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Watch: UFO-like floating houseboat takes you on the voyage of your dreams

Luxury yacht builder creates this solar-powered circular ship that’s like nothing you’ve ever seen

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A UFO is, typically, something you’d most likely associate with the skies. You know, flying around, scaring the daylights out of people, launching Internet hoaxes and the like. But now, you may have to look to the seaward--an Italian company called Jet Capsule plans to change everyone's perception of UFOs with its latest solar powered disc-shaped homeboat.

Punning on the “F” in UFO, the Italian futurists are calling this new luxury yacht the Unidentified Floating Object. The company has recently unveiled its latest version of the circular houseboat: UFO 2.0. The concept and design of the UFO 2.0 remains largely unchanged when compared its predecessor--fabricated using carbon fiber and fiberglass, this alien-like floating house smartly utilises solar panels to power its interiors consisting of a submerged bedroom, a hot tub, a central room, a kitchen, and bathrooms.

Compared to the original UFO, it gets a bump in living space with an increase from 12.5 m (41 ft) to 20 m (65 ft) in diameter while the twin 80 horsepower engines can push it along at a stately speed of 9 knots (16 km/h).

In addition to solar energy, the developers promise that the luxury yacht will come with wind and water turbines. The floating UFO is also capable of smarts like converting rain water or unpurified seawater into potable water, or for watering the vegetable garden that happens to be located within the confines of the houseboat. 

Furthermore, the craft can align itself with its inbuilt compass and is even unsinkable in rough sea conditions owing to its unique, low center of gravity and high buoyancy design. However, if you’re looking to purchase this creation, you still have time to pile up the cash for it--Jet Capsule envisions that first UFOs will be available sometime in 2018.

Watch Jet Capsule's UFO 2.0 in action in the video below:

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