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Inspiration highlights innovative initiatives and people influencing the tech industry while narrating the tales behind the ideas. It’s a place to honor originality, tenacity, and ground-breaking concepts that encourage others to pursue their dreams and make them a reality.
A brief glance at the solar system
One of our missions is to help to educate the world about technology and science falls into the category as...
The “Risk” of social media (the board game, that is)
Modifying board games has been a "thing" for a couple of decades now but in the last couple of years...
The cost of solar to average American homeowners varies widely from state to state
It doesn't take a political pundit to know that the Solyndra scandal has hurt the energy industry's credibility. Investors are...
Having a Rovio executive for a husband must be degrading
When Rovio CMO Peter Vester appeared at a ball last December, his wife, Teija Vesterbacka, came in a dress that awkwardly...
Crunching the numbers: iPads vs texbooks
Some day in the (very) near future, we may no longer need a traditional backpack at school. Rather than carrying...
Microsoft attempts (and fails) to destroy Google Apps with “Googlighting”
It may not be the first time Microsoft has tried to use humor and aggressive attacks to go after Google,...
Geek vs Hipster: The battle for the coolest of the uncool
As terms of classification of humans goes, hipsters and geeks have been battling for the title of the "coolest of...
Different shades of grey… or not
Optical illusions are often fanciful diversions that keep us keen to the fact that our own minds can not only...
Ericsson’s vision of a networked society expands with “Thinking Cities”
When we first covered Ericsson's Networked Society Project, we called it beautiful and terrifying. Their latest video shows that beauty...
iGEM makes science cool for students
For nearly a decade, the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition has put the sharpest minds in high school and undergraduate...
F-Commerce gets an ‘F’ as Facebook storefronts fail miserably
When Facebook started rolling out their plan to put online stores on their platform in November, 2010, many believed that...
Tim Cook is the Michael Corleone of Apple
It has been just over 4 months since Steve Jobs died. Since then, Apple continues to head in the right...
Is 4G enough to end the high-end tablet war for iPad?
The over-$500 tablet war was, for all intents and purposes, over once the iPad 2 came out with a front-...
Pinterest may be changing the social commerce game, but why?
Pinterest is starting to enter into the social media in ways that most sites only dream about. Other than Google+,...
Confused by what Verizon’s 4G LTE really means? Saturday Night Live is, too.
Speed is relative. Internet speed is extremely relative, which is why Verizon has been touting the impressive speeds that their...
Is online banking as safe as people think?
More US adults bank online than use social networks (for now, at least). It has become such a common activity...
Is this creepy android mannequin the future of retail merchandising?
If this is the future of retail, I'll be shopping online more often. Takashimaya, a department store in Tokyo, is...
Tesla’s electric Model X adds sexy to the minivan
When one thinks of Tesla, they think of high-end electric vehicle performance. The company is known for putting out some...
Yelp users are easier to spot than most
There are definite distinctions between users of various social sites. They're often easy to spot based upon their look (Tumblr),...
Using technology to learn more efficiently
It’s a problem that students have dealt with for generations. How do I best study and retain information in an...