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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.
Skyrim’s Doublerain Bow
Skyrim is, of course, a hugely popular game. It's immense in scope and the manhours it took to put it...
Can STEM fix America?
Two trends in American culture contradict each other. On one hand, technological and scientific fields are struggling to find qualified...
Will 2012 be a rebound year for IPOs?
2010 was a good year for the economy in terms of the number of initial public offerings (IPO). 2011 is...
Google+ television ads are pointing people in the wrong direction
When I heard that Google had put out their first Google+ television commercial, I was both impressed and a little...
Visualizing biotechnology advancements and investments around the world
The biotechnology industry has been booming for decades in the United States, Europe, and Japan, but recent advancements in both...
Visualizing SOPA, the internet blacklist bill
After last week's high-energy American Censorship Day flew through with amazing responses from websites everywhere, much of the buzz has...
5 Ways Online Education May Improve Your Social Life
Among the perks of attending an online college is the flexible schedule and leftover time to hang out, read, play...
Buffy the Facebook Phone will Fail
In the next year or two (anyone's guess is valid at this point) Facebook will be releasing a smartphone by...
Chromebook failed because we’re not ready for total cloud computing
The future of the internet and computing might be in the cloud, but people are reluctant to give up their...
Japan’s cure for snoring and sleep apnea – a robotic bear pillow
At some point, the sheer oddity of Japanese technological solutions to various problems will stop surprising us. That day may...
What people are doing online right now
The internet takes up a huge part of our daily lives. Many of us have integrated real-world activities into our...
Why negative sentiment towards Google+ is asinine and premature
According to the LA Times, Google+ interest is fading. According to logic, history, and common sense, Google+ is exactly where...
Ketchup container, only better
These have been around for a while, and every time I see one I thank the innovator who came up...
4Chan is back up after 3 day DDoS attack
It isn't the first time that 4Chan has gone down and it won't be the last, but this one is...
E-Readers: Making Readers Out of More People Than Ever
There's a lot of hand-wringing over the so-called "dumbing-down" of America. We don't read, we can't write except in and...
Stunning time lapse sequences from the International Space Station
At first glance, it doesn't seem real. This video of time lapse sequences from the International Space Station crews of...
The US government failed to uphold its own principles by unlocking WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts
The precedent has been set and it's a very bad one. A US judge ruled that Twitter must release all...
Everything you needed to know about firewalls
The term "firewall" has one that most people know but few understand. It's often confused with anti-virus software because of...
Asimo shows how he can be our servant (and eventually our overlord)
When Honda unveiled ASIMO a few years ago, most were amazed by its human-like movements. Some claimed there was a...
A dummy’s guide to typefaces
In design, typeface can be everything. People associate a brand with certain typefaces. Personalities of individuals can be expressed with...