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IKEA has furnished and is renting out a 10 m2 apartment in central Tokyo for about a dollar per month. It's clearly a gimmick of sorts as the furniture in the apartment are worth a lot more then that. Still looking at the pictures it looks like living in a nicely furnished prison cell, that is also very high (floor to ceiling). Any takers for such compact living? I dont think climbing around on ladders to get around is for me.
It seems very futuristic though; it is a staple of sci-fi to pack people like sardines in a can (Ripley's apartment in aliens, 5th element etc., etc.)
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/25/business/ikea-japan-tokyo-tiny-apartment-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.ikea.com/jp/ja/campaigns/ca00-tiny-homes-pub616dcf20
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @06:05PM
I switched over to 6 - 6 - 6 hours as part of a crew supporting our bike rider on Race Across America (RAAM). We had plenty to do while he crossed the country (~10 days). Our schedule was a regular sequence of rotation between a motorhome and the rider-following-minivan, with the motorhome heading off the course to shop every day. With the 18 hour schedule everyone had a shot at day and night duties, and also sleeping day and night. For the event it worked out very well, we all did 12 hours working and 6 sleeping.
The previous year the same crew was on a 24 hour schedule (16 hours working and 8 sleeping), but by the end of a 16 hour shift many of us were starting to make mistakes.
After the 18 hour "day" adjustment (which was easy in the context of the race), it took me weeks to get back on a normal schedule. I was forever dozing and waking up at inconvenient times. Sort of like jet lag, but lasted much longer.