You can ingratiate yourself with Marshall by taking out bandit camps and mutant nests; with Mayor Hagar by destroying armored convoys, roadblocks and large mechanical sentries; and with the doctor by tracking down useful tech upgrades housed in smallish
podlike structures called Arks and by extracting "feltrite" from crashed meteors.
The most recent, the Messner Mountain Museum Corones, is a
podlike complex designed by Zaha Hadid atop Kronplatz, elevation 7,500 feet.
Happee, "Conceptual model to explain, predict, & improve user acceptance of driverless
podlike vehicles," Transportation Research Record, vol.
The
podlike modular system was developed for commercial applications in both capture and polishing.
Ramon Esteve's
podlike Faz daybed for Spanish brand Vondom looks like a finely cut piece of crystallized quartz when closed; when open, it functions as an outdoor bed, protected with a heat-resistant batyline fabric.
Swelling into
podlike protuberances, as for example in Puddy Tat's Lunch (all works 2011), or branching into irregular fretworks, as in Into the Woods, these elements anchor highly complex compositions built up from disorienting strata of translucent and solid planes.
According to IKEA, inspiration for the Sovhotell came from Japanese capsule hotels, which offer very basic,
podlike sleeping accommodations.
The Batmobile is a sleek, black car with red trim, long tail fins and two
podlike connected windshields that slide forward to protect Batman and his partner, Robin.
Just because nice-looking chairs are neatly facing each other in a
podlike square doesn't mean they are accessible, easy to rise from, easy to move when a resident in a wheelchair joins in.
Hector flees; after several minutes of real-time tension, he ends up in a research lab where he meets an unnamed scientist (helmer Vigalondo), who tells him he can hide from his attacker in a large,
podlike contraption.