Shipping Container Houses.

Awesome article on Yahoo's site about some people who made a house out of shipping containers. Some of these are really cool and it's an interesting way to recycle something and make it useful.

They are a little expensive though, the econopod, which is basically a single container with walls and main doors, goes for $26,000 cdn (that's Canadian, eh). I think it's a cool application, and I like a student housing project in Amsterdam is using them as a cheap, economical, and environmental way to expand housing in a dense region. I think it's just really cool.