A MAN has built a high-tech treehouse, complete with finger-print entry, an app-controlled beer dispenser and voice-controlled LED lights — and it’s all solar powered.

    Jono Williams, a 28-year-old man from Palmerston North in New Zealand’s North Island, dreamt up the plans three years ago over drinks with a friend. His feat is up and running US$67,000 later.

    With 360-degree views from 10 meters up, an in-couch beer dispenser, high-speed Wi-Fi, wireless sound system, fingerprint entry, a projector, dimmable colored LED lighting from solar power, the Skyphere is the perfect bachelor pad.

    “My favorite part of the tower by far is my smartphone activated, refrigerated, in-couch beer dispenser,” Williams said.

    “The dispenser can hold 12 beers and can chill an additional 36 beers at the same time.”

    A plastics engineer, graphic and Web designer, Williams was an amateur in steel construction before developing The Skysphere.

    But he managed to make everyone green with envy, because the green energy treehouse isn’t just self-sufficient and decked out with toys — it’s also sturdy.

    His initial plan was to build a structure in a tree, or between multiple trees. After fighting with designs for months — trying to come up with something that would be completely robust, he let go of the idea of building the tower in a tree, he said.

    (SD-Agencies)