It's just a design concept for now, but perhaps if architect Marcin Panpuch's transparent, spherical houseboats get a warm response at the Royal Institute of British Architects' Future House London exhibit, punting on the Thames will become a lifestyle choice. The idea is to reclaim much of the empty space along the Thames' shores and docks by placing these solar-powered, motile three-story units into the water, slurping up sunshine and heat by day and releasing it throughout by night. It's an attractive design, if dubiously seaworthy, but I wouldn't start pinching your pounds to save quite yet; I'm sure one of the thousands of cheap, modular geodesic homes of the future should be going on sale right about now, right?

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