Text, Translated: 11 Nifty Lorem Ipsum Generators
If you've ever seen a mockup of a website, magazine, book or marketing pamphlet, you have undoubtedly encountered Lorem Ipsum. Meant to keep a viewer from getting distracted by reading the text ...
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.
Hey You, Get Onto My Cloud: Bizarre Floating Transport
As far as transportation goes, we have not yet seen any truly innovative changes in our lifetimes. Sure, new types of cars and faster trains pop up every year, but where are the big changes that ...
Sink Different: Macquarium Gives Used iMacs New Life
“I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC”. The Macquarium is both, if you spell the latter “P Sea”. Call it smug or just a clever way to recycle Apple's iconic iMac G3; either way the Macquarium is an ...
Blast Off! Art & Design of 36 Retro Sci Fi Book Covers
Science fiction book covers are the most wildly decorated on the shelf. With fantastic images in a variety of beautiful designs, here's a look at retro and pulp science fiction book covers that ...
Buzz Cool: 10 Shockingly Creative Multi-Plug Power Strips
Going unplugged might be good for musicians but for the rest of us, not so much. These 10 shockingly creative electric power strip concepts pick up where bland & boring store-bought outlet bars ...
Whatever Floats Your Boat: 29 Wild Watercraft
Boats are boring, right? Except for a motor and some advanced GPS, the basic appearance has remained unchanged for what seems like forever. This couldn't be more wrong. Here are 29 reasons ...
Horror Prisons: Top 13 Most Terrifying Fictional Facilities
How would you like to be jailed underground on a planet where the surface is too scalding hot to touch, or locked up in an asylum with the most depraved of criminals, where the corrupt guards are ...
Past as Prologue? How Today Looked 100 Years Ago
Architects working with robots, firefighters equipped with artificial wings, electric learning machines and airships for everyone: this is the year 2000 - as imagined in 1910 - and it's a vision ...
13 Energizing Batteries: Mini Nukes to Hand Cranks
The batteries we use in dozens of gadgets every day have stayed more or less the same for many years, but that doesn't mean designers aren't dreaming up innovative and sometimes perplexing new ...
Mechanical Animals: 36 Steampunk Sculptures & Robots
Bones and metal parts are fused together to create the skeletons of bizarre bionic animals straight out of science fiction. Beetles' wings are spread to reveal complex arrangements of gears. ...
