When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images After dropping out of fashion in the 1990s, the humble waterbed seemed to ...

While it’s certainly not a full-scale revival, waterbeds have been making waves on social media lately. If you missed the trend the first time around, your curiosity might be piqued. So, are waterbeds ...

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 ...

The waterbed was invented by a San Francisco State University graduate student in 1969, and it quickly captured the American imagination. It soon became a symbol of the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll ...

The bed in Nancy Gerrish’s bright Los Feliz home appears perfectly normal — carved wooden headboard, fuzzy brown blanket, cream-colored bed skirt. The sheets are a tasteful leopard print. A few ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hike up your bell bottoms. The waterbed is relaunching in Florida. But don't confuse this new waterbed with the Free-Love symbol of the '70s. Gone (at least mostly) are the oceanic waves, now tamed by ...

TAMARAC, Fla. — Waterbeds still elicit a wink, wink, nudge, nudge whenever they come up in conversation — but two pioneers of the industry in the United States are hoping to generate a new wave of ...

For kids and adults alike, waterbeds used to be the coolest—until suddenly, they weren’t. After a heyday in the late 1980s in which nearly one out of every four mattresses sold was a waterbed mattress ...

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, ...

After dropping out of fashion in the 1990s, the humble waterbed seemed to vanish entirely. So where did waterbeds go? Why did ...