What is Digg?181 Comments
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+158We've already got $32,000 homes here, they're called trailers.
- Enchantrem, on 10/12/2007, -5/+120You've gotta admit, though, a Mila Jovovich in the shower would be a huge selling point for these things.
- glock22ownr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+79LOL ! Trailer Park 2.0 ...
- FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+70If they round the corners, and polish everything to a nice white shine... it will get to the U.S. MUCH faster...
can anyone say iHome? - FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41the inside reminds me of corbin dallas's apartment in the fifth element, but prettier. i expect, however, that i won't find ian holm saran-wrapped in my bed or mila jovovich in my shower, and Brion James in my fridge.
- AndrewJC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40I'd sell all my belongings for an apartment with a Milla Jovovich in the shower.
- TexMachina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36It looks... I don't know, quaint.. sitting out there in nature by a babbling brook and pleasant fall weather.
But...
Let's cram a few thousand together in close quarters in the big nasty city where a majority of the world's population has already ended up living and you do indeed have Corbin's future hellhole apartment. Autowash? - xrisnothing, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39Yeah, the day that looks like a home is the day you should kill yourself, because you're basically a hamster.
- Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35It's a little too expensive for what it offers. If it ran on solar power and had a clothes washing unit and/or dryer of some type it might be worth it but as it stands you may as well learn how and make your own for about 1/10th of the price.
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31@ Corbin,
And said trailers are probably about 5-8X bigger that this thing.
But, how cool would it be to dig a hole and sink one of these puppies! Line the walls with some lead and concrete, and viola! Instant Armageddon Outpost! Those black helicopters that keep following me be damned! I'm good to go! - LDanix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Looks like a great replacement for my parents' basement. I'm outta this dump!
- laterallateral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Am I the only one imagining Thom Yorke working on a mac inside that thing?
Yes, I probably am. - TDot1980, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28This product will fail in America. People won't fit in them.
- TriSight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24@theblooms
Yah, I was doing the math too. I bought my house which is 2800sq ft with a small piece of land for $130,000. Doing the math on that (figuring only the house into the equation and not the land) I paid less than $46.43 per sq ft whereas with this you pay roughly $419.95 per sq ft. My house is also brick.. I'd love to see how well this thing would fare against a hurricane. - thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Don't you mean your housing problems are about to begin?
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Europe just discovered mobile homes?
- dieinafire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18oh yea! itty bitty little cubes coming to the US! let 'em set up all over OK and TX... and then watch as a tornado tosses and scatters them like a blender with the lid off.
- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17"We've already got $32,000 homes here, they're called trailers."
Agreed. These are neat, but they need to get the price down to $15,000 or so to have an impact. The only place I could see these catching on in the US are places where land is ungodly expensive or otherwise hard to come by. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18True - I'd love to see the damage a kid could do with a Wii in there.
- Langford, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18This is the future of home of all humanity, if the population continues to grow unchecked.
/booming voice
Well, that was depressing. On a side note, the corners of that table seem awfully pointy for being in a small room. - zoomie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16hmmm...looks to be about the size of a prison cell
- fernandez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16finally a place to stash the porn
- BufordT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17What a rip-off! You can get the Amish near where I live to build you an authentic hand crafted log cabin five times the size of that piece of ***** with a loft for about $35,000.
- JasonPrini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Multipass!
- MiDri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15@TriSight -- But I bet your house has all kinds of lame stuff that cool people don't want like furniture and a washer and dryer, dish washer... .. .
- ramaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Nice, small, non-mobile moblie home. But five years is too short a shelf-life.
- cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Isn't this a trailer without the wheels? Really, we have a whole lot of these in the US. So instead of trailer parks we'd have cube parks.
Wow, color me impressed. - dethl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Police officer: Are you classified as human?
Dallas: Negative, I am a meat popsicle. - andrew522, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14if it has a bathroom, microwave, fridge stacked with food, and high speed internet, I'm all good.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13if this had the tubes like a hamster cage i would buy this now!
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14They got the price wrong. The site says UKP50,000. That's more than $90,000!! You can build a nice conventional house for that money. Might only be 500-1000sf, but you won't be peeing in the sink and taking sponge baths.
- scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I'd be happy in a converted shipping container as long as it had broadband!
- spliffy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13its like a trailer park for yuppies
- VtmnR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13They say it's coming to the USA shortly! Finally, my housing problems are SOLVED!
- DEADB33F, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Did you just get away with a blending reference without getting dugg down?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17So that's where eurotrash lives!
- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16"The entire population of the Earth could comfortably live in area the size of Texas and enjoy a population density no higher than NYC"
The population density of New York wouldn't scale to an area the size of Texas, and it certainly wouldn't be "comfortable". That kind of insane density requires extensive support from outlying, less densely populated areas (for food, waste disposal, raw materials, manufacturing, energy production etc.) and creates other issues such as air quality, travel issues, etc. Regardless land is only one scarce resource--food, water, fuel, and other resources are all challenged by a larger population.
"The Earth could comfortably support a population of 40 billion people, a figure not even a Malthusian on drugs can foresee."
Mainstream science (the kind in those pesky, peer-reviewed scientific journals) rarely put the sustainable population of the earth about 12 billion. Even assuming the number you pulled out of your ass is correct, at our current population growth (doubling every 40 years) we will reach 40 billion in 104 years. It seems to me now might be an good time to start taking the problem seriously, as there will be no easy fix.
Some interesting facts: If there were 40 billion people on earth and land was distributed equally (hah!) each person would receive a parcel 177 feet square (about half a football field). Much of this land is unusable (deserts, mountains, etc), and only 1/4 is suitable for farming. This space has to provide for all your needs--food, water, clothing, housing, transportation (including roads), energy, manufacturing--oh, and your land has to provide for animals as well. Incidentally this would be the exact population density (343 people/km^2) of Rwanda--a country plagued by overpopulation and shortages of resources. - andrew522, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11they could market it as "The disposable home"...
o wait... that means I could have one of these in 6 different cities for the same price as my current house. - scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I'd rather live in a buick.
I'm all for cheap pre-fab housing - and a lot of it is very nice, innovative etc... but this particular example is overpriced and for poseurs.
Edit: and I've seen better types of such things before. - JasonPrini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Anyone find a floorplan? We could then build a Sketchup model...
- BassMastr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14You could get a camper about the same size for half the price and live where ever the ***** you want...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15A new home every 5 years? The hippies will be pissed over this waste.
- davesbrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I live in a 16' by 20' cabin with a loft. No electricity or running water. Yeah, I guess I know a little about doing without and in a small place. We don't need MTV showing us how to pimp our homes and every other TV show telling us what we need to be happy.
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@scabbers
"I'd rather live in a Buick."
That is one of the funniest thing I have read in the past week!
http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/buic7601.htm
Sad thing is, the Buick REALLY IS twice as big! 5.21 cubic meters of volume for the Buick vs. 2.6 cubic meters for this!
The Buick's interior volume taken from http://www.stationwagon.com/faq.html . - scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11How would you do it? Hamsters survive 250 mph dragster crashes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"considered as a modular solution for space-restricted urban areas -"
It's called an apartment building. These things aren't even stackable. - davesbrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Too many Twinkies and Ring-Dings piled ontop of CrapDonalds.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7where do you *****?
- SlowOnTheUptake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Here's one, and it's a lot roomier:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4972526.stm#graphic - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11I meant to say @Chompy, I have no idea where the ***** "Corbin" came from. I gotta dial back on the crack intake.
Anyway, I just did the math, this bitch is only 76.2 square feet! A small trailer is 900 - 1100 square feet. So the $32,000 trailer is at least 12X bigger, not 5X. -
Show 51 - 100 of 179 discussions
Digg is coming to a city (and computer) near you! Check out all the details on our 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is