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.
It sounds at best far-fetched and at worst frightening, at least at first, but this unique water-based energy station is already under construction and is designed to (safely) generate power and ...
A game-changing invention for the art of long-exposure illumination, Pixelstick takes light art to new levels, enabling beginner animators to participate and advanced artists to evolve their ...
Early television sets ranged from tiny screens housed in laughably oversized cabinets to stylish midcentury modern designs. Some, like a Russian TV from 1932, don't even look remotely like the ...
If abandoned spaceships weren't so hard to find (please don't look for any in Antarctica), we wouldn't have to make them for movies, TV, art or just for fun. ...
More than the sum of its parts, the conceptual swappable-piece mobile phone design that went viral but is now being backed by Google-owned Motorola and is suddenly much closer to becoming a ...
Touch input has already almost entirely eliminated the need for physical keyboards and mouses, but soon, it won't even be confined to a screen. Researchers are developing systems that can ...
Glow in the dark tech doesn't have to be limited to novelties like glow sticks - it could be used to make the roads safer, provide illumination without the need for electricity, and allow surfers ...
As the Space Age rocked, rolled and rocketed into pop culture, fantastic one-off wheeled wonders embarked upon a more prosaic mission: launching new products. ...
Television, radio, the internet, billboards, newspapers, magazines, malls, supermarkets...wherever you are and whatever you're doing, it's highly likely that at least a few companies are trying ...
Advanced artificial characters and enhanced in-game graphics have increasingly made in-game worlds look and feel like real-life places. It was only a matter of time before photographers hit the ...
