Windows Zero: 9 Telecom Infrastructure Buildings
They may not have windows, workers or office space yet telecom infrastructure buildings are an essential part of the urban megalopolis. Their lack of an obvious human presence, though, has made ...
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Cloud Machine Lets You Play God by Modifying the Weather
Most of us have wished, at some point, that we could control the weather - to keep it from raining on a special day, perhaps, or conjure up a snowstorm that results in a few days off work and ...
Visualization Vids: Moving Data Make Marvelous Movies
Raw data, as interesting as it may be to the scientists and analysts who use it, simply isn't very interesting (or understandable) to the rest of us. In order to get the general public truly ...
Sculpture Showcases Smart Metals that React to Hot & Cold
A heat-reactive metal sculpture at the Materials & Applications gallery in Los Angeles opens and closes according to environmental conditions, 'breathing' like human skin. 'Bloom' was ...
Hanging Hotel: Hard-to-Reach Resort for Rock Climbers
If you can reach this futuristic hotel pod imbedded in the side of a mountain, your reward is a quiet resting space that you can customize to create a relaxing, meditative environment tailored to ...
WebUrbanist Update: 5 Years & 50 Million Visitors Later
Five years ago, who would have thought that what started as an offbeat visual culture weblog would turn into a full-fledged (but still and always free) cosmopolitan online magazine? After just ...
No Need for Directions with GPS Shoes to Guide Your Feet
Don't worry about crashing into poles, fellow pedestrians or vehicles due to staring at GPS instructions on your smartphone screen - just follow your shoes. British designer Dominic Wilcox ...
Remember Millions of Mobile Phones in the 1960s? You Should
Quick, when was the mobile phone invented? If you thought it was the 1980s, when businessmen lugged them around in giant briefcases, think again. The earliest version of a mobile phone was first ...
Dead Media: Art Installation Created with 497 VHS Tapes
What do you do with 497 obsolete VHS tapes? Noah Scalin ripped them apart and made them into a giant three-dimensional skull-shaped art installation entitled 'Dead Media'. The proprietor of ...
Wallbots: Robotic Walls Automatically Reconfigure Rooms
In the future, will our environments constantly change around us according to the weather and our whims, without us having to lift a finger? If 'Wallbots' are any indication, the homes of the ...
