with the Palo Alto Fire Department examining the home on July 29. Inspectors found that the house failed to have smoke detectors in the sleeping pods; used extension cords instead of permanent ...

One pod serves as a one-bedroom, one-bath guest house, or "accessory dwelling unit," while the other works as a studio. "When the owners purchased the home in 2023, they were initially drawn in by ...

In 2021, they launched their first house, combining the use of sleeping pods, already popular in parts of Asia, with the comforts of a fully furnished home in Palo Alto. Since then, they have ...