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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.

The Futuro House: Space Age Architecture Comes Home!

Suddenly it's 1968! Matti Suuronen's plastic fantastic Futuro house let homeowners live in Space Age style without ever having to leave their front yards.

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Saving Time: Ten Trippy Time Capsules

Time capsules... messages from today to the world of tomorrow! Time capsules may not be time travel but they're the nearest thing to it we've got.

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Mind-Bending Digital Photo Manipulation by Erik Johansson

Roads unfurl like fabric and human faces are frighteningly elastic in the digitally manipulated photographs of artist Erik Johansson.

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Crowdsourcing the City: Amazing 3D User-Submitted Image Modeling

Crowdsourcing has been used with great success in many industries, but now it's moving into the public sector. Today, the public is helping shape cities.

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Concept Motorcycles: 20 Bad-Ass Bikes To Hope For In 2010

Lean, mean and sometimes even green, concept motorcycles often make us what to head out on the highway. Here are 20 of the most bad-ass bikes to hope for in 2010.

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Sound Mirrors: Before Radar, Hearing Was Believing

Sound Mirrors, Acoustic Horns and War Tubas were the only means of detecting enemy aircraft before the invention of radar - and for some time after.

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A Separate Reality: Digital Art by Alex Andreyev

Ghostly alien landscapes, floating structures and otherworldly creatures characterize the "hermetic art" of digital painter Alex Andreyev.

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15 Cool Hi-tech Spy Gadgets, Oh Wait...Creepy Gifts for Stalkers?

Do you have someone for whom you need a present but would classify as naughty and not nice? Here are 15 Cool Hi-tech Spy Gadgets, Oh Wait...Creepy Gifts for Stalkers?

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50 Geektastic USB Gadgets & Funky Flash Drives

Some USB drives are so cool you might drool, while some are utterly bizarre. Here are 50 geektastic USB gadgets and funky USB flash drives.

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Powerful Prosthetics: The Ultimate Integration of Design and Technology

Prosthetics have been used to replace lost limbs since there have been limbs to be lost; peg legs and crutches have transformed into power suits and robot arms.

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Gray-Sky Thinking: 15 Uniquely Modern Umbrella Designs

From the best in pugilistic umbrella-mayhem to the sweetest way to woo a loved one, these 15 examples are guaranteed to chase the clouds away.

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15 Fantastic New Futuristic Tech & Gadget Designs

From cybernetic contact lenses to contraptions that shoot you up to rooftops in seconds, these 15 futuristic gadgets would make even Batman jealous.

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The Future Sounds Like This: 10 Magnificently Modern Musical Instruments

Ten gorgeously weird and entirely unexpected ways to woo us with music, courtesy of the latest technologies.

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7 Wonders Of The Modern Shipping World

Here are 7 wondrous examples of epic modern ship design, all demonstrating that when it comes to innovation, technology and breadth of ambition, the best designs are the ones making waves.

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Enthused and Infused: 19 New Directions For Teapot Design

Think you could recognize a teapot when you saw it? Check out these 19 examples before you answer - because strange things are brewing in the world of teapot design.

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