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Rapid Resin: Liquid 3D Printing Looks Like Morphing T2 Metal
[ By WebUrbanist in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] Generating objects 25 to 100 times faster than traditional layer-based 3D printers, this new continuous-liquid approach to...
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Designer Sci-Fi: Ferrari Spaceship Takes Luxury Sky-High
[ By Steph in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] Given how far away we still are from personal spacecraft, perhaps it’s not surprising that most design concepts for extra-terrestrial...
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Rural Retrofuturism: Dystopian Visions of Swedish Countrysides
[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Drawing & Digital. ] Set in an alternate-reality Sweden of the 1980s and 90s, these stunning paintings remix pastoral landscapes with futuristic robots, telling a...
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Hearables: Sound-Controlling Earbuds Hack Everyday Acoustics
[ By WebUrbanist in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ] With these earbuds, you can do anything from turning down the volume on crying babies, snoring spouses and passing sirens to tuning your...
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Raised Runways: Airplane Paths Lifted Above Downtown Streets
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Airports take up vast amounts of valuable real estate in and around urban areas, but what if we could get to and from planes faster,...
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Back From the Future: Working Hoverboard Surfs Water & Rails
[ By WebUrbanist in Technology & Vehicles & Mods. ] Pro skaters pull tricks on (and beyond) the pavement on this real-life hoverboard – at a distance, one might mistake their rides for normal...
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Dramatic ‘Elastica’ Residence: The House of the Future is Here
[ By SA Rogers in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ] Looking like the set of a sci-fi film, the ultramodern ‘Elastica’ residence in Bangalore, India is pretty much what we all imagined our...
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Science City: Futuristic Research Complex to Vitalize Egyptian Desert
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ] A new 125,000-square-foot science complex to be built outside Cairo will combine research, learning and museum facilities in a...
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Navigating the Future: 12 Forward-Thinking Urban Transit Systems
[ By SA Rogers in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] Integrating fairly seamlessly into existing city infrastructure, making use of renewable energy and solving the ‘last mile’ problem...
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Mobility Vision: Hyundai Concept Connects Smart Home to Driverless Car
[ By SA Rogers in Technology & Vehicles & Mods. ] Who needs a garage when your autonomous vehicle could simply pull up into a port inside your home and seamlessly integrate itself with the...
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Urban Planet: How the Whole World Would Fit into a Single City or Structure
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Cities often feel like dense and crowded places, and it is hard to imagine everyone on Earth living in urban environments let alone a...
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Beyond the Centerline: Fantastical Urban Schemes Reimagine Road Medians
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Central yet unused, the central median of New York City’s Park Avenue is the subject of a series of spectacular and speculative...
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Welcome to the Future: 6 Creepy Advances in Potentially Dystopian Technology
[ By SA Rogers in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] All we wanted was flying cars and machines that clean up after us, and all we’ve gotten is a nightmare of dystopian privacy-shattering...
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Formula 1 Mobility: Graphene Enables World’s Lightest Wheelchair Design
[ By WebUrbanist in Technology & Vehicles & Mods. ] Working with Formula 1 race car manufacturers and employing aerospace materials, a Swiss firm has developed what they claim is the world’s...
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Robotic Contact Lens Lets You Zoom In on Objects by Blinking Twice
[ By SA Rogers in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] Anyone who’s hoping some version of our species will manage to survive the coming climate crisis through transhumanism might be...
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Localvore Revolution: Vertical Urban Farms Promise to Deliver Greener Produce
[ By WebUrbanist in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] In Newark, New Jersey, a large and deceptively nondescript building is redefining the Garden State, producing millions of pounds of...
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