Feng Burger

At first glance, there's nothing exotic about a Burger Pod. They're squat, mass-produced burger-shaped trailers that sit on vacant lots and dispense fast food. Very little there beyond the obvious—until you consider their origins at a Hong Kong engineering firm.

The Chinese are particular about their designs, and for good reason. A design with good feng shui—one that satisfies the universe's sense of metaphor—attracts chi, the energy that raises mountains and pushes rivers and draws good fortune near and keeps tax collectors far away. Whether by accident or design, no one can say, but the Burger Pods have potent feng shui. Where normal men would see nothing but gleaming stainless-steel cabinets and a charbroiling grill, a feng shui practitioner would see arms and hands, cradling the Burger Pod's occupant and bathing her in chi.

Alas, those occupants were unable to deliberately manipulate this chi, like a sorceror might. But in the spare moments when patties didn't need flipping and onions didn't need slicing, they daydreamed, and the chi took it from there.