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.
Thanks to material science, our world is quickly changing shape. These new materials will usher in the future of medicine, construction and other industries.
These 12 concept mobile phone telephone booths recapture the isolation old public phones provided while enhancing the experience of conversing in the city.
Fossil fuels won't be around forever. Is the world prepared for alternative energy? Judging from these 10 amazing concepts, we'll be just fine.
The MapAttack! app for Android and iPhones turns a city, park or college campus into a virtual gameboard, conquered physically using the phone as a map.
Great architecture deserves to be seen, even if it will never be built. This revolutionary project puts visionary buildings right into the palm of your hand.
These devices can help hearing impaired people communicate with the hearing world via an amazing array of high-tech solutions.
Installed for the 2012 TED Conference in California, 'The Self-Assembly Line' is an architectural structure that was inspired by viruses.
These amazingly detailed objects are smaller than a grain of sand, printed with polymers at record-breaking speeds using advanced 3D printing technology.
It's refreshing to see ingenuity unleashed from societal mores on an industrial scale. Vehicle modifications can be incredibly fancy. These are not.
From the scenes shot by the nine lenses of Google's Street View cameras, artist Jon Rafman gathers the strange, the beautiful, the haunting and the poignant.