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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.
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,...
Why the Internet Kill Switch is a Really, REALLY Bad Idea
There are certain things, particularly in politics and technology, that seem to make sense on the surface. Take, for instance,...
If You Hate Twitter, Charatter Bear Will Surely Keep It That Way
Some people just don't like Twitter - and can they be blamed? An ever-shifting sand of mostly-idle information, a Twitter...
Rapper T-Pain Reps Facebook – Forever
Among the list of things I believe I can speak on behalf of everyone at Techi about, it's that we...
Ray Kurzweil’s Tech Predictions Have Been Eerily Accurate
The Wall Street Journal called him “the restless genius." Forbes said he was “the ultimate thinking machine.” by Forbes magazine....
Netflix Integrating with Facebook, Splitting Households Into Users
After failing miserably and discontinuing their attempt at "going social" last year, Netflix is giving it another run. This time,...
In Defense of 3D: Why 3D is the Right Tech For Our Time
It has become fashionable to bash 3D. Most recently, Roger Ebert came out and said that the case is over:...
Have We Reached a World of Infinite Information?
No, but we're not far off. The acceleration of the creation and discovery of information is reaching a point that...
Your Bedroom Makes Music Too (Not The Kind You’re Thinking)
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/18929809[/vimeo] It would seem that there is no lack of creativity and imagination on the Web these days, especially when...