technomad

Sexy Ecocapsule fans of the world, today’s the day you’ve all been waiting for. After six years of development by...

Get ready to never pay rent, electric, water, and heating bills again. Ecocapsule, a portable and self-sufficient micro-apartment, is coming.

Courtney Boyd Myers is incredibly busy, organized, and talented. She leads audience.io, edits three newsletters, advises Second Home, pens columns on Medium, writes for The Next Web and The Daily Beast, and is a curator for Summit Series. Our favorite part: Courtney uses MakeSpace as her remote control home.

Andrew Tolentino of Dish Our Town talks about his family’s upcoming worldwide trip and how MakeSpace is upgrading their life. Although they’ll be at least 3,700 miles from New York City at any point in time during their trip, their belongings will be only one visit to MakeSpace.com away.

Over Skype, I ask, “Do you think of yourself as a technomad or a minimalist, in terms of the way you live?” Professional photographer Collin Hughes, who has worked with everyone from Nike to Wired, laughs and then responds, “Most definitely,” as he turns his laptop’s camera from his face towards four small duffle bags in a pile on the floor. “This is everything I own right now besides what’s in MakeSpace,” he says from off camera.

Any New Yorker will tell you that one of the hardest parts of living in New York City is leaving New York City. Spending three months in Spain is a distant dream for most of us, because traditionally, a trip like that would entail abandoning your lease, moving all of your stuff to a storage facility, and finding a new job when you get back to the States. After you’ve spent a month hunting on Craigslist for the perfect apartment, the last thing you want to do is give it up.

Have you ever wished you could pick up and move to a foreign country at a moment’s notice? Who hasn’t dreamt of spending six months in Madrid perfecting their Spanish and then flying back to New York like nothing ever happened? A new subculture of hyper-minimalist ‘technomads’ strive to make this dream a reality using all the conveniences modern technology has to offer.