Capsule hotels

This so fuarrrking cyberpunk I can't even. Sydney, Australia has two capsule hotels. https://www.thecapsulehotel.com.au/ http://www.thepodsydney.com.au/ Has anyone stayed in a capsule hotel? And were you totally LARPing Adam Jensen?

>>5584 Japan has had these for a long time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel

>>5585 Well, yes. That's kind of the point. It used to be only a Japanese thing, and showed up in Neuromancer. I guess the first place went in for the "Deus Ex" look, while the second just looks like what it is, a cross between a backpackers' hostel and a city morgue.

These seem cool but only under one condition: Cheap price. If the hotels want as much or a little less money than your average hotel, where's the point? The capsules in Neuromancer were for the outcasts and poor. It ain't /cyb/ if it costs a fortune.

>>5634 >I will look really smart by asking an obvious question everyone else already has an answer to If you really wanted to find out the answer to your tribial and dumb question you would take the effort of 2 seconds to search it up online

>>5637 > I am mad

>>5584 Blue leds and numbers in generic room number font look out of place

>>5638 Projection, an idiots way of saying "I am sorry for being an idiot". Nobody can be angry at an idiot for being an idiot, but you sure can laugh at them.

>>5641 The more I look at that pic in detail, the weirder it seems. >>5642 Except I'm not even the Lain you were talking to in the first place. Carry on being mad.

>>5643 >>5641 In reality they're washermachines.

>>5584 Pretty schway. I think it'd be neat to live in one, and find ways to utilize all the space to the maximum.

>>5634 38 us dollarydoos (55 aus) about as much as a motel

>>5652 I used to live on a boat, and I had about the same living space as one of these, I rigged a computer, and a gaming system to an overhead mounted screen. regrettably I don't have any pictures, but i can tell you that velcro tape is great for those kinds of projects, i didn't mind it, but many people said that the space was small and cramped

I stayed in a capsule hotel while in japan, it was pretty damn comfy ; but then again, I'm small-ish and dislike big beds in general. It provides a surprisingly good intimacy when the lid is closed, enough that you could fap without anyone noticing. All in all, would recommend, especially for the price, as long as you're not a grandma who can't even get up the ladder. (Mine was quite physical to get into due to the configuration.) Hope they become common all around the world in the coming decades. >>5658 Military I guess ? Does the bed flip up so you can store your stuff underneath secured by the padlock ? Was the Emergency Escape Breathing Device next to the bed more paranoia-inducing or more reassuring ? Cool pics.

Do you think it would make sense for someone living in a 1-room apartment to diy a capsule ? As a way to have a "real" room rather than just a mattress thrown on the ground, and some isolation from the noise of neighbours and the mess around. How would you go about it with the minimal tools typically available to someone living in those conditions ?

>>5666 Does the bed flip up so you can store your stuff underneath secured by the padlock ? yes, you have about the depth of the metal frame to store stuff, and i always kept mine locked too becasue one prank is to open the bed and there is a stick welded to the bottom (like your car hood stick) that can be deployed in the up postion, effectively lockign the sleeper in his bed, this is done as a prank. The breathing device was just there I guess, i became a light sleeper, and could be up and out to fresh air within a matter of seconds anyway (less than a minute) I was personally more upset that they told us that we could not have sleeping bags because we would die from the toxic fumes produced by melting nylon if our beds caught on fire (if im in bed and the fire is so big that it encompasses my bed, im probably dead anyway) capsule hotels have always fascinated me, but I think that is not really something that would take root in America outside of maybe Portland or Seattle, because most Americans want useless space anyway, also safety codes probably prevent a coffin sized living space >>5667 https://www.wernersobek.de/en/ this is the website for a German architect who designs ergonomic and eco friendly houses, he had a few modular pod based houses if im not mistaken , its sum cool stuff

>>5634 They're soykaf as far as cheap accommodation is concerned. I've stayed in hostels in Sydney for $25 a night no problem. The second link isn't even a capsule hotel. It's just a regular hostel, although they seem to think their dorms are called domes... >Single Bed in Mix Dome >Single Bed in Female Dome As for the capsule hotel, yeah, aesthetically it is cool, but that's all it has.

https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/capsule-bed.html I wonder how toxic-chemicals-ridden would be the cheapest ones. $300 is nothing. I imagine you could load this in a bed truck for an easy home-on-wheels. On second thought, probably too space-expensive, but it would have the advantage that you can unload it and store it somewhere safe for a semi-permanent dwelling. A hobo-home in the middle of nowhere with some basic comfort as far as bedding is concerned.

>>5674 what if we started an independent system of lainchan housing, like free capsule beds for those with membership or something spread out all around the world to make travel convenient, some were as cheap as 300$, and its just a 300$ vacuum formed box with cushy insides, its literally 22st century hobo status

>>5693 What happened to that Lain who had the block of land?

>>5693 This is a really cool idea, offering something like this for 20 a night based on a 'standard' design would be a great way to travel. There's enough of us that this could be very doable.

>>5693 So couchsurfing for lainons ? Do you think there are enough advantages to a capsule that it would justify the cost over a simple bed ? (Aesthetic, sure, 300$ is still a lot.) >>5703 >There's enough of us that this could be very doable. Enough willing to invest 300$+ in this and to welcome strangers met in a shady corner of the web in their home ? Maybe in the US, in UE or elsewhere I doubt it.