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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.

How to Be Invisible: 15 Anti-Surveillance Gadgets & Wearables

We don’t have to wait for a dystopian future in which our faces are scanned as we walk down the sidewalk and our every movement is logged - we willingly carry personally identifiable tracking ...

China’s Smog-Devouring Vacuum Tower Looks Crazy, But Actually Works

What sounded like a long shot attempt to literally suck some of the suffocating smog out of China’s sky is actually working, according to updates on the Smog Free Project, which installed an ...

Camouflaged Solar Panels: Tesla Roof Tiles Power Home Batteries & Electric Cars

Elon Musk is attacking the question of energy storage and consumption at home, first with electric cars, then with home batteries and now the final piece of the puzzle: solar panels people will ...

Scan to CAD: Software Turns Volumetric Snapshots into Usable 3D Models

Bringing a critical gap between 3D scanning technology and functional outputs for architects, designers and homeowners, Canvas can scan a room in minutes then generate useful CAD software ...

Navigating the Future: 12 Forward-Thinking Urban Transit Systems

Integrating fairly seamlessly into existing city infrastructure, making use of renewable energy and solving the 'last mile' problem plaguing most public transit systems, these designs make some ...

Rugged Luxury: Take Your Queen Bed On the Road In This Modern Camper

If your camping style is somewhere in between sleeping under the stars and ‘glamping’ with all the comforts of home, Track Trailer’s MK4 ‘Tvan’ camper has your number. Designed to be ...

Virtual Reality Nature: Helmet Lets Humans See the Forest Like Animals Do

Dragonflies experience their brief lives on this planet 10 times faster than humans, and in 12 color wavelengths as compared to our three, a viewpoint that’s been impossible to comprehend prior ...

Racing for Survival: 13 Extreme Vehicles for the End of the World

If you’ve ever watched The Walking Dead and thought to yourself, “in a zombie apocalypse, I would just find the nearest armored diesel-powered vehicle and pack it full of survival gear,” ...

World’s First All-Electric Mobile Office Built Into a Nissan Van

Who wants to sit in a stale, noisy central office when they could take their job - not to mention the coffee maker - on the go instead? This Nissan vehicle houses the world’s first all-electric ...

Record Breaking: Magnetic Levitating Turntable Lets Vinyl Defy Gravity

Cool and clever trump common sense and normal physics in this levitating record turntable, which aims to bring a vintage technology into the future. Mag-Lev Audio wants to push audio ...

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