This Month in Pods
Pods + drones = FLYING PODS THAT YOU CAN SLEEP IN.
After yesterday’s examination of The Boxcar Children and my realization that the book’s glorification of minimal living in a tiny space might have something to do with our current POD TREND—that and the whole economic crisis thing, which was also what drove our heroes into the boxcar in the first place—I decided to do a quick survey of Recent Pod News.
“We’re not doing dairy farming any more and are looking to go more down the tourism line, rather than agriculture. As we have been developing the cafe we all thought pods would work. It’s something we have wanted to do for a while,” said [farmer Leigh Stamper].
Agriculture is out and pods are in. Turn that farmland into podland!
Seriously, though. Start investing in pods today, because they’re about to attach drones to the top and you want to be around when that takes off:
All the rooms in this futuristic ‘drone hotel’ can fly away
The hotel would hold 10 to 15 flying pods, called “Driftcrafts,” which would be attach to a central hub that houses the main lobby, bar, lounge, and restaurant.
Powered by the same technology as drones, each 200-square-foot pod could fit two adults, with space for a queen bed, a bathroom (encased in non-transparent walls), and a desk. To accommodate larger groups, the pods could be attached to one another.
To fly a pod, guests would work with the hotel staff to design an individual flight plan before they board. The pods would then detach from the hotel, and the guests would go their separate ways. The pod’s artificially intelligent system would then follow the plan automatically, so that guests could sit back and enjoy the scenery. At the end, they’d fly back to the hub and reconnect.
To recap, this company has essentially designed self-driving flying cars, and they’ve decided to use that technology to create flying pod bedrooms instead.
Not that this won’t immediately get turned into a variation on the whole “stackable apartments” idea, where all you need is a tiny studio that can be hauled from city to city and then stacked into an apartment building, and you can work anywhere!
These Portable, Stackable Studios May Be the Apartments of the Future
Because come on, which sounds cooler: an apartment that you have to drag around on the ground, or a pod that flies through the air using drone technology?
COME AT ME, POD FUTURE. Wrap me in your sweet aerodynamic embrace and let’s explore the world together.
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