Earlier this month, I went to visit a cavernous retail space on West 15th Street in Manhattan.

But instead of racks of clothes or gourmet snacks, it was filled with housewares from your

future life.

In the area marked kitchen, a milk container sends a text message if it spoils.

Over in the den, a compact 3D printer gives DIY a whole new meaning.

But maybe the biggest surprise is the enormous white thing propped up against the living room

wall.

It's a 12-foot kayak.

This actually is foldable.

It folds into about a 3-foot-by-two-and-a-half-foot bag.

So you could be like, I've got lunch in my bag.

Oh, and a kayak.

Yes.

A foldable, full-size kayak that you can ride down a river, but then just take home on

the subway.

It's new tech city, WNYC's look at how technology is changing the way we live.

I'm a new summer.

So this week, a tour of an exhibit called The Home of the Future.

People discover how future city dwellers may make the best of their tight quarters.

Then our Ilya Maritz learns how to figure out right now if your rowhouse is a good candidate

for cutting edge solar panels, or if it's doomed to be chained to the grid forever.

You looked at the numbers and it was like, that's just too expensive.

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