The bedroom of the future?

CGIs reveal smartbeds that monitor health, self-cleaning mattresses and even a holographic LOVER

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With more of us watching TV and using gadgets from our bed it was only a matter of time before  technology became part of the bedroom, inside mattresses and even bed sheets.

Images showing what the bedroom of the future could like have been created by London-based design scientist and futurist Melissa Sterry, and feature beds that monitor health as someone sleeps and bedsheets that can respond to changes in a sleeper's temperature. 

One day there could even be a holographic companion that looks like a celebrity crush, such as Mr Darcy, and can read bedtime stories to soothe people to sleep.

It asked more than 2,000 people what they most want to see in bedrooms of the future.

All the technologies are currently being worked on and developed in research centres across the UK in one form or another.  

The most-desirable technology, according to the study, was self-cleaning and bacteria-resistant mattresses that can sterilise germs at 47 per cent. 

In second place, with 42 per cent of the votes, were mattresses and bedsheets fitted with adaptive materials able to heat up when its cold, and cool down automatically when its hot, in response to a person's body temperature. 

A third of people want to see smart beds that track vital statistics while a person sleeps, which can warn them if they

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