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Walking House

By Miss Cellania in Gadget, Home & Garden, Video Clips on Oct 23, 2008 at 10:44 am



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A Danish art collective, in collaboration with MIT, has built a prototype walking house!

The 10ft high home is solar and wind powered and can stroll at walking pace across all terrains.

It has a living room, kitchen, toilet, bed, wood stove and mainframe computer which controls the legs.

The pod will take its maiden stroll around rural Cambridgeshire at the Wysing Arts Centre in Bourn on Thursday.

Øivind Slaatto, one of the designers, plans to live in the house in Copenhagen. Link -via Arbroath


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  1. Gail Pink
    Oct 23rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    If you're going to claim that this machine can "stroll at a walking pace" shouldn't the sample video actually show it "strolling" rather than, well, not moving much at all, really? Just asking.

  2. Scotchdrnkr
    Oct 23rd, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    Imagine what would happen after a night on the town when your better half decided she wasn't going to put up with you any more.

  3. ./w
    Oct 23rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    Howl's moving castle, finally!

    ./w

  4. Chan TheJunction
    Oct 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    Lol this house can sneak away while you are sleeping, great idea for pranks ;D
    But nontheless its totally useless great job ^^

  5. Ali S.
    Oct 23rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    You come back from vacation and realize that your house has run away. :(

  6. CheeseDuck
    Oct 23rd, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    Eh. That's not exactly a "walking pace."

  7. Christophe
    Oct 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    Isn't that why they invented RVs?

  8. ted
    Oct 24th, 2008 at 7:14 am

    They coulda just taken a few still shots for all the action in that.

    Te-dious.

  9. Aki
    Oct 26th, 2008 at 6:55 am

    We do not need to add up the existing traffic jam :p But nevertheless...Cool invention ;)

  10. master of the interweb
    Oct 26th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    This one is wind/person powered, der Rhinoceros Transport
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVLja80RWA8

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