MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the finest schools in the nation. The students there have a long and prestigious history of creating new and innovative technology, but they have just made something that I personally was impressed by. The built a house. A house that walks.
The house itself, while small in size compared to a stationary home, has many of the basic luxuries of the modern home. It has a kitchen, working toilet, a bed, and even a stove that burns wood. So a single person could live quite comfortably in this home by themselves it seems, but it might not yet be the best place for your family of four.
The house's mobility is quite astounding, being engineered to walk as fast as the average person, about 5km/hour. MIT says that this will encourage nomadic excursions for people, and to show them that a house is more than just a place you come back to after a trip, the house can now go with you.
This to me something straight out of the land of imagination, and dropped into reality in the best possible way. In time, if we continue down this line of thought and creation, it may only be years until we have other and more efficient kinds of mobile houses. The time has come to redefine what is a mobile home.
http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2008-11/house-walks
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