Add-On Gadgets: 15 Cool Devices For Your Smart Phone
As smart phones become even more integral to our everyday lives, extra gadgets that increase their functionality just get cooler and cooler. These 15 add-ons for iPhone and Android handsets ...
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.
Dental Nightmare: 17 Truly Terrifying Tooth-Related Objects
As if going to the dentist wasn't scary enough already, you can now augment your odontophobia with a series of nightmare-inducing dental training devices, antique drills and tooth-related ...
Dark City: Giant Mirrors Aim to Illuminate Town in Shadows
A lovely little settlement in a lush valley of Norway sounds like a slice of paradise - except that the surrounding hills keep it out of sunlight for nearly half of the year. This incredible ...
Escher + Inception: Tour a Digital World that Defies Physics
This video thrives on convention - specifically: breaking with it. In the same vein as M.C. Escher, The Matrix or, more recently, Inception (or even the building flips and slides in ...
Cute, Kitschy, Cool: 12 Clever Chinese Desk Fan Designs
Intended for low-cost mass production but displaying a wide variety of clever conceptual designs, these 12 Chinese desk fans may blow but they sure don't suck. ...
3D-Printed Prosthesis: Custom Casts & Artificial Limb Covers
Customization has long been a limiting factor in certain aspects of medical practice, particularly those centering around damaged or lost limbs creating different person-specific needs. 3D ...
Building Eraser: Smart Robot Scans & Deconstructs Concrete
Whether the building is a bare-bones warehouse or five-star hotel, demolition is an equally messy business - but perhaps it does not have to be. What if demolition teams could precisely separate ...
Urban Apps: 13 Interactive City Maps, Tools & Guides
Chances are, even if you're a lifelong resident of a particular city, you don't know every nook and cranny, every food truck location, or the lore of every interesting local building. Apps for ...
Painting Robot Plans Each Stroke Of Its Own Masterpieces
If you think humans in creative professions aren't in danger of someday being replaced by robots, which ostensibly don't possess the ability to produce real art, you're going to want to watch ...
Vertical Garage: Hide Cars Below or Lift Your Ride to the Sky
There are all kinds of houses designed to showcase your prized luxury vehicle or custom cruiser, but few can boast so blatant a mechanism to quite literally put your sports car on a ...
