A device called CityHome will make even the smallest hole-in-the-wall apartment seem cavernous. Invented by MIT’s Media Lab’s Changing Places group, this technology will make your living space appear from two to three times larger. CityHome is a mechanical box, measuring the size of a medium-sized closet, and stays in an apartment while storing a bed, a cooking area, a kitchen surface, a closet, a dining room table, and a bit of excess space for whatever else you need to store. All of the household items and objects stowed in CityHome are controllable via voice control, touch, and gestures.
There is an array of sensors onboard the device. Motors inside of the cube enable the device to emit each household component as per the user’s command. The intricate motors work just as well as power windows. The whole module itself has a mobility range of just a couple of feet to move to the space of your choosing and back to its resting spot within the box. All of this technology enables user-friendly and cooperative interactions between the device and the user.
The device can compress and extend the room on demand, and is thus ideal for young people in urban environments who pay hefty prices for miniature living spaces. Basically, users of CityHome could bring this box into their small apartments and improvise with this technology to get the most bang for their buck with the space allotted to their budgets. Kent Larson, the team leader for this project, knows that this technology will eventually be a feasible for city people to purchase, enabling more living space.
The team has not yet announced when CityHome will be up for grabs, or how much this device will approximately retail for.
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