Like a Jedi, you control this micro apartment with your hand
MIT Media Lab’s CityHome is essentially an entire apartment packed into a magical, transforming box that’s controlled by touch and motion sensors.
Pull your arm back, and a bed or dining table appears. Wave your hand, and the lights dim and blinds close. Gently touch the counter, and the entire unit moves backwards or forwards, revealing (or concealing) a bathroom.
Like the eight-room, 420-square-foot apartment in New York, the idea is to pack as many living areas into as small a space as possible. In the case of CityHome, a 200 square foot apartment seems as though it’s three times larger.
Want one for your own micro apartment? It’s a very real possibility. Lead researcher Kent Larson told Fast Company that the plan is to bring CityHome to market through either a startup or a commercial sponsor.
Somebody bank roll this thing right now.
