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 ...

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 ...

It was 1968 in San Francisco. One year after the Grateful Dead joined Jimi Hendrix, the Mamas and the Papas, and Jefferson Airplane at the Monterey Pop Festival. A year after 100,000 hippies descended ...

Have you noticed the resurgence of this nostalgic trend and wondered if it's worth a try? A mattress expert shares reasons why you might want to skip it. While it’s certainly not a full-scale revival, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...