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Real Life Sim City: 3D Printers Turn Virtual to Reality

[ By Delana in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] Remember SimCity 2000? It was so easy to waste hours and hours planning and building cities, then watching disasters befall the unfortunate...

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Lifebook: Single Device that Combines Every Gadget

[ By Delana in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] One of the marks of our modern culture is the proliferation of gadgets most of us carry around. From digital cameras to cell phones to tablet...

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MapAttack App Turns Any City into a Virtual Gameboard

[ By Steph in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] Get up out of your chair and into the city streets with gaming that has been brought from the screen into real life. The MapAttack! smartphone...

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Magic Plan App Makes Amazing Automatic Floor Plans

[ By Delana in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] Measuring the various rooms in your home is necessary if you want to remodel or redecorate, but it is quite a chore. Technology has...

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WebUrbanist Update: 5 Years & 50 Million Visitors Later

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] Five years ago, who would have thought that what started as an offbeat visual culture weblog would turn into a full-fledged (but still...

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E-Ink Keyboard: Letter Keys Morph into Custom Symbols

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] Electronic ink is energy efficient and easy on the eyes, so why not adapt it to the keyboard? It is, after all, one of the few components...

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Rendering the Digital Physical: 10 Bitcoin Designs & Ideas

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] The crypto-currency Bitcoin is all over social media, blogs and news sites. But beyond the volatility, speculation and noise there is a...

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Social Signage: Digital Street Sign Gives Dynamic Directions

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] The shape is a familiar classic – a central post pointing toward different destinations, sometimes near and other times a world away....

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Retro Fits: 15 Hacks & Mods Take iPads Back in Time

[ By Delana in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] The iPad is one of Apple’s most successful products in recent years, and for good reason. It’s an innovative, easy-to-use, and fun bit of...

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Stack on Sheets: Minimalist Printer Needs No Paper Tray

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] An elegant concept and beautifully executed, this thesis project strips away everything but the essentials from the process of printing,...

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Reconstructed Destruction: Flyover of Bombed WWII Warsaw

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] It took 1 year, over 1000 photographs and extensive archival research to construct The City of Ruins, a digital stereoscopic...

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Real Street Photographer Documents Virtual Life in GTA V

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] Advanced artificial characters and enhanced in-game graphics have increasingly made in-game worlds look and feel like real-life places....

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Climbing Wall Treadmill: Exercise Machine Rocks Your House

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] Far more exciting than a walking treadmill or elliptical machine, this infinite rock wall brings the challenges (and hard exercise) of...

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Choir of Retro Computers Sing a Special Christmas Carol

[ By Steph in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] “Hail the machines, sweet old machines, blow off the dust, wipe off the rust. Christmas has come, joy is foretold, for those of us you never...

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LEGO Architecture Studio: Boldly Monochromatic Block Set

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] A colorless LEGO kit may sound boring at first blush, but consider the spatial advantages of letting form, line and shadow stand apart...

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Apartment Arcade: Passersby Play Game Through Window

[ By Steph in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] A large storefront window in a Belgian designer’s work/live space invites passersby to pause and play an arcade game with a fun interactive...

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Virtual LEGO Blocks: Build with Chrome, Set on Google Maps

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] Build with Chrome is the new, fast and simple model-maker in town, and this one lets you create structures faster than digital SketchUp...

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Urban Jungle Street View: 3D Hack Uses Hidden Depth Data

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] An explicitly illicit use of dimensional data buried in Google Street View, the Urban Jungle project adds eerie layers of...

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Interact with Escher-Like Architecture in This iPad Game

[ By Steph in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] Fantasy architectural structures inspired by M.C. Escher provide a playful setting for a fun iOS puzzle game called Monument Valley. Even if...

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Gravity: Augmented Reality Tablet Lets You Draw Ideas in 3D

[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ] Using a handheld stylus and tablet set combined with an existing augmented reality headset, this invention allows users to sketch in...

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