3D Printing Goes Giant: Print Your Own Home?!
Three-dimensional printing has made so many advancements in recent years, researchers have been able to print highly detailed models of castles that are as small as a grain of sand. But what ...
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.
Call Me Back: 10 Retrofuturistic iPhone Accessories
Eager to endow Apple's mass-produced modern marvel with some timeless personality? Retro iPhone accessories give your cutting-edge cellular communicator old-fashioned style to complement its right ...
4 Fantasy Yachts that Blend Sleek & Silly in Style
Yachts have always been the playthings of the ultra-rich, and some of them are so lavish as to border on ridiculous. However, just because yachts are perpetually inaccessible to most of the ...
1 Trillion Frames-per-Second Photos Capture Light in Motion
Nothing moves faster than light, right? True as that may be in theory, a team at MIT has developed a method for visualizing its propagation to amazing effect in practice. ...
Fantastic Failures: 10 Wacky Failed Inventions From the Past
There are some inventions that will forever be remembered fondly even after they are made obsolete by other technology. And then there are the other ones...the failures that never quite took off, ...
Oh, Snap! 10 Camera Concepts Focused on Innovation
Despite having been around for a very long time, photography seems to be constantly evolving. Along with digital photography came a whole new generation of incredibly inventive gadgets and ...
Material World: 8 Substances That Will Shape the Future
Advancements in science and technology have opened up a whole new world of possibilities in material science. Our future world won't be made up of the same materials we are used to seeing today - ...
Walky Talky: 12 Concept Mobile Phone Telephone Booths
Classic static telephone booths are slowly fading from the urban landscape but talking on the phone has never been more popular. These 12 concept mobile phone telephone booths attempt to recapture ...
Powerhouse Ideas: 10 Futuristic Clean Power Concepts
Producing power used to be so simple when it seemed like fossil fuel would last forever. But since we've wised up and realized that finding and developing viable alternatives is a rather urgent ...
MapAttack App Turns Any City into a Virtual Gameboard
Get up out of your chair and into the city streets with gaming that has been brought from the screen into real life. The MapAttack! smartphone app for Android phones and iPhones can turn any ...
