Okay, where to start. We’ve all had treehouses, and we’ve all dreamed of living off the grid…at least for five minutes. So let me introduce you to Canadian Tom Chudleigh, who is in the business of making these fantasies come true…at the same time. See, Tom manufactures a product called “Free Spirit Spheres,” which are large egg-shaped, err, spheres that are built to be suspended from the trees…and lived in (tag line: “Habitat For The Untamed Spirit”). Really. He calls the design a marriage of treehouse and sailboat technology, and his aim is to give humans a different, very different, perspective on life. According to Chudleigh:
The forest canopy is a magical environment. Break the contact with the ground and the energy seems to shift. Its hard not to think of elves and fairies or to not feel the presence of the forest. That presence seems to dwell in the canopy where it can watch the meanderings below.
I wouldn’t mind feeling the presence of the forest, but as for the elves and fairies…
You can order your own from the Free Spirit Sphere web page (no price listed). And if you need to know more before you move in (but why would you?), you can check out the info page (which explains that the thing will swing like a motherf*cker every time someone moves in it), and the FAQ page (which explains that no, there is no bathroom, and suggests that the thing can be hung as high as 120 feet off the ground; wait a minute, isn’t that a bad combination?). Anyhow, you can see lots of pics here (umm, why does that Dude have a laptop in the Sphere; I mean, what’s the point?). The Free Spirit Sphere. Very tempting for anyone with small children…
“Damn! I really hate delivering the mail to these wackos…”
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