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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.

Terrific Tech: 10 Futuristic Advances in Robotics

Robotics holds almost limitless possibilities for our future. These 10 recent advances in robot technology show us just how far we have already come.

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24 Poke-worthy Facebook Timeline Covers

Facebook's new Timeline caused a landslide of creativity, as all the artsy types and tech-inclined began to push this new playground to its creative limits.

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Wood Rings Translated Into Moody Piano Music

The rings displaying a tree's age in a cross-section of its trunk are translated into somber piano music by a record player and music software.

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Real Life Sim City: 3D Printers Turn Virtual to Reality

SimCity gets real in this fun 3D printing project that brings the virtual buildings to life. Who's up for playing Godzilla?

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Riding High: 30 Outrageous Bike Mods

One way to get more people to start traveling via pedal power is to add a little creativity to an otherwise mundane form of transport.

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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.

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ZAP! 27 Vintage Sci Fi Damsels In Distress

Vintage science fiction has as many damsels in distress as it has lurching robots and rubber-masked aliens.

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Curiouser and Curiouser: Handmade QR Codes Pop Up in NYC

Bridging the often-strange gap between analog and digital communication, the Curiosity Project brought a bit of whimsy to the streets of New York.

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Revolutionary Robots: 16 Cool & Crazy Creations

These 16 robots can save fish from danger, spray graffiti, help disabled people regain mobility, squeeze ketchup, stop your snoring and perform exotic dances.

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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.

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