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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.

Building Blocks of Innovation: 11 Cutting Edge Materials Set to Shape the Future

Architecture has looked much the same since early humans first began constructing their own shelter, but that could change soon with the introduction of new materials and technologies producing ...

Constructing the Future: 13 Recent Advances in Robotic Building Technology

The buildings and infrastructure of the not-so-distant future might look like they were dropped here from an alien planet thanks to the complex geometries and curvaceous surfaces robotic building ...

Construction Brew: Rugged Coffee Maker Runs on Power Tool Batteries

Made by power tool-maker Makita, this is the ultimate coffee machine to energize construction workers, charged by the same batteries already in use on work sites. The CM501D is designed to derive ...

Vanishing Infrastructure: Flat-Folding Urban Bicycle Rack Pops Up on Demand

It sounds like a great design solution: a pop-up bike rack that disappears below the pavement when not in use, but the problem it aims to solve really an issue, and (if so) would it ultimately ...

Trashpresso: Solar-Powered Mobile Recycling Plant Turns Trash into Tiles

You know how China stopped taking our plastic recycling waste because Americans can’t seem to figure out how which items are actually recyclable and which ones clog up the machines and ...

Small Packages: Spacious Pop-Up Camper Self-Inflates in Just 90 Seconds

The Air Opus Camper packs down into a surprisingly tiny trailer box easily towed behind a vehicle, but deploys automatically in less than two minutes (then folds back up in just 30 ...

A Balm for Boring Contemporary Cars: 14 Fun & Stylish Modern Vehicle Designs

Why do most of our brand new cars still look like they were released in the 1990s? Judging by most of the concept designs released over the last few years, it seems like we’re destined to slide ...

I’m Sorry Dave, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That: ‘Flying Brain’ Will Assist Astronauts

What would Stanley Kubrick think? With its nonthreatening, simplistic stick figure face set in a spheroid plastic housing, CIMON the ‘flying brain’ is probably more analogous to GERTY, the ...

Days after Gucci’s Severed Head Stunt, Drones Model Handbags at Milan Fashion Week

Robots: they took'r jerbs! Or at least, drones stood in for live models at Dolce & Gabbana’s runway during Milan fashion week, floating handbags above the heads of awed onlookers. The ...

Social Media Addicts Have a New Way to Propose with This Engagement Phone Case

If you don’t capture every minute detail of your life and post it on social media and proceed to buy likes from Buzzoid, did it even happen? That’s one question that comes to mind when you ...

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