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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.
How the Human Brain Retains Information
The manner by which humans retain and retrieve information is an area widely explored and as of yet not completely...
Do Companies Really Need Social Media Managers?
As businesses continue to get more involved with social media as part of their branding, marketing, and customer relations, most...
Guys… We Just Broke Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2xnl6LwJE And here is a visual riddle to help ferry you into the weekend - Escher's Waterfall, come to life....
How Pirates Can Save the Home Movie Industry (And Why Netflix is its Future)
Unlike other 'old media' establishments like newspapers or the music industry, the movie business has been hit less dramatically by...
Pixels. Old School.
Children of the 80s, beware. This video is bound to bring back the nostalgia that only an attachment to something...
The United States of Facebook
Drawing comparisons between Facebook and the United States is easy. Both are influential in their world. Both have leaders that...
Civ IV Wins a Grammy!
Tech-savvy folk the world over, stand up and show your propers - for the first time in history, a video...
We’ve Isolated the Problem
Infections of various types are normally the cause of computer problems. It could be malware, worms, viruses, or any number...
Geek Test: If You MUST Have A Hexacopter, Well…
Gadgets and toys have been a staple of true "geekdom" since the dawn of the being-a-geek-is-cool era. We've chronicled many...
Online Dating Con Artists Make Money From Romance
It's human nature to be at our most vulnerable when dealing with issues of the heart. Scam-masters and con artists...
The Phantom of the Floppera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoDLyiQYKw Many of us still long for a simpler time, when programs came on disks, and no one ever played...
The Garage-Built Gadget Every iPhone Video Addict Needs
Every now and then, an idea comes along that springs from a garage and turns into gold. Such will hopefully...
The Death of the Shopping Cart
The thing that truly sparked the initial growth of eCommerce has become the greatest point of abandonment on sites that...
How We Are Tracked Online
The news is jam-packed with stories about online privacy, "do not track," and Internet security issues. With proposals for a...
Why the Groupon Superbowl Ads are a Symptom of a Sick Culture
Groupon's Superbowl ads have already generated a firestorm of controversy. The spots, which variously made light of endangered whales, rainforest...
Turn Your iPod Touch Into a Phone Using Its Own Packaging
You thought you were on the cutting edge of geek chic with that iPhone 4. You ain't seen nothing yet....
PC World Inadvertently Suggests You Get a Mac
Depending on which side you take in the conflict eternal between PC and Mac, this is either an enormous fail...
Media Artists Start Prank Dating Site… and YOU Might Be On It
You may want to check out Lovely-Faces. Yeah it's a dating site - and we're not saying you're desperate. The...
Egypt: Why the Web is Broken (And Why We Can’t Fix it)
The recent events in Egypt have, among other things, been inspiring, terrifying and remarkable. But though the political situation is...
17 Years Ago, “What is ‘Internet’?” Was Asked on The Today Show
Has it really only been 17 years? Apparently, Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel had no idea what the Internet was,...