SkyTran: 2-Person Maglev Monorail Could Replace Cars
Two-person monorail pods zoom down from the sky at a command from your smart phone in a futuristic commercial transit system set to be installed in Israel. The on-demand system appears to be a ...
Month: June 2014
Almost Human: 15 Frighteningly Realistic Robots & Androids
How would you react if you were chased down the street by a sprinting android wearing head-to-toe camouflage and a gas mask? Probably about the same way you'd react to finding a dead-eyed ...
No Clowning Around: 11 Sad Abandoned Circuses & Carnivals
The crowds have dispersed, the animal cages are empty and the striped Big Top is eerily silent... there's no clowning around when the circus leaves town. Moldering Away In ...
Nature’s Architects: 6 Incredible Animal-Built Structures
Of all the architectural greats we've come to admire - Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Henri Sullivan, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , to name a few - they all have one unflinchingly ...
Pop-Up Apartments: Post-Disaster Housing Prototype for NYC
New York City residents could have a stylish and safe place to live in less than 15 hours after a catastrophic natural or manmade disaster with these modular 'pop-up' apartments. Developed by ...
Exclucity: Unique GoPro Footage of Pyongyang, North Korea
Notoriously restrictive of the media, the North Korean government surprisingly granted the request of an outsider seeking to shoot a virtually unprecedented video: a continuous car tour of the ...
‘5 Bridges’ Wins Competition to Stitch Portland Back Together
In many cities, freeways cut through the heart of urban centers like fresh wounds faded to old scars, but what if there were a way to reintegrate the disparate sides across the ...
Graffiti Puzzles: Urban Art Chipped Off Walls for Reassembly
Pieces of graffiti that have been chipped off a wall are offered up in a box like a conventional puzzle in an exhibition that provokes thought on who street art belongs to, and whether or not it ...
Bizarre Cities: 7 More Strange Urban Wonders of the World
A retirement community for circus freaks, a village of Chinese dwarves and a gated community for people who claim to speak to the dead are among the world's weirdest settlements. Going beyond ...
Google Street Art: View Over 5,000 Past & Present Pictures
Using panoramic Street View technologies, Google is assembling an awesome collection of high-resolution images capturing over 100 works in 5,000 interactive photographs to date, including many ...
