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 ...
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.
Sensory Reading Experience Integrates Touch and Sound
Some might say that if you aren't experiencing the atmosphere of a story while you're reading, the author hasn't done her job. But we've all read a book that we loved so much, we wished we could ...
Virtual LEGO Blocks: Build with Chrome, Set on Google Maps
Build with Chrome is the new, fast and simple model-maker in town, and this one lets you create structures faster than digital SketchUp or physical LEGOs ever could. Of course, this Chrome ...
Blossoming Technology: World’s First Inflatable 3D Print
3D printers are now making it possible to quickly and economically 'print' everything from haute couture to full-scale architecture, medical prostheses to cars. Now, the technology has advanced ...
Apartment Arcade: Passersby Play Game Through Window
A large storefront window in a Belgian designer's work/live space invites passersby to pause and play an arcade game with a fun interactive installation. Where others living in such a busy urban ...
Bike Tire Tent: Compact Travel Shelter Wraps Inside Wheels
For the cycling nomad, this design uses space you never knew you had, and helps free up room in front-of-handlebar baskets or on above-back-tire racks for other uses in the ...
LEGO Architecture Studio: Boldly Monochromatic Block Set
A colorless LEGO kit may sound boring at first blush, but consider the spatial advantages of letting form, line and shadow stand apart from the profusion of colors normally associated with their ...
20-Hour House: How to 3D-Print 2,500 Square Feet in 1 Day
Combining ancient earthen-architecture approaches and cutting-edge robotic technologies, this contour crafting process promises a revolution in how we address one of our most basic and universal ...
Walking on Water: Fun Non-Newtonian Fluid Experiment
When you step into a pool of water, you fully expect your foot to fall right down to the bottom, unless you're under the delusion that you're the savior of mankind. But if that water has just the ...
Nautical Architectures: Electrified Reefs to Waterfall Prisons
Like a speculative fiction novelist, Margot Krasojevic creates fantastical work that manages to combine real design challenges of our times with futuristic solutions. Whatever your position on ...
