Complex sentence: Residents and volunteers have worked together with design firms to create a new form of self-contained sleeping unit called a "MiPod" with similarities to the 1970s "sleep capsule" or capsule hotel concept.
Split into simpler sentences: Residents and volunteers have worked together with design firms to create a new form of self-contained sleeping unit called a "MiPod". It has similarities to the 1970s "sleep capsule" or capsule hotel concept.