Daishi
The floorplan reminds me of the Aloft hotel rooms where the headboard of the bed serves as a wall for the sink area.
Aloft is one of the only hotel rooms I have been in where I felt like the room was designed by engineers instead of interior decorators. There is a vid someone took of one of the rooms here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qom8wzRRvA
One of the things Aloft does right in their floorplan is they have a mirror door between the sink area and the toilet/shower. This allows the sink area to serve 2 functions without being in the bathroom so someone using the shower doesn't prevent someone else from doing makeup/brushing teeth etc.
Another thing Aloft gets mostly right (for a hotel) is they omit a lot of useless dresser space that often serves as storage space for a single bible that is still done as some kind of 1800's superstition or something and replaces it with room to set and store luggage. I always find it strange when I walk into a hotel room with no place other than the floor or the other bed to set my luggage.
Another cool thing about their design is the little media box you can use to charge electronics (AC, USB etc.) or drive the TV from a laptop or Netflix streamer (useful for people who travel like this http://i.imgur.com/vZKCLLA.jpg ). Even though it's a hotel room it's one of the better small space designs I have seen.
It's not posh but I feel like aside from a flatter TVs most hotel rooms probably haven't really evolved in 50+ years.
BigGoofyGuy
I think that is a really neat idea. It gives more space and utility where there space is at a premium. Perhaps there could be a non-motorized version so people could use their muscles (exercise) to change things? It could also lower the price too.
I think it could also be used for small houses too. One could build a one room house and put it inside. I have seen (online) some really small houses that this would be perfect for.
VirtualGathis
Am I the only one who thought of Fith Element and Corbin's apartment?
Kris Lee
Their website http://cp.media.mit.edu/research/67-cityhome is not available.
The Skud
The idea seems to need a bit of work yet, but has hope. Don't really like the hand guestures though, what if someone is reclining on the bed and another waves? Does he/she disappear into the module, like the old sitcom joke of the Murphy Bed folding back into the wardrobe? And what happens to the plates etc. on the 'dining table' if the wrong move is made? The possibilities for disaster are endless . . .
Conny Söre
Nice but the big issue is that wastewater somehow has to be led out of the moving box. I'm sure that can be solved but to me a failure in those mechanics seems to be a big and expensive risk.
Aloysius
Good idea, even if it's too over complicated by the sensors and hand gestures.
The only drawback is the workstation; I'd rather have a design where I don't have clear out my computer, papers, books, etc. just to stop and sip my soylent :-)
Gargamoth
It's a sad and cramped future. Feeling closter phobic. Definitely Fifth element(Bruce Willis scifi.movie) influence.
Andrej Radoš
Yess, the speaking tools that constitute the 99% has to be stored somewhere when not at work as the rich indulge themself in multiple mansions scattered around the world.
John Barnhart
The sliding sinks seem problematic to me. They would require flexible drains.