The Tiny Backyard Office
The Archipod is a shingled ball and home office designed to stand alone in your garden. Smaller models — 9'6" wide, 8'3" high — start at about $34,000 (plus delivery) and come with customizable floors, porthole windows, desks, and lighting. Here's a blueprint (circles within circles, basically), and here are more photos. The only things the Archipod needs to survive are "an electricity supply and a telephone connection from the house." Nowhere in the FAQ section does it address "What will happen if the door swings shut while I am inside the Archipod and it turns out the building is to aliens what bug jars are to us?" but the whole FAQ section is currently under construction. In the meantime, here's a video slideshow of people marveling at the Archipod.
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I love articles tagged as "the marriage was built to last but the house was built too small"!
@gigglefest Me too.
Now I need just a small plot of land where I can keep my tiny house and my tiny office, and everything will be awesome.
Does being wealthy enough to afford $34k for something as ridiculous as this mean you're rich enough to afford claustrophia treatment or something? I'd likely knock that thing over trying to escape a space that small.
@shenannies Don't even worry: "Because of its unique shape and the generous natural light from the roof dome, the 'Pod' actually looks bigger on the inside than the outside."
@Edith Zimmerman Bigger on the inside you say? So it's like a coconutxTARDIS hybrid?!
@Edith Zimmerman Oh no the roof done reminded me of 'Room'!
@boysplz I still reckon its only worth $34000 if The Doctor is actually inside it too. Also cos then I wouldn't have to do any work in my 'home office' cos I could just go and like, hang out with historical figures and save alien races. #DoctorWhoNerd
@Edith Zimmerman
As long I can put the lime in it.
could use a window or two… although then I guess it would become too site-specific… but if you're paying $34k for it, perhaps you have earned the right to dictate where you want the window.
eh. just throw some insulation and gyp board in a shed and call it a day.
Who lives in a coconut under the…errr….in the backyard?!
Of course the computer is a Mac, of course…
@DrFeelGood
How else could they use "pod"?
All I can think of when I look at this thing is murderers. Have you read Room? Or you know, watched Dexter? Yeah, this thing is made for psychos who want to keep their illegal activities away from prying eyes. If somebody in your neighborhood has one of these, I can pretty much guarantee that you will find unsavory things in there. Am I alone in this?
@batgirl I read 'Room', and when Edith mentioned the skylight thing that's the first thing I thought of. That book really got on my nerves after they got out.
Speaking of psychos there is a special on Jaycee Duggard and her captivity, I think it airs tomorrow.
@batgirl
You are not alone — one look at the picture and I was imagining the dangerous lunatic who would black out the little window, tell his neighbors it was a "sculpture," and keep a captive inside.
If you push from the inside, can you roll it around the yard? Like a hamster ball?
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@alpelican My favourite part isn't the way they work with the space, but that it's only 10 minutes from their regular home. When I was a kid, the only camp I had access to was a 6 hour car trip away. Later on I met a girl whose family camp was 30 minutes from their house. It was brilliant! They could just get up and go whenever they felt like it.
I think there is something to Edith's "bug jar of the aliens" theory. It sounds too much like ARTHROPOD to be trustworthy. Have you ever met a trustworthy arthropod? I'm guessing: NO.
@punkahontas Like those "prawns" from District 9? Are those arthropods?
@alpelican I think they're both arthropods AND anthropods! But yes, I bet that is exactly who is trapping people in archipods.
Am I the only one who saw this and thought "Death Star as built by Ewoks"? The lasers and satellite dishes are on the other side.
@Julie I didn't think that, but oh man, I am now!
Do you have to poke holes in the top? It looks like it's pretty air-tight once that door is shut.
Sure, they say it is more spacious than it looks, but in the video clip they NEVER show the inside. Just watching this makes me claustrophobic, and I work in cubicle land.
@Allison@twitter It makes me claustrophobic and I was trapped in my building's elevator for two fucking hours last night!
He was a quiet man. Nothing unusual about him really- he went to work on time, and waved hello to the kids. Well, there was the pod out back…but it wasn't until it began to smell that the neighbors even started to wonder if there might have been more than coyotes at work in the disappearance of the neighborhood cats….