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    Default The rotating house - a geeks dream

    I have seen lots of weird gadgets in the past but this one tops them all. A house that can be rotated by 360° around a central core that contains all the plumbing and connections to the house ? Sounds a little bit futuristic don’t you think ? You could apparently rotate the house in correlation with the moving sun for instance. It is also nice to get a fresh view out of the window by simply rotating the house a little bit. Take a look at the pictures..

    I personally think that this house and the view looks amazing. You might be wondering about the speed of the rotation, it would not be fun to get sick every time the house is rotating. There are several rotation speeds actually. The slowest and default speed is 40 meters per hour which means a full rotation will be performed in about 2 hours. The fastest rotation speed is 160 meters per hour which means that a full rotation will take 30 minutes to complete.

    The rotation is controlled by the computer interface pictured above. You first select a room of the house and then press the orientation of that room. The house will be automatically moved into that direction. The button follow the sun looks pretty interesting. I’m not absolutely sure but this could mean that you can select a room and rotate it the way that the sun is always shining into that room.

    The inside is looking great as well. I’m wondering how much it would cost to buy the house ? If you want to look at more pictures and even see a short movie about the rotating house visit the Everingham rotating house website. Found at the hacked gadgets blog.


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    waste of money.

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    Looks awesome...and would be oh-so-fun to confuse the poor UPS man... I wish they'd list (as an example), what the house in the picture cost... divided up by land/planning/labor/materials etc. That'd be fun to know.

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    Hm, so is your computer/car/schooling and... no.
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    Shame it doesn't go faster. Would be great if there was someone you didn't want in, trying to get in.

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    A "Merry-Go-Round" house. They should install some horses around the outside patio.
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    So where's the front door?

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    That would be wicked.. hmmm i dont like the view out of my living room window... then you can just change it lol. but the ups man would be really funny... guess where the door is today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harper View Post
    So where's the front door?


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    Quote Originally Posted by HAVOC View Post
    A "Merry-Go-Round" house. They should install some horses around the outside patio.
    with lots of lights!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Switch View Post
    with lots of lights!
    enough to be visible from space!!



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