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 ...
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.
Augmented Reality: Awesome 3D Hand-Held Architecture
In a weak world economy where everyone is trying to be conservative with cash, new architectural projects go unbuilt more often than not. That doesn't stop architects from designing incredible ...
Right Hear, Right Now: 8 Terrific Techy Devices for the Deaf
Technology to improve the lives of handicapped people has brought us all kinds of incredible objects. From bionic body parts to inventive gadgets for the blind, inventors have been hard at work ...
Self-Assembly Line: Modular Units form Viral Architecture
This is architectural biomimicry on a whole new level: taking inspiration not from large organisms like trees or animals, but from the molecular structure of a virus module. Designed and ...
Castle in a Grain of Sand: Tiny Nanoscale 3D Printing
It's a perfect replica of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, complete with each tiny peak and each window. But to the naked eye, this object would look like no more than a grain of sand. The ...
Rural Ride Hacks: 34 Incredibly Down-To-Earth Vehicle Mods
It's refreshing to see ingenuity unleashed from societal mores on an industrial scale. Why not add treads instead of wheels? Who says a home AC can't work in a car? Vehicle modifications can be ...
Nine Eyes of Google: Street View’s Strangest Images
As Google's Street View vans cruise around the world, they don't just capture static images of roads, buildings and fields. They take candid snapshots of humanity - images that can be funny, ...
Commuter Commotion: 6 Futuristic Mass Transit Concepts
Whatever we will have going on in the future, two things are certain: there will be a record number of humans, and we'll all be going somewhere. Mass transit will continue to get more and more ...
Humans 2.0: 12 Bio-Tech Upgrades & Augmentations
Moving beyond our physical limitations with the help of our greatest strength - our brains - we humans are beginning to blur the lines between biology and technology. We can gain super-strength ...
Lifebook: Single Device that Combines Every Gadget
One of the marks of our modern culture is the proliferation of gadgets most of us carry around. From digital cameras to cell phones to tablet computers to laptops to MP3 players, we have our ...
