@takeshi: Well you can forget about dinner; they're recalling Lean Cuisine.

ripfire

@jdbaile3: Kitchen fire? All I saw was a microwave. Looks like they're only serving TV dinners.

takeshi

Looks like those Kiwis are still riding that Lord-of-The-Rings-was-filmed-here... wave.

LittleJon

Good thing it's under construction, otherwise I'd hate to eat there and have it rain.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

@jdbaile3: Yeah I figured a gadget blog wasn't somewhere I needed to hide my geeky-ness.

tande04

Worst place ever for a kitchen fire.

jdbaile3

@tande04:

I was going to say that tree place from Star Wars, but I assume that is what you are talking about.

jdbaile3

Looks to be maybe 50' off the ground. Maybe parachute from 120' high walkway?

Geisrud

No wheelchair access?

Hiphopopotamus

Looks like Kashyyyk.

tande04

someone is going to drop their knife and kill someone waiting for a seat.

Ibelieveinsandwitches

Beautiful.

Gann

So its thirty feet up the tree accessed by a 120 foot high walkway ... something seems a bit lopsided there

rDub

@Hiphopopotamus: Via trebruchet only.

bucho54

Don't let me catch you giving none of them muffins to them little beggars outside, ya hear me?

GiltProto

Saw this on NotCot, really is beautiful, but is it a "gadget?" C'mon guys.

Ideapimp

@bucho54: LOL! Please gawd, let there be video!

EVEs_Mako

@ripfire:

Spoon in the microwave?

jdbaile3

@Ideapimp: It's a building gadget... and really does it ruin your Gizmodo experience for them to put up a post about a tree house?

Thats Dr Bear to You

@takeshi: Nothing I like more with my Hungry Man Swedish Meatballs, then a fine wine.

Darkest Daze

@Hiphopopotamus: Good one!

melloki76

@LittleJon: Really? I don't see a single tie-in between LOTR and this treehouse. I do see a major tie-in with eco-tourism, which has always been a large part of NZ tourism.

The Kauri forests are North of Auckland and similar in popularity to California's redwoods. Seems like a perfect place for just this sort of structure.

Kia ora, mate.

shawn_dude

Theres a place in Oregon that has $1 milliion dollar cottages for rent (like a hotel) that are all tree houses, this place reminds me of those.

VideoVampire

@Curves: right up to the point where you roll out of bed and fall 30 feet to the ground.

Thats Dr Bear to You

HGTV did a whole series on Tree Houses and some of them are amazing. I saw one where a hotel had several tree houses as guest rooms and they were reserved for months in advance. Very cool concept.

Curves

@Ideapimp: Point taken, but one could see this a tech, in a very old school sense of the term. For example the swiss family robinson tree house could be seen as a gadget, so this tree house is interesting in that vein of "tech"

Thats Dr Bear to You

@Thats Dr Bear to You: I'm not cutting myself because of it if that's what you're asking, but it does seem odd to stray from the theme. I mean, maybe they read a good book last week. Probably not something to talk about on this blog, no?

Ideapimp

"Fifteen birds in a Redwood tree/Oh, what shall we do with these funny little things?"

herbvee

I always loved Ferngully

yatesjp1

This is a publicity stunt by Yellow Pages. There were plenty of TV ads for it a few months ago, but now nothing. It is a cool concept, but I wouldn't call it a restaurant: there is no space for a kitchen. It is just another cafe, serving coffee and food made offsite.

nimblesquirrel

looks like some elven architecture from lothlorien

jcous

@jdbaile3: How does the draft work in all this? at 32 feet up, and open air all around, you would expect it to get pretty chilly up there real quick.

Mmfok

"...the designers have crafted something that blends fantastically with its host redwood tree."

If said host redwood were about to give birth to a ginormous wooden balloon,that is!

Oh well,at least we know it Blends. Fantastically so.

FiveLiters

Boy that looks like fun!

trailingedge

Up there.. One pint of beer mate..!! ( ;-))

The Comedian

Looks like something from one of the Myst games.

Barion