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Not exactly a product, but...put your directly mattress on the floor.
Does your bed every squeak or rattle when you move around? Does not happen if it's on the floor! Ever fall out of bed? Can't if it's on the floor. Want your bed to be bigger? Throw some pillows and blankets on the floor next to you and sprawl out to your heart's content. This is especially useful if your nocturnal co-pilot has a deeply rooted subconscious obsession with rolling on to your side of the bed.
In the morning, you can literally roll out of bed, and it feels kind of awesome.
Oh, you also now have an arbitrarily large nightstand.
Need to temporarily have more floorspace in your bedroom for something? It's really easy to stand your bed up against a wall.
But the boxspring! Your boxspring doesn't really do anything - it sits 6+ inches beneath you and acts as a solid, flat surface for your mattress. You already have one of those, it's the floor. I've been doing this for years, there is no difference in the sleeping experience except for the above listed benefits, and your view will seem weird for a while but you'l get used to it.
(If other people try this, I'd like to get your feedback so I can figure out whether I should promote this constantly or resign myself to being weird).
My experience is that it works very well, but I sometimes value the raw elevation (as David commented, it makes it easier to get out of bed in the morning). I also find that clutter on my floor is more annoying, so I clean more often, which has it's positives and negatives - in a small space it can be annoying since the clutter has no place to go. And, of course, dust/mold/spiders/cats are more annoying.
Depending on where you live, mold can become a problem.
I do this. It reclaims the space above the bed as everyday living space, the bed never wobbles, and it's generally just perfectly satisfactory.
The one disadvantage is that it's harder to stand up off a mattress (or in my case a futon) that's directly on the floor than one that's higher up.
YMMV. Whenever I have had my mattress on the floor, (a) the dust at floor level drives my asthma batshit (b) it's harder to get out of bed in the morning (because I need to lift my centre of gravity higher), and I have enough trouble convincing myself to get up.
Aside from the lost storage space beneath the bed... there's the issue of company.
It's more fun when you don't have to worry about falling off the bed - it's more more amenable to extremely kinetic activities. This includes at least one double-blindfolded study.
You'd need to do more than blindfold me before I failed to notice that the bed is on the ground...
And if you didn't mean that literally... my own studies show that a GOOD mattress works quite well for double-blindfold studies even with the height of a frame :)
Also, it is a good idea to try a thinner mattress. Thick mattress - on the bed or not - can acquire some deformations that can make you feel uncomfortable. Thin mattress on the floor just physically cannot deform in a way that you cannot fix by shaking at a bit. It is said to be good for your spine, too.