WebUrbanist | Archived Articles by Author: Steve
A stellar writer and amazing researcher, Steve has brought a twist of creative humor into the mix with articles on geek cake designs and brilliant book artists, extreme house boat designs and real-life nanotechnology applications, dramatic guerrilla marketing campaigns and steampunk art and fashion. Steve can also be found writing away about insane news and inventions of Japan over at InventorSpot.
Going Viral: 10 Neat Gadgets for Germaphobic Geeks
Computer viruses aren't the only infections you have to worry about if you're a geek, gamer or gadgeteer who lives in the scary, paranoid land of germaphobia.
Click Here to Read More »»Clearly Cool: 15 Amazing Glasses, Sunglasses & Frames
Now see here! The ayes may have it but now you can too, thanks to these amazing eyeglass and frame designs that cornea the market on out-of-this-world eyewear.
Click Here to Read More »»Trash Hits: 11 Scent-sational Concept Garbage Trucks
These 11 scent-sational concept garbage trucks trash traditional artistic sensibilities while maintaining the “can”-do spirit today's waste management demands.
Click Here to Read More »»High Anxiety: Rooftop Excavators Tear Down from Up Top
Rooftop excavators on highrise buildings are the demolition equivalent of painting one's self into a corner, several hundred feet above the ground.
Click Here to Read More »»Surreal Estate: China's Village of Empty Villas
In the Year of the Dragon, white elephants abound as an eerie village of empty and abandoned villas epitomizes China's ever-expanding real estate bubble.
Click Here to Read More »»McArchitecture: 10 Sizzlingly Odd McDonald's Restaurants
I'm livin' it! These 10 sizzlingly odd McDonald's restaurants show that when it comes to architectural innovation, there's life in the old grill yet.
Click Here to Read More »»Korean Twin Towers Fail to 'Cloud' Memories of 9/11
“The Cloud” is due to rise in Seoul by 2015 – that is, unless a storm of controversy centered on the design's alarming resemblance to 9/11 blows the plan away.
Click Here to Read More »»Art Attack: Berlin Drivers Paint The Town Red
“Is this vandalism or art?” asked Bezirk following one of Berlin's most infamous guerilla art attacks. After a year's reflection, the answer may be “both”.
Click Here to Read More »»Star Cars: 10 Past, Present & Future Robot Space Rovers
These 10 roving robotic explorers were designed to roll over unearthly alien terrain where no one has gone before, and where no roads await their wheels.
Click Here to Read More »»Road Work: 10 Pointed Examples Of Traffic Cone Art
When it comes to utility in the service of street safety, orange traffic cones stand alone... except when they stand together and the result is called Art.
Click Here to Read More »»Global Warning: The Arctic's Abandoned DEW Line Stations
High above the Arctic Circle, the mid-1950s vintage remains of the DEW Line sit preserved by some of the coldest temperatures found outside Antarctica.
Click Here to Read More »»Drive-Thru Office: Osaka Japan's Gate Tower Building
The Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan, is a hybrid highway-cum-skyscraper that redefines telecommuting with a dash of “Lost in Translation."
Click Here to Read More »»Sink Different: Macquarium Gives Used iMacs New Life
The Macquarium is a Mac and a “P Sea”. It's an aquarium well worth monitoring and the only floppy drives included are the tails of your finny friends.
Click Here to Read More »»Enter The Dragon Building: Beijing China's Pangu Plaza
Fire-breathing dragon, Olympic torch, or both? The Pangu Plaza complex turns up the heat in the race to reshape Beijing's increasingly Dubai-esque skyline.
Click Here to Read More »»Thirst Class: 10 Wet, Wild & Wacky Water Towers
Artistic water towers are a drop in the bucket these days. Here are 10 of the wettest, wildest and wackiest suspended water tanks... you're welcome.
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