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Instant Buildings - Just Add Water

Posted by Zonk on from the where-are-my-flying-cars? dept.

lawrencekhoo writes "Wired has an article about the newly invented Building in a Bag. The structure is made from cement impregnated fabic, that is sealed in an easily transportable plastic bag. You literally just add water, and then inflate. Twelve hours later, you have a ready to use building. Possible uses include shelter for disaster areas, and instant field hospitals."

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  1. Time to advance. by dauthur · · Score: 4, Funny

    This sounds like the building process from the Jetsons. Maybe now we can move on from the trailer homes, manufactured homes and traditional building and move onto "Ziplock Construction Co."

  2. but how..... by EmptyBuffalo · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, once I get my mother-in-law to go into the building, how do I get the whole thing back into the bag?

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  3. I can see it all now... by telstar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thousands of refugees adding water and ingesting their "building in a bags" thinking they were MRE's.

    1. Re:I can see it all now... by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 5, Funny

      Thousands of refugees adding water and ingesting their "building in a bags" thinking they were MRE's.

      That's an easy fix - put the buildings in round packages and the MREs in square ones. What could possibly go wrong.

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    2. Re:I can see it all now... by Guppy06 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd wager that the inflatable houses taste better while the MRE's can be used to make sturdier shelter.

  4. A housing solution for slashdotters by The+I+Shing · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, I can move out of my parents' basement!

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    1. Re:A housing solution for slashdotters by DustMagnet · · Score: 4, Funny
      Yea, but it might block wifi?!?!

      I'm sad to say my first reaction to reading this, "No, it won't. Didn't you read the article." This stuff is very thin and once dry it wouldn't absorb much RF. It only took another second for me to realize it was a joke. Anyway, don't most Slashdotters want to block all RF from leaving their domicile? If I want to receive RF, I'll put up a Pringles can.

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  5. reminds me of a t-shirt I once had.... by wileycoyoteacme · · Score: 5, Funny

    Instant asshole, just add alcohol

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  6. Great! by biggerboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    An inflatable building to house my inflatable...er...friend.

  7. Somewhere... by Penguinshit · · Score: 4, Funny


    ..Dr. Schlock just got a hard-on...

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  8. Transportable? by FiReaNGeL · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, ok, cool for emergencies. But I won't be carrying one on my back anytime soon, cause I'm sure it weight a ton, literally :)

    Do they come in multiple flavors, too?

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  9. What do you add... by EmptyBuffalo · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...to get your cement building to grow a door?

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  10. This product will soon be acquired by Acme Co. by Travoltus · · Score: 4, Funny

    One of their first customers will be Wile E Coyote.

    Mark my words! :)

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  11. Re:Military applications by EvilIdler · · Score: 4, Funny

    This also means we're one step closer to the fast building of today's
    real-time strategy games :)

  12. Re:Where do you get the water? by dubiousmike · · Score: 4, Funny

    just make use of the included powdered water...

  13. Re:What's not to like? (The cost?) by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I dunno Capt'n. I mean, would the army really like blowing up buildings?

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