Tsunami Ark: Handmade Flood-Proof Floating Wood Capsule
Former Facebook and PayPal employee Chris Robinson is two years into an epic backyard project rising behind his home in Palo Alto: a structure dubbed the Tsunamiball. A veteran of Silicon ...
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.
Futurbanist: 10 Award-Worthy 2014 eVolo Skyscraper Designs
From 3D-printed towers of sand to garbage-powered architecture of the seas, these eVolo Skyscraper Competition entries push the envelope in every possible direction, and a few impossible ones ...
Need a Lift? Road Elevator Boosts Cyclists up Steep Hills
If there's a particularly daunting hill on your cycling or stroller-pushing route, you may have already thought to yourself, "I wish there were some kind of magical contraption that could haul me ...
Urban Jungle Street View: 3D Hack Uses Hidden Depth Data
An explicitly illicit use of dimensional data buried in Google Street View, the Urban Jungle project adds eerie layers of post-apocalyptic green overgrowth to major cities around the ...
HalfBike: Compact Standing Cycle Design Goes Anywhere
How compact can a bicycle get, enabling it to go anywhere in the city that you do? The Halfbike is an intriguing step forward for ultra-packable bikes ideally suited for the urban environment, ...
Kinetic Facade: Awesome Adaptive Window Shading System
Buildings are forever in tension, being static objects in a dynamic world - light conditions in particular shift predictably yet variably throughout the day, week, season and year, in turn ...
Shabby Cabbie: 15 Abandoned Taxis & Cab Graveyards
Taxis have a checkered history and few mourn when one or more of the used, abused and disused private transit vehicles reaches the end of the meter. ...
Railroaded: 9 Nifty Abandoned Train Car Graveyards
Where do obsolete trains go when they die? Many end up in railroad graveyards where these former station-stopping locomotives stay stopped and stationary. ...
Invisible Cities: Tweets and Photos as Terrain on a Map
What would it look like if you could actually see all of the tweets and Instagram photos from a Beyonce concert in New York City hovering above the skyline in physical form? A project called ...
Instant Monster Truck: Converting Cars into Snowmobiles
Anyone who has driven in heavy snow has witnessed an overconfident driver in a 4x4 go whizzing down the icy street only to fishtail or veer off into a ditch. Four wheel drive may not turn ...
