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This section honors the most innovative technological innovations, ranging from robots and drones to ground-breaking devices. It keeps readers motivated by the limitless possibilities of human creativity by showcasing future ideas and visionary concepts that push the envelope of what is possible.

The Mobile Web Will Find a Way In Emerging Markets

The Mobile Web Will Find a Way In Emerging Markets

Technology is, in general, a great thing. It empowers us with information, entertains us with social activity, and allows us...

Drive Carefully with New BlackBerry Application

Drive Carefully with New BlackBerry Application

Ever sent a text while driving? Thought it would be alright to just pick up the phone and have a...

Nokia Is Developing An iPad-Killer – Report

Nokia Is Developing An iPad-Killer – Report

The iPad may be grabbing headlines everywhere today - it’s hard to find anyone talking about something else - but...

Save Money; Save The Planet With Fujitsu’s Power Strip

Save Money; Save The Planet With Fujitsu’s Power Strip

Even if you’re uncertain where you stand in the green debate, rising electricity bills alone should be enough to get...

Microsoft Launches Own-Brand Smartphones April 12

Microsoft Launches Own-Brand Smartphones April 12

Microsoft is about to introduce its very own attempt at smartphone, its own-branded phones, hitherto developed by the top secret...

Inside Apple’s Home-Made iPad Processor

Inside Apple’s Home-Made iPad Processor

Hard-working disassembly sleuths at iFixIT spent their Easter weekend tearing an iPad apart to explore the Apple-designed A4 processor which...

MacBook Upgrades Coming, Apple-Watchers Claim

MacBook Upgrades Coming, Apple-Watchers Claim

If you’ve got any spare change left after the long Easter iPad launch weekend, Apple has another surprise on the...

Applegirl’s PokerFace Matched Only by Mad iPhone Skills

Applegirl’s PokerFace Matched Only by Mad iPhone Skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzh2UygPwDU I can't decide what's more impressive about this video:  'Applegirl002's' skill in using iPhone apps to create music; or...

Are We Dumb if We Don’t Buy Smart Phones?

Are We Dumb if We Don’t Buy Smart Phones?

Let me get this out in the open: I have never owned a smart phone. Never! I have thought about...

Apple to Sell a Buttload of iPads In the First Year

Apple to Sell a Buttload of iPads In the First Year

While some of us here at Techi and around the blogosphere want an iPad, some don't. Some even go as...

Why Flash is Dying and How to Save It

Why Flash is Dying and How to Save It

Adobe's Flash plugin has become a stalwart in online multimedia content with a massive install base, so why is it...

Face-Meltingly Awesome Twitter Watch Renders Your Rolex Totally Unclassy

Face-Meltingly Awesome Twitter Watch Renders Your Rolex Totally Unclassy

I’m a total freak for Twitter. It’s the greatest thing to happen to the internet in ages, and I wish...

NASA Goes Hollywood… Sorta

NASA Goes Hollywood… Sorta

Bet you thought the stiff-assed pencil pushers at NASA were all business, didn’t you? Yeah, don't sweat, so did I....

Detroit Clock City

Detroit Clock City

Detroit used to make cars, now they make auto-inspired watches. In a classic example of life imitating art imitating life,...

Bafflingly Pointless Video Device

Bafflingly Pointless Video Device

Gadget freaks become gadget freaks because they love living life on the cutting edge, but sometimes the cutting edge is...

Mirror Mirror, On My Keyboard..

Mirror Mirror, On My Keyboard..

Nerds are a funny bunch - we don't like daylight or exercise, or girls, for that matter. But we're a...

iCade, Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

iCade, Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

Remember the iCade, ThinkGeek’s April Fool’s joke? Techi’s own James Mowery brought it to our attention yesterday. James expressed sadness...

MIT’s Glove Mouse Inspired By Minority Report

MIT’s Glove Mouse Inspired By Minority Report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfMm_7B9QCo All of us tech geeks recall Minority Report, right? Well, for those of you who do, you'll love what...

Taking the ‘Cell’ Out of ‘Phone’

Taking the ‘Cell’ Out of ‘Phone’

That iPhone, it’s a beast. A tiger within a kraken wrapped in a minotaur made of exploding gargoyles. Sometimes you...

TVs Are Displaying Three Dimensions, Why Not Phones?

TVs Are Displaying Three Dimensions, Why Not Phones?

First the HDTVs, then the Nintendo 3DS, and now mobile phones? All of them are getting 3D! However, the mobile...