The Japanese heated bed table is one of those very inventions. The masterful piece of ingenuity is called a Kotatsu and it’s responsible for how some people in Japan keep themselves warm in the ...

The most commonly used Kotatsu today is comprised of a table with a comfortable blanket or futon topped with a flat table. Attached to the table is an electric heater, which distributes heat from ...

Kotatsu work by supplying heat from the unit attached to the ... don’t forget that Bauhutte has gaming beds too.

Some of us have a secret (or not-so-secret) fantasy in which we purchase a cozy bed, stock up on ridiculously warm products and stay right there. All. Winter. Long. The secret is a built-in heater ...

You might think you're pretty good at your ‘hygge’ routine (the Danish word for that particular feeling of comfort and cosiness), but perhaps you haven't come across the Japanese kotatsu.

It combines your bed, lounge seating and table into one incredibly cosy piece of furniture. The kotatsu is a table with an electric heater underneath and a heavy blanket on top to trap the warmth.

In this five-minute digest, we look at Kotatsu: low tables with a heat source and a quilt. For generations, people have gathered around them in the cold winter months.

One of the contest's winners took inspiration from an age-old Japanese design: the kotatsu, a special heated table. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. As temperatures dip and the ...

I'll never forget my first winter in Japan when I heard that some Japanese people sleep under the kotatsu. The kotatsu, as you may know, is a small table with a heating element under it and a ...

‘Japanese or Iranian?’ asks Golnoush Niknejad, an Iranian-American journalist after reading a Bored Panda article on an “awesome Japanese invention” called ...