A Blast from Cinema Past: 27 Retro Movie Promo Posters
From vintage to retro, these movie posters pulled people to the theaters. Some are mysterious, others provocative, but they all served their purpose of putting eyes on the silver screen. As ...
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.
Master Blasters: Science Fiction Guns & Weapons to Die For
Mostly harmless? I think not! Any aliens who receive our old TV and radio transmissions will be raising their tentacles in submission once they get a glimpse of sci-fi's greatest hitmen and their ...
Classic to Cutting-Edge: Evolution of the Computer Mouse
The pip-squeak of peripherals has come a long way since 1964 when the first mouse - made of wood - crawled across our desktops and into our hearts. From those humble beginnings, mice have bred ...
Retrofuturistic Advertisements: Selling a Brighter Tomorrow
These 15 retrofuturistic ads showcase one of advertising's most time-tested traits: convincing the target market a better, brighter future can be theirs TODAY - once they purchase this must-have ...
Radical Retrofuture Rides: 12 Never-Produced Vehicles
Concept cars, dream machines and technology-packed prototypes give us hints of what the future holds for bikers, drivers, sailors and flyers - many have even gone into production little changed ...
Retrofuture Fashion: Dressing Up For Tomorrow, Yesterday
Imagineering the future means sweating the details no matter how small, and future fashion has always loomed large when writers and artists want to get the image just right. What will our heroes ...
Cycling into the Future: 15 Crazy Concept Bicycles
Since bicycles work pretty flawlessly as it is, you might wonder just why we need crazy modifications like spokeless wheels and the ability to ride sideways. Innovation never ceases, and as a ...
Retrofuture Space Flight: 15 Visions of Future Past
In the hopeful years following the Second World War, armed with new technologies and vivid imaginations, almost anything seemed possible to a society straining to break free from the cycle of ...
Data Design: 10 of the Wackiest & Coolest USB Gadgets
Universal Serial Bus is quite possibly the most diverse and wide ranging technological innovation of the computer era! From simple I/O device control to missile control devices (well, toy ones ...
Sound Good? Evolution of Stereos, Speakers & Home Audio
There's no geek like an audio geek - sorry, "audiophile". So-called sound aficionados were pushing the envelope of obsessiveness long before the rise of computers, gaming and all things Trek. Let's ...
