Properly modified for habitation, shipping containers can transform into all sorts of things, including homes, offices, pop-up stores, cafés, and mechanic shops. Egyptian startup Qubix is well known ...

Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...

Wiercinski-studio, an architecture and design studio based in Poland, has created a portable tiny home. But unlike most tiny homes currently available on the market, Wiercinski-studio's isn't a ...

Sometimes squeezing a foam ball just isn’t an effective way to deal with stress. So if you’re the head of a giant corporation, or even the president of a large country, consider having this ...

Electric vehicle charging services provider Amply Power unveiled a semi-permanent yet portable charging solution called Inrush on Friday. Inrush uses repurposed shipping containers to hold multiple EV ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rob Goehring remembers muttering “Wait, what?” when Sam Austin delivered the rusting-metal shipping container to his Louisville steel yard. Austin, an ...

Students at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering are hard at work conquering a poop problem. The students recently received a grant of $1.18 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s ...

There are some situations in which extra office space is temporarily required, but a big move into a larger building would be overkill. That's where the ootbox comes in, as it's a rentable portable ...

For many areas of Long Beach, shipping containers are as much a part of the scenery as beach cruisers and the Queen Mary‘s smokestacks. “We are the second-largest port in the world,” says Kim Gros.

An international group of designers, engineers, and health experts created a way to repurpose shipping containers as portable intensive care units (ICUs). The units are called CURA pods, and able to ...