Ultimate DIY RV: High-Tech Caravan Made for a 4-Year-Old
Named after its creator's progeny, the Kirivan may be the most impressive mobile home ever made, using cutting-edge technologies to blend the best elements of a luxury motorhome, zombie ...
Category: Technology
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.
Glow-in-the-Dark Highways: Free Lighting Hits the Streets
Proposed just two years ago, this alternative solar-powered passive streetlight system is now already a reality, deployed along motorways across the Netherlands. As one reporter put it after ...
Eavesdropping Lamp Records & Tweets Conversations
In ordinary circumstances, it would be fair to say that your paranoia levels are off the charts if you really think a nearby lamp is spying on you. But that might not be an accurate assessment ...
Beats on Fire: Music Visualized with Movement of Flames
We've seen what audio frequencies look like in mesmerizing resonance experiments using sand - so how does the same concept translate to a more volatile medium? The science video blog Veritasium ...
Shape-Shifting Furniture: Interactive 3D Surfaces from MIT
The Tangible Media Group from MIT has developed an approach to responsive design in physical space that is both conceptual and plausible, futuristic yet already a reality. Displaying ...
Augmented Sandbox: Realtime 3D Topographic Landscaping
Simulating an amazing array of natural environments and phenomena, this dynamic playspace turns ordinary hand-sculpted sand into vividly colorful landscapes in the blink of an eye. A real ...
Pocket Printer: Mini Roomba-Like Robot Prints on the Go
While other gadgets have gotten smaller and more streamlined, printers have generally remained space-hogging behemoths. Seemingly ignored in the quest to make computers and their accessories ...
Living Legos: Build Your Own Robot with TinkerBots Blocks
High-tech and low-tech come together with this set of not-so-basic building blocks connected to a central 'Power Brain' cube that turns your creation into a working robot. TinkerBots is a ...
Gravity: Augmented Reality Tablet Lets You Draw Ideas in 3D
Using a handheld stylus and tablet set combined with an existing augmented reality headset, this invention allows users to sketch in three dimensions and see the results of their work unfold in ...
Interact with Escher-Like Architecture in This iPad Game
Fantasy architectural structures inspired by M.C. Escher provide a playful setting for a fun iOS puzzle game called Monument Valley. Even if you aren't big on playing games on your phone or iPad, ...
