Hunt, Peck & Paint: Chromatic Typewriter Prints Landscapes
Many works of amazing literary art have been printed on typewriters in times past, but this re-purposing concept takes an old machine beyond words and into the realm of colorful ...
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.
Lunar Soil Structures: 3D-Printing Dwellings on the Moon
One of the biggest challenges of settlements in space is the cost of transporting materials and technologies for construction, a problem addressed beautifully via 3D printing technology in this ...
3D Printed Car is Strong, Light and Close to Production
The Urbee 2 is strong as steel, half the weight of a conventional vehicle, and can be manufactured in a warehouse full of plastic-spraying 3D printers. The teardrop-shaped 3D-printed car is an ...
Harvest Energy from Power Lines to Recharge Your Batteries
The entire city is your power source with an innovative gadget by designer Dennis Siegel that harvests energy from electromagnetic fields and instantly recharges batteries. These 'energy ...
A Million Times: Clock Wall is a Moving Art Installation
Staring at the hands of an analog clock for too long can lead to the feeling that the hands are moving in odd ways. In the case of this large installation, however, that feeling is completely ...
Wiki Your City: Mobile App Lets You Geo-Tag Articles
Wikipedia is making it easier than ever to participate in the aggregation of user-provided knowledge and information with its GeoData extension, a mobile app for iPhones and Androids. This app ...
Future Skyscraper: Arup Presents Awesome Vision for 2050
Rather than turning toward far-flung science-fiction, these designers have extrapolated current engineering techniques and evolving technologies. This skyscraper thus fuses passive power ...
Making It: 10 (More!) Futuristic Materials That Exist Today
The materials we use to create consumer products and infrastructure objects are constantly evolving as technology advances. The futuristic materials of a generation ago are commonplace today, ...
Abandoned App Leads You to Local Urban Exploration Sites
Half the fun of exploring abandoned places is the hunt - stumbling upon obscure sites, or determining the precise location of better-known ones with a collection of vague clues from previous ...
Factory to Self-Fabrication: 14 3D-Printed Design Objects
The world of desktop 3D printing has made factory-style fabrication possibilities available to artists and designers, who turn digital models into three-dimensional solid objects with successive ...
