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We always start our day with a glorious view of the piss-stained alley next to us, but some clever contractor in Australia designed and built a motorized house that rotates to the view of your choice (assuming you have nice views to choose from). The house is made of glass and steel and has a max speed of 1 revolution every 30 minutes. You can program it to always face the sun, or if you're like us, to always face the homeless man who sleeps outside. There's only one of its kind at the moment, but plans are being made to construct more rotating houses. Clever idea if you're filthy rich.
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Rotating House [via GizMag]
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Can't help but wonder how they managed utility hookups.
The people who can afford this house don't need sewage. They shit rainbows and sunshine.
there are quite a few rotating houses out there ... as i recall from one of them they routed all the utilities through the actual base pole that the thing uses to rotate.
It looks like there should be brightly colored wooden horses mounted on cams around the perimeter of the house.
Neat idea, but its just carnival tacky to me.
http://www.lighthouse.net.nz/
i remember hearing about this quite some time ago as well...
All of the rotating houses I've ever heard of are all in Australia, which makes me think that this is just the same house I keep hearing about over and over again.
sheesh just google it ... here's another one: roatating home 2
i want to shit rainbows and sunshine :(
I don't mind shitting rainbows, but the sunshine burns a bit!
Somebody made a much cooler twenty years ago in France, so that is nothing new. In fact, he still sells it: http://www.domespace.com/vinter/
Where the hell did my front door go!?
wiiiiiiii, I' friggin' dizzy
what do you do if you come home drunk? The front door is always moving....
More to the point, with $20 of generic vodka (drunk room-temperature over the course of 20 minutes) you too can have a rotating home, Gizmodo reader! Did I say "rotating"? I meant "spinning". Faster = Better.
I'm pretty sure that if you chase the drinks with a few Starburst(tm), you can even manage the bit about producing rainbows, although it won't be coming out the back-end. In your face rich Australians!
Hey tommy, bad boy, go sit in the corner....
Circle shaped house jokes asside, There are plenty of houses here in Texas that follow the sun, wind and floods... And they're sometimes hooked up to F-350's to follow you too.
There's a rotating home somewhere in san diego. It was on tv. They had a hard time getting things like its sewer hooked up but it has some cool stuff like a rotating garage floor to increase useable space.
Paradise has the link to that second (first) rotating home in San Diego. They are hoping to sell the swivel technology to other people who want rotating houses.
http://www.10news.com/news/1771426/detail.html
this article is dated 11/02/2002
I thought the Rotating House is the Senate.
Rotating Schomating, I want to see a house on the top of a huge rotating tower. CN Tower has nothing on me!
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