Retro Robot Art: Pseudo-Victorian & Steampunk Gallery
These creative technological inventions have a streak of steampunk, robots built into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical fantasy. Retro art, these modded vintage gadgets merge the modern day world ...
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.
Dial4Light: Turning Street Lights On Via Mobile Phone
(image via: Julie_Berlin) There are certain things that most of us take for granted – like well-lit streets. But leaving street lights blazing at all hours of the night, even in towns that ...
Monstrous Beasts: 14 Bizarre Dinosaurs and Extinct Species
Thankfully, evolution has most recently tended to reward creatures for strong thinking abilities, as it's allowed us to rise to the top of the food chain. If we'd been alive in earlier eras, ...
Drive the Friendly Skies: History & Future of Flying Cars
People have been dreaming of flying cars since the very first day we realized that human flight was possible. We love cars, we love flying, we love traveling, and we love independence: all of ...
Weird Military Innovations: 10 Crazy Weapons of War
In war, innovation can mean the difference between a glorious victory and a world shattering defeat. When research and development departments have the funding of a desperate nation behind them, ...
Human Conditions: 10 Incredible Real Medical Oddities
The process of growing from a few cells to a fully formed adult is a harrowing one, full of millions of years of evolutionary tricks that help us develop unscathed. Despite everything, there are ...
Saving Time: Ten Trippy Retro & Future Time Capsules
Time capsules... messages from today to the world of tomorrow! Everything from perishable beer & cigarettes to an entire car have been sealed in vaults for 25, 50, 100 years or much longer. ...
Crowdsourcing the City: 3D User-Submitted Picture Modeling
Crowdsourcing doesn't seem to be losing any steam, and with good reason: asking the public to perform tasks often results in unique, creative and inspired ideas. Sometimes, companies who use ...
Down & Dirty DIY: 8 Humorous Low-Tech Hacks & Mods
Human ingenuity knows no bounds. We've been inventing and improvising since the dawn of time, and we'll continue to do so as long as we have the will to survive and be comfortable. These projects ...
Concept Motorcycles: 20 Bad-Ass Bikes To Hope Get Built
Lean, mean and sometimes even green, concept motorcycles often make us want to head out on the highway and look for adventure. These bikes may not be quite ready to tear up the road as we zoom into ...
