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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.

Android Activations – Amazing Visualization

Android Activations – Amazing Visualization

You have to hand it to the Android Developers team. They deliver the goods when it comes to news and...

Demand Super-Fast Broadband in the US

Demand Super-Fast Broadband in the US

An article in the NY Times yesterday really upset me. If you live in the US, it should upset you...

Warlock-Mania: A Roadmap for Fallen Celebrities to Reinvent Themselves

Warlock-Mania: A Roadmap for Fallen Celebrities to Reinvent Themselves

When a celebrity gets arrested multiple times for embarrassing actions, goes to rehab, wrecks his car, loses one of the...

Technology to Art: The Microchip Paintings of Yuri Zupancic

Technology to Art: The Microchip Paintings of Yuri Zupancic

Just try and tell us tech doesn't go hand-in-hand with art (you can't). And while technology shrinks, so too does...

Singing Banner Ads Were Only The Beginning…

Singing Banner Ads Were Only The Beginning…

If Google has AdSense, let's just call this NonSense. A new advertising campaign for people-what-make-cars Alfo Romeo is (we desperately...

Demand Media Lives On: The Moral of Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Change

Demand Media Lives On: The Moral of Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Change

When the Demand Media witch hunt started a few months ago, journalists and bloggers called for action against what they...

Cyberbullying: By the Numbers

Cyberbullying: By the Numbers

The digital age has not necessarily increased the amount of cruelty performed by kids and young adults. It has simply...

Why the Automotive Industry is Shifting to New Media

Why the Automotive Industry is Shifting to New Media

There is a shift happening in the automotive industry when it comes to marketing from the dealers up to the...

How LASIK Works

How LASIK Works

One of the most profound medical technologies that has emerged in recent decades is the ability to surgically improve eyesight....

Egyptian Father Names Daughter ‘Facebook’… Yeah, For Real

Egyptian Father Names Daughter ‘Facebook’… Yeah, For Real

Talk about gratitude. According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, a twentysomething father has named his newborn daughter 'Facebook' to pay homage...

Solowheel: What The Segway Should Have Been

Solowheel: What The Segway Should Have Been

The Segway was going to revolutionize the way we travel medium distances. It didn't. Now, there is a new personal...

How the Human Brain Retains Information

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?

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

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)

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

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

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!

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

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…

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...