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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.
Gmail Motion: Because We Didn’t Evolve To Sit at a Keyboard and Type
Working with computers is tedious. The constant typing on keyboards and clicking on a mouse makes composing and sending emails...
As Online Education Grows, Does It Really Make More Sense?
The pros and cons of educating students online have been debated since the dawn of the Internet. It has proven...
Everything You Know About Piracy is Wrong
Piracy has become part and parcel of discussions about media and the internet. And everywhere in online discussion, from the...
Japanese Condiment Remover: Another Example of Amazing But Useless Technology
Have you ever spilled ketchup on a table and wished there was a way to pick it up in its...
The Cheese is a Lie: How Scammers Bait Their Victims
If you haven't received an email from a Nigerian Prince, you either don't check your email enough or you don't...
How the Internet has Evolved
Can you even remember life without the Internet? It has become such an embedded aspect of our lives that many...
War Tech: Why Future Soldiers May Wear Master Chief Helmets
Anyone who enjoys the Halo series on XBox will probably recognize the design of these helmets. The similarities are striking,...
How the Web Might Redefine Capitalism
Capitalism, though a big, incredibly complex concept, can be boiled down to a few basic ideas: there should be private...
They Just Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To… Thank God
Alright, let's play a game of 'Guess the Ancient Tech'. What is this box on a forklift? Believe it or...
Beyond Pink and Blue: A Look at Gender Colors
It goes beyond culture. There is science behind the gender-relationships when it comes to colors. A study by John Hallock...
The Economy of SXSW
Music, movies, and tech. That's what the nearly-finished SXSW convention offers to its participants every year for what seems like...
De Niro Doesn’t Get Twitter and That’s Okay
He's risen to power from obscurity as Vito Corleon, helped a child prostitute find peace, ran a casino and met...
iPad 2 Get Utterly Destroyed – and it’s Beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVc3yg8KN5Q We're willing to bet you've never seen a tech toy meet its end with such beauty. Remember in Jet...
Save IE6: Because Progress is Overrated
When you enter that level of Internet embarrassment that people start to develop memes about you, you've transcended bad to...
NY Times Bets Big on Their Muscle, Announces Paywall
Starting March 28, you get 20 articles a month. That's it. Beyond that, it's $15 for 4 weeks for the...
Why ‘Big Media’ Was Just a Historical Blip
The conversation about the shift from "old" to "new" media usually goes something like this: 1) the media business has...
Heavy Multitaskers “lousy at everything that’s necessary for multitasking”
New reports find that high multi-taskers are "lousy at everything that's necessary for multitasking." Considering the amount of time people...
Future (Fake) Tech: The Google Helmet
Have you ever wished you could simply put Google in your mind? You could search for whatever information was out...
Kinect ‘Evil Genius Simulator’ Hack is the Most Dangerous To Date
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNN4Oo0KhZo If there's one thing the Kinect is good for, it's facilitating interesting and downright clever hacks. Obviously. If you...
Sixteen Uses For Your Wrist Now That Your Phone is Your Watch
In the age of the pervasion of mobile devices, it would seem traditional wrist-mounted chronometers have fallen by the wayside....