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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 28 2021, @04:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the vertical-living dept.

looorg writes:

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) by zocalo on Sunday November 28 2021, @10:34PM (2 children)

    by zocalo (302) on Sunday November 28 2021, @10:34PM (#1200342)
    Maybe not, but with some of the new flexible working policies you could do that if you didn't mind some of your hours being unsociable with those of colleagues. Or, depending on your job, you might even be able to turn that to your advantage for blocking out times when you could work without interruption; it's 13-days before the cycle would naturally realign with the 24-hour one, but if you pull a 24-hour day every 13 days (for you) that would re-align the cycle every 14 regular days making it possible to have a regular meeting cadence.

    Circadian cycles longer than 24 hours are actually fairly common, probably a genetic throwback to aeons ago when there were more hours in the Earth day, with various studies having been done to study the effects of this including this one that used a 26-hour cycle. [nih.gov]
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Reziac on Monday November 29 2021, @02:28AM (1 child)

    by Reziac (2489) on Monday November 29 2021, @02:28AM (#1200376) Homepage

    No, days used to be much shorter; here are some Handy Charts:

    https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/6Page58.pdf [nasa.gov]

    When the earliest life arose, Earth's day was about 15 hours.

    We still see the bio-legacy with people who run on about a 30 hour day... but if you look more closely, they actually run on two 15-hour days (with a nap between instead of a full sleep cycle). I myself did that when I was younger, and its not really uncommon in kids.

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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @06:35AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @06:35AM (#1200438)

      In 'olden times', a slightly longer cycle body clock was an advantage. The sun coming up each day provided a reset anyway and the slightly longer cycle made it easy to adjust to changing seasons.