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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.

Self-Healing Infrastructure: Eco-Friendly Fungus Grows to Fill Concrete Cracks

Concrete problems tend to start small, with micro-cracks expanding and exposing rebar to corrosive water, oxygen, carbon dioxide and chlorides that compromise structural integrity -- but what if ...

Self-Parking Slippers: Nissan Surprises Hotel Guests with Unexpected Tech

Guests at a Japanese inn in Hakone were shocked when they removed their hotel-provided slippers only to watch them roll away and self-park in a neat row. Later, taking a seat at the traditional ...

Crowbars: Vending Machines Reward Crows for Cleaning Up Cigarette Butts

Each year, trillions of cigarette butts are thrown on the streets of cities worldwide, but what if a highly intelligent urban creature could be trained to pick them up, and even be automatically ...

Fluid Dynamics: How a Wall of Lava Lamps Helps Encrypt 10% of the Internet

Computers have a real problem when it comes generating truly random numbers, which has led one web-critical cybersecurity firm to reference an array of lava lamps to create unique and ...

Speedway Core Sample: Cylindrical Specimen Shows 108 Years of Repaved Racetrack

Core samples let geologists examine layers of the Earth, graffiti fans peel back decades of art, or in this case: allow race watchers to see what a century or so of repaved track looks ...

Paper Signals: DIY Sculptural Objects You Can Control With Your Voice

If you could build an origami-like paper object that can visualize information at your voice command, what would you ask it to tell you? Google’s new ‘Paper Signals’ project is a fun way to ...

Beyond the Grid: Clever New Mapping Strategy Prioritizes Time Over Space

Historically, most maps use grid systems with latitude and longitude and distance measurements to guide users, but what if the emphasis was on time rather than space? Peter Liu of Mapbox has a ...

Forget Mocktails: High-Tech Glass Makes Water Taste Like Anything You Want

If you’re sober, pregnant or otherwise unable or unwilling to consume alcohol, you can still enjoy whatever cocktails you crave with a high-tech drinking glass that simulates three layers of ...

Self-Driving Mobile Living Rooms: 10 Car Concepts for the Next 50 Years

A couple decades from now, we’ll be able to summon autonomous shared vehicles both from our smartphones and from privately owned steering wheels that double as AI companions in the home, ...

Variations of a Classic: 13 Different Spins on the Volkswagen Bus

An enduring classic, the VW van might just be one of the most converted and renovated vehicles of all time, transforming into solar campers, bars, food trucks, shops, tanks, snowmobiles and even ...

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