A man was inspired to create these high-tech, tiny homes after living in a dumpster for a year

Meet Jeff Wilson: a former IBM project manager and dean atHuston-Tillotson University, who also happened to live in a dumpster for a year.What started as a project on minimalist living and sustainability developed into KASITA, Wilson's company that is making high-tech, moveable homes.Scroll down for more of Wilson's story and a closer look at KASITA housing.Wilson started off working for IBM during the dot-com boom, but quickly became frustrated with the corporate grind. After burying his Rolex in the desert, Wilson eventually found himself as a dean of a university with the novel concept of living in a dumpster."The idea was to test the absolute limits of what one needs to have a pretty good life," Wilson told Tech Insider. "And although it wasnt originally aimed at housing, the idea around housing evolved from it."So Wilson sold the majority of his possessions for a dollar a pop, getting the word out by posting a Facebook message his students could see. He showered at the University and fit the rest of his personal belongings in a backpack."One night, lying on my back in the dumpster staring up at the stars as we all do, I had that 'aha' dumpster epiphany, if you will," he said. "There was something here to solve for one of our countrys biggest problems."So Wilson set off to design KASITA ' a 208-square-foot home that can easily be set up and moved anywhere.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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