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 ...
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.
Iris the Eye-Controlled Camera: Blink Twice to Take a Picture
Simple, intuitive and innovative for the everyday photographer, Iris promises even more to the disabled, letting anyone control capture area, zoom level, the moment of a shot and other features ...
Bizarre Inventions: 15 Idiotic Ideas from the Past
For every invention that actually makes it to production, there are dozens of failed ideas, most of which failed for very good reasons. Like the fact that they're painfully inefficient, totally ...
Rare Visions of the Past: 30 Old Color Photographs
The black-and-white shades of old photos can reduce the immediacy of the images, making them feel as if the people and events they captured existed so long ago as to be irrelevant to our current ...
Social Signage: Digital Street Sign Gives Dynamic Directions
The shape is a familiar classic - a central post pointing toward different destinations, sometimes near and other times a world away. This evolved version, however, replaces static locations and ...
Insanely Ingenious: Longboard Stroller for Daredevil Parents
Insane, ingenious, or both, this design combines an alternative way to commute with your kids, assuming you can get past the skateboarding aspect and feel safe moving at speed while pushing your ...
15 of the World’s Weirdest Low-Tech Film Cameras
A pistol that shoots photos instead of bullets, a harness for pigeons, a cane and a human skull are among the unexpected objects that have been turned into film cameras since the dawn of ...
Hell is Other People: Avoid Your Friends Using Social Media
Social media was invented to bring people closer, but the more antisocial among us can use it in a different way: to avoid the people we know. 'Hell is Other People' is an interactive smartphone ...
Natural Lighting: Grow Your Own Glow-in-the-Dark Plants
Imagine the possibilities: cities illuminated at night not with carbon dioxide-producing energy sources, but with real glow-in-the-dark trees that light up streets and sidewalks ...
Record Breakers: 7 Vehicular Wonders of the World
Destroying lesser vehicles in more ways than one, these seven record-smashing cars and trucks are stronger, longer, faster, narrower, more fuel-efficient and way more expensive than the average ...
