2378 Stories
TECHi Inspiration spotlights the founders, startups, and visionaries building the future. From billion-dollar funding rounds to bootstrapped breakthroughs, this section tells the human stories behind the technology. The ambition, the risk, and the execution that turns ideas into industry-defining companies.
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 Gets Utterly Destroyed – and it is 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....
25 Countries Compared: Does Education Lead to Happiness?
It isn't hard to draw a few basic conclusions. Better education leads to better employment. More employment options leads to...
Tweeners: Why Engadget, Mashable, and HuffPo Shouldn’t Be Called “Blogs”
When AOL bought the Huffington Post for $315 million, I had to chuckle at the news reports calling it a...
By the Numbers: #SXSW
This year, the popular South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Texas, returns to celebrate its monumental 25th...
Amazon vs The Tax Man (with Roger Ebert caught in the crossfire)
Whenever a state's tax man steps foot on Amazon's porch, they make a hasty escape out the back door. That's...
From Bits to Yottabytes: Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Data Measurements
We've all heard of bytes, kilobytes, and megabytes for decades. The last couple of decades has put "gigabytes" into our...
Net Neutrality Rules Voted Invalid by House Panel
A Republican-led House subcommittee voted 15-8 to invalidate the FCC’s net neutrality rules. The rules will likely stay in place,...
Three Things The Web Can Learn from Old Media
It has become common wisdom in the tech world that old media represents an obsolete mode of thinking that should...
You’re The Beast Around
Straight outta the 'Things You Probably Don't Care To Know' department comes Mark Zuckerberg's new dog, Beast. Now, you might...
Why Netflix Will Control “Big Telecom” (or die trying)
There are only two viable scenarios that will come to pass in the near future when it comes to home...