found out about vibrating panties with a remote control. That was probably about 20 years ago, before Wi-Fi.
As for USB ports, I bought my bed and frame after I graduated in 1994. Not sure when I got the mattress and box springs, but I do know I have replaced them somewhere along the way. No USB ports in any case.
We replaced our hard side waterbed with a soft side one a few years ago. Apparently waterbeds are only for the young because the four USB ports can only be reached by squatting and bending. It’s OK though, each of our nightstand has four easily reached USB ports each.