Steve Humble of HiddenPassageway.com will stick a secret passageway and lair anywhere you want. Under some stairs? Sure! Behind a bookcase? Naturally! Behind a fireplace? Dangerous, but why not? It's the perfect way to keep your masturbatorium hidden away from private eyes, as it should be. [HiddenPassageway.com via Make]

May, known to many in the U.K. for his affinity of automobiles, speed being "Captain Slow," and other wheeled insanity, is prepped and ready to construct the two-story Lego house next weekend. More than 3 million bricks have been delivered to the building site so far.

The building plans state that everything must be constructed with Lego bricks, if possible. This includes the planned working Lego toilet, Lego plumbing and maybe even parts of the power supply. May has put out a call for brick donations, should you be in the area next week with a big bag of Lego.

Oh, and that sound you hear is just Jesus beginning work on his inevitable 1 trillion brick skyscraper. No biggie. [BBC]

Kamen himself calls his house a "cross between a technology museum of old stuff and Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory." Accurate only if Willy Wonka wore a jean suit. But, both are pretty admirable people, so it's a fair comparison.

Also cool are the sports facilities (tennis courts, basketball hoops, a friggin' softball field), plus a steam engine. All befitting an impressive man who was nevertheless able to put me to sleep at my own graduation. [WMUR - Thanks Eq!]

First Place - Vince Versna
Second Place - Richard Green
Third Place - Jeff

Modern country houses are crazy, because since Frank Lloyd Wright built that house over that waterfall, everyone and their mom has wanted to do radical new things to meld new structures with the grass, trees, hills and streams that were here eons before we walked upright.

Commissioned by a group called Living Architecture, the Dutch firm of MVRDV, with the British firm Mole Architects, came up with this 30-meter-long baby, half of which does not sit on anything. Here's all I could get from the description at Dezeen:

At the midpoint it starts to cantilever over the descending slope; a balancing act made possible by the rigid structure of the building; resulting in 50% of the barn being in free space, and giving a wide view over the Suffolk landscape, adjacent lake and surrounding gardens.

But still, if you and all your drunk friends decided to go to the end and jump up and down, wouldn't that house tip over, and hurt the girl and the sheep who idle and graze nearby? If no, then why not? I'm gonna guess the answer has something to do with long steel beams stuck down deep in the earth at the non-floating end. Then I'm gonna walk away, and try not to think about that poor little girl. [Dezeen]

Devise an image of your dream home of the future and send it to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Future Dream Home in the subject line. Name your files FirstnameLastname.jpg with the name you want to be credited with, and save them as JPGs, PNGs or GIFs. Send your entries in by next Tuesday morning, and I'll post the top three winners and rest of the best that afternoon. Get to it!

The company behind the main software, Home Automated Living, named their product HAL (yawn yawn yawn). And with this software, Electronic House says you could say something along the lines of "open music, open Led Zeppelin, play Black Dog," and just like that, you get Black Dog. HAL also works with the Leviton lighting system, the GE security system and the HAI thermostat—all over voice.

If you need a bit more futurism in the house, the HAL system will even speak the name and number of a caller when the phone rings, iPod shuffle style. Electronic House didn't go into the pricing of a system like this, but it's probably such a demoralizing figure that we're all better off not knowing. [Electronic House]

Listening Test: It's music tech week at Gizmodo.

Apparently, this property used to be some sort of musical venue called "Caveland" where the likes of Bob Seger and Ike and Tina Turner (!?!) once performed. As if the story wasn't already strange enough, the house is now for sale because the economy crashed and the family can no longer afford their balloon payment mortgage, so their attempting to sell the house for $300,000.

Apparently the house is finished, but most of the photos show the house in an unfinished form. But whatever, because the main point here is that these people are living in a cave. And that's just crazy. [Cave House eBay via Uncrate]

Designed by Architecture firm dRMM, the outer wall of the house moves along a 28 meter track and can sit over any part of main house's 16-meters linear frame, or move to cover any part of the 7-meter annex, or the open space in front of the 5 meter garage. A greenhouse looking structure is part of the main house, but is built in such a way that it almost looks like its own entity

The outer wall weighs 20 tons and can move across the entire track in about 6 minutes. The movement is made possible by 4 motors on wheels that are hidden inside the outer wall. They each use two DC car batteries that are recharged by solar panels.

And the tracks can even be extended so that the outer wall can cover a future swimming pool. The price wasn't disclosed, but I'm willing to wager that someone sold their soul to move into this house. Be sure to check out even more pics over at Dezeen. [dRMM via Dezeen via Home Design Find]

And you thought your apartment was small. We have added the mountain-side house, but head to Bouncing Red Ball for the rest of their selection. [Bouncing Red Ball]

My dear friend Anna sent me this one taken in Paris (thank you!) If you have any other really cool ones like this, send them to me at my email address.

The house was originally put together in the 1970s, and as such, many of the fittings now have a retro feeling, but that just adds to the charm. The space dwelling is now up for sale, and it is to go under the hammer this very day, which has us counting the Benjamins. Unfortunately, the 2000 sq ft extra terrestrial base station, with three floors, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, living room and scenic view has already attracted a $100,000 bid, which plants it about $99,999 out of our budget. Oh boy, it's back to our slimy, grimy, shoe box of an office until another UFO house comes on the market. We're optimistic. [CityNews]

Should you find your house destroyed by high winds, there may be hope. USC's Contour Crafting Device can construct a new home out of dense liquid materials in as little as 24 hours. Two story dwellings seem out of the question, but beggars can't be choosers. In the meantime, we strongly advise you take immediate shelter at the Denny's Unlimited Bacon Breakfast Buffet, just off Route 49. Thank-you.

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