Terrific Tech: 10 Futuristic Advances in Robotics
Everyone loves a great robot story. Whether the robots are cuddly, intimidating, smart, or scary, they never fail to capture our attention. These bots range from updates on older technology to ...
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.
Going Anti-Viral: 10 Neat Gadgets for Germaphobic Geeks
Computer viruses aren't the only infections you have to worry about, especially if you're a geek, gamer and/or gadgeteer who lives in the scary, paranoid land of germaphobia. These 10 neat gadgets ...
Real Life Sim City: 3D Printers Turn Virtual to Reality
Remember SimCity 2000? It was so easy to waste hours and hours planning and building cities, then watching disasters befall the unfortunate citizens. But the problem was always that you had to ...
Riding High: 30 Outrageous Bike Mods & Cycling Inventions
The green revolution would be a lot easier if everyone rode a bike. One way to get more people to start traveling via pedal power is to add a little creativity to an otherwise mundane form of ...
Trash Hits: 11 Scent-sational Concept Garbage Trucks
Seeing art is one thing, but have you smelled it lately? These 11 scent-sational concept garbage trucks trash traditional artistic sensibilities while maintaining the “can”-do spirit today's ...
Fluffy Firearm Art: 12 Hilariously Non-Violent Weapons
Implements of war and destruction are often seen as fascinating objects in themselves, for a variety of reasons. British designer and artist Kyle Bean created a series of harmless weapons that ...
ZAP! 27 Vintage Sci Fi Damsels In Distress
Vintage science fiction has as many damsels in distress as it has lurching robots and rubber-masked aliens. Despite the huge pantheon of films and novels about futuristic exploits, there's always ...
Revolutionary Robots: 16 Cool & Crazy Creations
Artificial intelligence is getting more advanced by the day, in ways that are both scary and exciting. There are robots that can help make the world a better place - leading schools of fish away ...
Star Cars: 10 Past, Present & Future Robot Space Rovers
Not since Evel Knievel have wheels flown so far: robotic rovers designed to travel over unearthly alien terrain where no one has gone before, and where no roads await their wheels. Led by the ...
Shh! Secret Gadget That Operates With the Tilt of a Book
If you can't afford an entire secret passageway or don't have the space for a built-in hidden room, maybe just feeling like you have a fun secret in your house is a good enough substitute. This ...
