I need one.

[theweaselking]

A pair of engineers in London have come up with a "building in a bag" -- a sack of cement-impregnated fabric. To erect the structure, all you have to do is add water to the bag and inflate it with air. Twelve hours later the Nissen-shaped shelter is dried out and ready for use.

The structure is intended to improve upon two current methods of providing emergency shelter: tents, which provide only poor protection, or prefabricated, portable buildings that are expensive and difficult to transport. Dubbed the Concrete Canvas, the shelter incorporates the best aspects of both forms. It is almost as easy to transport as a tent, but is as durable and secure as a portable building.

The inventors are engineers pursuing a master's degree in industrial design engineering at the Royal College of Art in London. William Crawford and Peter Brewin came up with the idea when they were thinking of an entry for the annual British Cement Association competition for new and innovative uses of concrete.

They thought of an inflatable concrete tent after hearing about inflatable structures that are built around broken gas pipes to carry out repairs.

Comments

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I need it.

I need it or I'll explode.

Seriously, I can think of some fun uses for those. They generaly involve hitting people with fake weapons though.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Fake weapons? What would be the point of that?

Use the real thing, or don't bother.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Those tend to result in either the death of my friends or myself (or both), which isn't terrably fun.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the herd needs to be thinned, man.

It's for the best.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

"Join the army! It's just like the XBox, only you die!"

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

s/thinned/eradicated/

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No, some of them can live.

Even if they do hit each other with sticks for fun.

(Unlike me, of course, who hits people with sticks, and elbows, and knees, and all that good stuff, for fun.)

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

"you can kill some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't kill all of the people all of the time, cause there'll be no one left to grow the food."
-Living Steel