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Author: Kurt Kohlstedt

WebUrbanist was founded in 2007 by Kurt Kohlstedt, who currently writes and edits articles and episodes at 99% Invisible and can be found on Twitter @KurtKohlstedt

Flat-Pack Mobile Architecture: This Building Will Self-Construct in 8 Minutes

Requiring a single tool and very little power, these self-deploying structures are ready for use in minutes, expanding themselves to multiple times their compact travel size. Based in ...

Water You Can Eat: Edible Drink Bubbles Aim to Eliminate Plastic Bottle Waste

So far so good: the creators of these edible water balls have begun deploying them at large-scale festivals, the kinds of places where hundreds of disposable plastic bottles are used and trashed. ...

Panda Power Plant: Shaped Solar Panel Array Forms China’s National Animal

The world's largest solar power-producing nation is showing off its record-setting green energy production through an adorable new array shaped like a giant panda bear, the national animal of ...

Graffiti by Drone: Team of Spray-Painting UAVs to Make Huge Mural in Berlin

Taking to the skies in Berlin, a set of color-coded drones aims to make the biggest spray-painted mural ever made (at least by robots) using unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with programmed ...

Dream Deep: Trippy Maps Reenvisioned by Google’s Artificial Neural Network

FaceApp and similar reality-warping applications are especially fun to use in ways their designers never intended. Along similar lines, Google's DeepDream (designed for photo manipulation) ...

Behind the Curtain Wall: Theatrical Facade Rotates Around Cultural Center

This mesmerizing mobile facade is an aesthetic and engineering marvel, but one has to wonder: could the mechanisms behind it be appropriated for other architectural purposes, like: providing ...

New IKEA Smart Home Fixtures Compatible with Google, Apple & Amazon

Furniture giant IKEA is making its new low-cost smart home fixtures voice-controllable can connect with ease to systems including Google Home, Apple HomeKit and Amazon Alexa. The company ...

Recycling Rockets: Ixion Will Turn Orbital Space Junk into Spacious Habitats

As part of their NextSTEP program, NASA has contracted a space company to turn trash into treasure, converting used rocket sections already being sent into orbit into habitation units rather than ...

Radbahn Berlin: 6-Mile Sheltered Bike Path to Run Under City Train Line

A long unused strip of space weaving through Berlin is set to become a bicycling boulevard, sheltered by the tracks above and lined with bike service stations, recreation areas and food ...

Pollution Pops: Sewage-Ridden Public Waters Frozen into Horrifying Popsicles

A stomach-churning twist on classic frozen treats, 100 stabilized ice pops made from Taiwan's polluted lakes, rivers, beaches and ports feature an unsettling array of sewage found in public ...

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