The modern wave of technology focused highly on the miniaturization of certain everyday products.
Big flat-screen TV's lacking the bulk of machinery behind them, iPods, tiny cellphones (think back to when the Moto RAZR was brand-new) and HD cameras, And high-capacity memory chips that are no bigger than the end of your thumb.
Guy 1: Have you seen my new iPod? this thing is thinner than the CDs I uploaded to it!
Guy 2: Techsmallogy at its finest.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2million.