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Technology is a core content area not only for WebUrbanist but in our daily lives whether we like it or not. These innovations, creations and aberrations are meant to incite conversations about the past, present and future relationships of humans and the technologies that we deal with all the time and that envelop, support and grow our urban environments in ways we can often not predict.

Best Print This: 12 High-Tech & 3D Printer Design Ideas

Concept designs that use coffee dregs or pencil stubs instead of ink, forgo paper altogether or even produce 3D objects bring printers into the 21st century.

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Steampunk Art: 11 Steam Powered Character and Fiction Elements

Steampunk is known best for its old timey costumes and cog-laden accessories, but there's a whole side to the movement that's exploding in popularity: Artwork.

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Vectorial Elevation Vancouver: Telerobotic Art Installation

An interactive light show in Vancouver called Vectorial Elevation allows users to customize their own light art designs from anywhere in the world.

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Gamers Beware: 10 Innovative Video Games that Will Blow Your Mind

Sheer graphics and technology aren't everything. Here's a look at 10 of the most interesting and innovative games that have graced our living rooms.

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Fantastic Flash: 15 Fun & Dynamic Websites

Fun, dynamic, engaging, interactive - these beautiful Flash websites are among the best on the web with games, virtual exploration and more.

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Sodom & Gomorrah: Dark Digital Art by Alessandro Bavari

Artist Alessandro Bavari vividly imagines a dark and depraved Sodom and Gomorrah in this Bosch-like, biblical digital art series.

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A History of Phones: 9 Telephone Transitions that Rocked the Industry

With how incorporated phones are in our lives, it's strange to think how quickly they've risen from landlines, to car phones, to smarter than our old computer.

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Dazzling Digital Illustration: 15 Artists to Watch

Modern technology and raw talent come together in the stunning and often surreal digital illustrations of these 15 noteworthy artists.

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Even Robots Get the Blues: Photos by Markku Lahdesmaki

Robots do laundry, ride bicycles, hit the sauce and hang out in seedy parts of town in an imagined world where they coexist with humans in relative peace.

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Gallery of Pseudo-Victorian, Steampunkesque & Retro Robots

These creative technological inventions have a streak of steampunk, robots built into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical fantasy or steampunkesque robot art.

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Dial4Light: Turning Street Lights On Via Mobile Phone

A groundbreaking cost-cutting, energy-saving program in Germany called Dial4Light requires pedestrians to activate street lights using their cell phones.

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Urban Red Planet: Human Habitats On Mars

When humankind finally sets down roots somewhere other than the planet of our birth, chilly, lifeless and distant Mars is our most likely destination.

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App Provides Glimpse of Phantom City

An iPhone app allows users to explore the New York City that could have been if visionary architectural proposals had become reality.

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Drive the Friendly Skies: The History of Flying Cars

Ever since the invention of the car and the airplane, dreamers have been trying to combine the two. Today, they may be closer than ever to making it a reality.

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Living Space: 10 Highrises For The High Frontier

These 10 international, interplanetary space habitats express our high hopes for the high frontier: the wide open "living space" far above the clouds!

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