DailyDirt: Rental Space For Anything

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Tue, Jan 4th 2011 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Money can't buy happiness, but they say that you can try to rent it for a while. All sorts of things can be rented these days -- and at fairly reasonable prices, too. There's a pretty big real estate glut, so it looks like a bunch of places are trying to get attention with some interesting "shared space" ideas. Here are just a few rental ideas we've come across recently.

Rental kitchens are like incubators for culinary startups. Warning: may contain nuts, though.... [url]
A DIY science laboratory in NYC complies with CDC biosafety level 1 regulations. And nothing could possibly go wrong with a biohacker lab located near a major metropolitan area like NYC. [url]
CubeSats are available for a few thousand bucks -- and if you can find a spot on a rocket, you're set to go. However, rental space on a rocket isn't exactly easy to come by.... [url]

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Pixelation, 4 Jan 2011 @ 5:06pm

The science lab will obviously spawn Americas first superhero.
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- biohackers-R-us, 4 Jan 2011 @ 5:19pm
  
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  I just hope the biohacker lab space is designed to implode...
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- Hephaestus (profile), 4 Jan 2011 @ 9:24pm
  
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  "The science lab will obviously spawn Americas first superhero."
  
  Algae boy to the rescue!!! With his ability to leap small puddles in a single bound, blind evil doers with his pond scum breath, and create natural gas on demand.
  
  Thinking back that sounds like an old college roommate of mine.
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  - Pixelation, 4 Jan 2011 @ 11:01pm
    
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    "Thinking back that sounds like an old college roommate of mine."
    
    Uh huh, we know it was you.
    
    Algae boy solving Americas dependence on foreign oil.
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Eric Crampton (profile), 4 Jan 2011 @ 5:39pm

Spreading the fixed costs
My favourite one of these is a one-day-a-week restaurant in Wellington. They were closed Mondays, 'till the owner met an Ethiopean immigrant who'd always wanted to run a restaurant. Now it's Thai 6 days a week, Ethiopean on Mondays. The only Ethiopean restaurant in New Zealand, best I'm aware.

It's also fairly common among NZ craft brewers: the bigger guys with the equipment rent out their equipment some of the time to startups.
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Hephaestus (profile), 4 Jan 2011 @ 9:17pm

LOL ... My friend has a better bio lab in his garage.
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chris (profile), 5 Jan 2011 @ 9:05am

see also: hackerspaces
hackerspaces are popping up all over the world, in most major cities. they are a shared space for tools and expertise.

helping to build one in cincinnati has helped me learn all sorts of things about electronics and the local community.
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- Michael Ho (profile), 7 Jan 2011 @ 5:02pm
  
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  Hackerspaces sounds awesome. thanks for the link -- I'll have to include it in another DailyDirt someday.
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