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Mon 12 Dec 2007Suspended disbeliefThumbs down:With the property market stalling, people with more money than sense might think of investing in a rainforest treehouse, a snip at €100,000.Canadian carpenter Tom Chudleigh's Free Spirit Spheres sound like high-tech tents equipped with a fridge, microwave and sink and suspended in forest trees. They are accessible by rope bridges and sleep four people. The creators say that "uses for these durable spheres are limited only by one's imagination". And the fact that they are suspended in trees and are accessible only by rope bridges.