2025 Corporate Vision Global Business Award's “Book Readers' Innovation of the Year”

Lie down.
Look up.

$699

Why pretzel yourself into a sofa to read a book? Why become a weight-lifter just to read Ken Follett? This is the most fun you haven't had in bed yet.

Overhead in Bed turns the simple act of reading upside down.

Hands-free reading: Lie down. Look up.

Lift or lower the platform to any position. Upon release, Overhead in Bed locks securely to your perfect focus-point. You’ll still have to lift the book to turn the page - old fashioned books in wood pulp format still require page-turning.

Enclosed in the dark chamber of OHIB V.2, viewing content on a smartphone is like being the only person in a movie theater. In bed.

Overhead in Bed supports books, eBooks, smartphones, tablets - anything that’s flat and can fit on the board.

Action: variable-locking load positioners [aka retractors] with tension-adjustable friction brakes. Retractors slide along a track that’s secured into ceiling sheetrock with drywall anchors each of which has a tension load of 356 pounds in typical 5/8ths ceiling sheetrock. Each retractor, whose nylon cable travel distance is ~5 feet, has a rating of 10 pounds.

Kit contains:

See-through plexiglass platform;

2 braided, galvanized aircraft cables each test-loaded to 920 pounds of pull-out force;

retractors;

2 rechargeable goose-neck clamp-lamp LEDs;

extendable ceiling track;

hardware;

drape, foam blackout sheet, and poly-satin blackout topcloth; the foam blackout sheet with cut-out profile into which your smartphone is emplaced prevents the smartphone’s gorilla glass from sliding off the acrylic like an ice cube. It also overlaps podcasts’ visually distracting margins, logos, chyrons, lower thirds and scrolls;

installation instructions.

Limited production. Contact us.

Fundable Noggins:

All a kid needs to learn to read well are phonics skills, compelling material, and privacy. Hands-free, upside-down reading in quiet solitude is a cure for illiteracy.

Because American public schools are irreversibly trapped in failure, school choice empowerment is a fast-growing phenomenon. As of late 2025, sixteen states subsidize home-schooling through grants, vouchers, education savings accounts, etc. There’s sufficient cause for parents who love their children to remove them from government schools’: threats of violence, overcrowded classrooms, medical mandates, confiscation of parental rights, anti-Christian anti-American bias, conditioning curricula, porn in libraries, sexualization, transgender brainwashing, woke propaganda, DEI, CRT, SEL, digital surveillance and data mining of students’ devices, mass failure of standardized tests, chronic absenteeism and junk food lunches in the horror show that has become America’s trillion-dollar public education monstrosity.

Besides state grants, home-schooling parents can now utilize IRS 529s which allow $20,000 in tax deductions per kid per year, and who knows how much of the disestablished Department of Education's annual ~$250B budget will divert to states' Depts of Eds who, if they're smart [which isn't guaranteed …] may want to seize on disruptive technology that actually works when all other efforts at alleviating illiteracy have not.

Form follows function: The Overhead in Bed Experience