The first time I lay down on a waterbed, I thought, “Who wouldn’t want one of these?” The undulating motion of the water, the evenly distributed pressure against my body — so relaxing, and sensual too ...

At lunch with a friend, we saw an ad for "Waterbeds N Stuff." We both, nearly at the same time, said "Does anyone actually sleep on waterbeds now?" Weren't they a fad of the 80s? As for myself, I had ...

Charlie Hall loves the water. He lives right on it, in a beautiful home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. And as an inventor, over the years he's come up with all kinds of ways to utilize water, from ...

I never throw anything away. That’s why I still have the waterbed, its mattress bubbling and gurgling like a mountain stream. I bought it in the 1970s, when waterbeds were all the rage. They became ...

Prior to my old waterbed finally springing a fatal leak a few years ago, I had a vivid, recurring dream in which I was drowning. In retrospect, I now realize my waterbed had sustained a series of ...

At their height of popularity in the mid-1980s, waterbeds made up one in five mattresses sold in Australia. By the 90s, demand had collapsed and waterbeds were left with a reputation of being daggy, a ...

He used Jell-O and cornstarch at first, but the squashy gunk, poured into a vinyl bladder, was too heavy to move. And it began to stink after a few days. Then he tried water. “Rancid Jell-O Led to ...