Urban Apps: 13 Interactive City Maps, Tools & Guides
Chances are, even if you're a lifelong resident of a particular city, you don't know every nook and cranny, every food truck location, or the lore of every interesting local building. Apps for ...
Month: July 2013
Urban Fabric: Stretched, Stitched & Suspended Mobile Home
Imagine rooms that expanded and compressed depending on occupancy, then stretch your mind to conceptualize a whole home that works the same way - it folds virtually flat then unfolds as you move ...
Highest Steam: 9 Abandoned Railroad & Train Bridge Trestles
Durable by design and situated by necessity in difficult to access locations, train trestles are often all that remain when railroads are closed and abandoned. ...
Painting Robot Plans Each Stroke Of Its Own Masterpieces
If you think humans in creative professions aren't in danger of someday being replaced by robots, which ostensibly don't possess the ability to produce real art, you're going to want to watch ...
On Not Off: Giant Light Switch Mural is Brilliantly Literal
A photo-realistic mural with a nuanced message, this giant work of wall art is impressive in scale and a definite surprise to passers by. Complete with shade and shadow, the huge on-and-off power ...
Vertical Garage: Hide Cars Below or Lift Your Ride to the Sky
There are all kinds of houses designed to showcase your prized luxury vehicle or custom cruiser, but few can boast so blatant a mechanism to quite literally put your sports car on a ...
Stair Rover Goes Where Other Skateboards Can’t
An eight-wheel mechanism allows the unusual Stair-Rover skateboard to descend flights of steps the way conventional skateboards never could. Designed by Po-Chih Lai, the wheel system mounts to a ...
Fold-Out Room: 12 Ultra-Compact Living Pods & Systems
When you live in a small space, every square inch counts, and furniture that can expand and contract on demand makes it a lot easier to fit all the functions you need into your home without feeling ...
Iris the Eye-Controlled Camera: Blink Twice to Take a Picture
Simple, intuitive and innovative for the everyday photographer, Iris promises even more to the disabled, letting anyone control capture area, zoom level, the moment of a shot and other features ...
Sibling Spaces: Modular Rooms Made for Brother & Sister
For getting things done: a static, serious and refined work space is shared by the siblings. For everything else: there is a playful flexibility to be found in movable modules, hanging hammocks, ...
