Lifebook: Single Device that Combines Every Gadget
One of the marks of our modern culture is the proliferation of gadgets most of us carry around. From digital cameras to cell phones to tablet computers to laptops to MP3 players, we have our ...
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Hey You, Get Onto My Cloud: Bizarre Floating Transport
As far as transportation goes, we have not yet seen any truly innovative changes in our lifetimes. Sure, new types of cars and faster trains pop up every year, but where are the big changes that ...
Concrete Islands? An Incredible Vision for Venice
Venice is sinking, and the city of canals is in dire need of solutions that can help it survive. This isn't one of them. Architecture firm Bam! has envisioned a fantasy future in which residents ...
Urban Reuse Goes Underground: Subterranean Community Park
With the recent expansion of the High Line Park and the growing popularity of urban reuse projects, city dwellers have come to appreciate the potential in unused spaces. One of New York City's ...
13 Energizing Batteries: Mini Nukes to Hand Cranks
The batteries we use in dozens of gadgets every day have stayed more or less the same for many years, but that doesn't mean designers aren't dreaming up innovative and sometimes perplexing new ...
The Future is a Beach: 5 Artificial Floating Island Cities
According to futurists, the likelihood that humans will one day have to move off of the land and into the oceans at some point is high. Population growth, climate change and limited resources ...
Iconographic Architecture: The Unique Style of MVRDV
MVRDV has a vision for the future – not just for architecture, but for urban life. "The desire, if not the obsession, if not the necessity, is to make cities more suburbanized," principal ...
Stylish Skyways: 13 Boldly Futuristic Bridge Concepts
Spanning valleys and waterways, bridges perform a basic but essential function: getting us from one side to the other. But what if we expanded on that purpose, inserting everything from opera ...
Stop, Look and Love: 8 Redesigns of Classic Traffic Lights
We all gaze upon the humble traffic light nearly every time we climb into a car and take a journey, whether it's down the street for a jug of milk or across the country for a great adventure. ...
Totally Tron: Real-Life Designs Based on a Retro Movie Classic
When the first Tron film was released in 1982, no one was quite sure what to expect. The concept seemed strange and futuristic, and it was unlike any other movie made before it. Now, nearly 30 ...
