Lost Connection: 15 Closed & Abandoned Internet Cafés
Before WiFi and smartphones stole their thunder, internet cafés like these closed and abandoned relics offered cheap & easy access to the World Wide Web. As the original public ...
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Mobility Vision: Hyundai Concept Connects Smart Home to Driverless Car
Who needs a garage when your autonomous vehicle could simply pull up into a port inside your home and seamlessly integrate itself with the interior? Hyundai wants to give us all another reason to ...
Sci-Fi to Reality: Giant Manned Robot Method-2 Has Taken Its First Steps
Looking and working remarkably like the robots in the 2009 movie Avatar, the 1.5-ton, 13-foot-tall ’METHOD-2’ by South Korean firm Hankook Mirae Technology has officially taken its first ...
Daredevil Santa: Human Flying Drone Enables Sky-High Snowboarding Tricks
“This isn’t fake, I promise,” said filmmaker Casey Neistat as he announced the impending debut of his ‘Human Flying Drone Holiday Movie’ on Twitter with a dubious-looking graphic. ...
China’s Smog-Devouring Vacuum Tower Looks Crazy, But Actually Works
What sounded like a long shot attempt to literally suck some of the suffocating smog out of China’s sky is actually working, according to updates on the Smog Free Project, which installed an ...
Navigating the Future: 12 Forward-Thinking Urban Transit Systems
Integrating fairly seamlessly into existing city infrastructure, making use of renewable energy and solving the 'last mile' problem plaguing most public transit systems, these designs make some ...
Virtual Reality Nature: Helmet Lets Humans See the Forest Like Animals Do
Dragonflies experience their brief lives on this planet 10 times faster than humans, and in 12 color wavelengths as compared to our three, a viewpoint that’s been impossible to comprehend prior ...
Racing for Survival: 13 Extreme Vehicles for the End of the World
If you’ve ever watched The Walking Dead and thought to yourself, “in a zombie apocalypse, I would just find the nearest armored diesel-powered vehicle and pack it full of survival gear,” ...
Nothing Shocking: Abandoned & Derelict Battery Factories
These former battery factories once lead, er, led the way in electrifying society; now they sit abandoned in environs rife with heavy metal contamination. The abandoned Power City ...
Invisible Solar: Panels Camouflaged as Wood, Clay, Stone & Concrete
Overcoming the awkward aesthetic factor typically faced by home solar technology, these disguised panels look like ordinary building materials you would expect to spot along the sides, steps or ...
