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The Walking House
What is 10' tall, has six hydraulic legs, and is powered by the wind and solar panels? The prototype pod house built by art collective N55 in Copenhagen, Denmark. With the help of MIT, N55 built the pod over a two-year period at a cost of £30,000. Designers say it provides a solution to the problem of rising water levels as the house can simply walk away from floods. One of the designers says, "This house is not just for travellers but also for anyone interested in a more general way of nomadic living." It won't be long now until the Japanese make Howl's Moving Castle.
... like it'd go well with a Darth Vader suit.
This alters the playing field of going home drunk considerably.
You can either have your house follow you.
Or your house could just not be there when you go home.
called "wheel". Very handy for moving things around. Check it out!
You've awakened the house, and it catches you and eats you.
So... the pic shown in the front summary story is actually relevant?
I don't like it. [shakes fist]
Stampede!
Modern art is pointless.
Maybe so.
But if you added a huge (solar) panel on the side of it, Star Wars fans would be queuing up for miles to get it.
...that's why I have wheels instead of legs.
...them housey thingumies is up on the back field again."
"Boy, fetch my shotgun."
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
Home goes you!
And this time next week £30,000 will be about $5.50.
And it's not even patented yet!
Smivs on the intertubes!
Modern art is pointless? Au contraire, mon ami:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
These would be great for all those poor villagers in places threatened by tsunamis. They could make them out of locally-sourced materials and run them on wave-generated energy, which they have in abundance.
I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.
Get your walking house off my lawn!
simon
Yeah, they'll just dig up some locally-sourced microcontrollers.
:x
But does it come in a double-wide?
One ring to bind them - should probably have more fiber and less rings in their diet.
... under "squatters".
You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
It sucks to have your car stolen, as I know from recent experience. Even worse having your house stolen.
I work on 6th Degree of freedom (6 hydraulic legs) flight simulators and there's one thing that all the hydraulic ones have in common. After a few years they start pissing oil all over. No matter how well they are maintained, they always eventually leak. Part of it is the weight they're under, part of it is the seals start to wear.
I wonder how environmentally sound it would be to have a house that sags on one side and pisses hydraulic oil everywhere it goes. Not to mention that the owner would have to maintain the locomotion systems.
ARTHUR DENT: Pointless? Is that all it's got to say?! One word! "Pointless"!? What the hell's that supposed to mean?
FORD PREFECT: Well there are a hundred billion houses on the planet and a limited amount of space in wikipedia. And no one knew much about the pod house of course.
ARTHUR DENT: Well I hope you've managed to rectify that a little.
FORD PREFECT: Yes! I transmitted a new entry off to the editor... He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement!
ARTHUR DENT: What does it say now?
FORD PREFECT: "Mostly pointless".
Note to artists.. world != you..
fucking self centred assholes..
There goes the neighborhood.
In StarCraft, Terran buildings fly. It's just an ability the Terrans build into all their buildings for free, because they like it. Its good to see that we're progressing towards that ideal, because it will really help us fight off the Zerg.
Now there's and idea with legs!
What's pointless about a house with no running water, no sewage system, and no electricity? I mean, come one, with Wifi and a cellphone what could the residents be missing?
Also taking into account, that your house can now also walk away from where you just took a dump.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
With enough AI, these things will evolve solar panel wings and become Tie Fighters.
MIT, the Mother of the Empire!
You are standing in a open field, west of a white house.
The house walks away.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.