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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.

Whatever You Need, On Demand: 10 Apps That Streamline Urban Life

If you're that person who's always asking for a ride or help moving, or you're just too crazy busy to go grocery shopping or clean your own house, there's a range of apps that could make your ...

Mobility Vision: Hyundai Concept Connects Smart Home to Driverless Car

Who needs a garage when your autonomous vehicle could simply pull up into a port inside your home and seamlessly integrate itself with the interior? Hyundai wants to give us all another reason to ...

Electroads: Wireless Vehicle-Charging Roads Rolling Out in Tel Aviv

A series of roads and public buses in Israel are being retrofitted to test an electromagnetic induction system designed to recharge vehicles on the go, eliminating the cost, time, emissions and ...

Facial Reconstruction: Police Use Found DNA to Create Suspect Profiles

An art project launched four years ago illustrated how scraps of DNA found in public could be turned into eerily lifelike composite sketches and three-dimensional models -- now the police appear ...

Sci-Fi to Reality: Giant Manned Robot Method-2 Has Taken Its First Steps

Looking and working remarkably like the robots in the 2009 movie Avatar, the 1.5-ton, 13-foot-tall ’METHOD-2’ by South Korean firm Hankook Mirae Technology has officially taken its first ...

Daredevil Santa: Human Flying Drone Enables Sky-High Snowboarding Tricks

“This isn’t fake, I promise,” said filmmaker Casey Neistat as he announced the impending debut of his ‘Human Flying Drone Holiday Movie’ on Twitter with a dubious-looking graphic. ...

Gifts for Star Wars Geeks: Millenium Falcon Multi-Tool & Death Star Waffles

It may not slip into your pocket with quite the ease of a Leatherman, but this Millennium Falcon multi-tool is a lot more fun to use when the hyperdrive breaks down and R2 isn’t around to fix ...

The ‘90s Are Calling: How to Hack a Payphone into a Boombox

When you pick up this bright yellow receiver, you won’t hear a dial tone on the other end - what’s waiting for you instead is some of the worst music the 1990s had to offer. The ‘90s are ...

Hippie Bus for the 21st Century: DIY Solar Volkswagen Camper Van

Iconic for its role in the counterculture movement of the 1960s, the Volkswagen Bus has seen many an amateur transformation into campers over the decades since, and now it’s gone solar ...

Bike on the River: Cycle-Powered Gym Boat Glides Through Paris

Well, here’s one way to get some exercise and simultaneously enjoy views of a beautiful city without getting rained on or dealing with traffic.  Gliding along the surface of the Seine in ...

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