Wake Up! 28 Alarm Clocks Make Hitting Snooze More Fun
Wake up in style! There is a new generation of alarm clocks leagues ahead of the old transparent hunk of junk you still have from the 90's. Kick it up a notch and try out the cutting edge of ...
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.
History’s Hooligans: 3 Bad Boys Driving Up Museum Visits
There is no denying that some historical figures have been so completely awesome that modern "celebrities" can't begin to touch them. Art student Jenny Burrows and copywriter Matt Kappler put ...
Viva Viagra! The ‘Little Blue Pill’ Turns Teenager
Viagra was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for ED (erectile dysfunction) on this date in 1998, and the world of interpersonal relationships would never be the same ...
Old Sparky: The Shocking History Of The Electric Chair
Are you sitting comfortably? Good... so was Giuseppe Zangara, 78 years ago today, when authorities at the Florida State Penitentiary flipped the switch on "Old Sparky" and sent the prisoner sic ...
Postcards from the Future: London After Climate Change
What will the world be like in the future? We spend a lot of time on such conjecture, especially in relation to the effects of climate change, but somehow, the possibilities never seem real. The ...
Converted Car Furniture: Rev Up Your Couch
When that classic car that's been sitting in the driveway for years is ready to go to the junkyard, there is an excellent way to keep it closer than ever. Convert that hunk of junk into a ...
Dominoes Competitions: Knocking Over A Line of World Records
Dominoes were designed as a game to be played on a flat surface, but most children simply line them up and knock them down. It turns out the same thing goes for adults, as legions of Dominoes ...
Geiger Countertops: 13 Peripatetic Periodic Tables
On March 6th, 1869, Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first Periodic Table of Elements to the Russian Chemical Society. Not only has his table expanded over the past 142 ...
Skin Deep: 19 Epic + Creative Computer Case Mods
Everywhere you look today you see run of the mill, quotidian computer cases that simply lack any kind of "wow" effect. Technology blazes forward, yet the design of the desktop case remains ...
Upgrading the Future: Reusable Green DIY Building System
How many exciting design ideas have been put off indefinitely or discarded altogether due to the fear of failure? It's not only the mental and emotional tolls of failure that hold designers back ...
