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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.
Chilean Miners (Yes, Those Miners) Gifted Free iPods by Jobs
While their story is one of bravery and heroism and all that good stuff (I promise I'm being sincere), everyone...
Rock-em, Sock-em Robot Beats Up Volunteers In the Name of Science
Six Slovenian volunteers have been undergoing a bizarre test: being punched in the arm over, and over, and over, and...
Giant Cushion Protects Your Delicate Ears From Your iPhone
Now 'ears one for the books - a large padded earpiece that attaches directly to your iPhone. You'll look ear-ily...
Hackintosh Hardware, Installed in a Cardboard Box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ky9sowEKBo All I can say is that I definitely paid too much for my Mac Pro. One of the fellas...
Cheating Hedge Mazes – There’s An App For That, and It’s Google Earth
This will be the dumbest thing you'll read all day: Seems that Brits are using their iPhones to cheat hedge...
Map of Social Networking Pretty Much Hits the Nail on the Head
Coming down the pipe from XKCD is this utterly brilliant map of the state of social networking today. Click the...
Liquid-Proof Tech Has Arrived
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/12767988[/vimeo] This is bizarrely charming and cute and funny, yet at the same time practical and innovative. Everyone know the...
How The MPAA Is Using The Law To Protect Its Business Model
In what appears to be another shocking attempt to constrain and limit the functioning of the internet, US lawmakers are...
DIY Weather Balloon Camera Records Blackness Of Space
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/15091562[/vimeo] Yeah, we landed on the moon forty years ago. Yes, Bruce Willis and his daredevil team of drillers placed...
Batman Utility Belt Stows Your iPhone Like A Pro
Can't decide what to wear for Halloween this year? Yeah, me neither, and if you're anything like me, it's probably...
Chrome OS on the iPad – Real or Not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4tyG4upFns A couple days ago, a photo began circulating 'round and about the sphere of Google's Chrome OS running on...
How Many Hits is a Bajillion?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjs9v6YX47A Do you know how many hits a bajillion is? A whole crap ton of hits, that's how many. Social...
Would You Kill A Man For An iPod Ninja? Would You Kill A Man WITH One?
Turns out Big Steve isn't the ninja we all thought he was. After being pulled aside and searched at Kansai...
To Boldly Cut, Yadda Yadda Yadda, Star Trek-Slash-Pizza Joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWNc0yjC3T4 Tell you what: I'm just gonna leave this here, and you can totally just talk amongst yourselves. Or buy...
Hunters Take Aim at Google, Google Sends Skiers To Help
Google's currently working on an underground path for the previously-aerial fiber connected to its data center in the Dalles, Oregon....
This Is Not The Backpack You’re Looking For
Kinda weird timing on this one, but some nerdy genius has come up with the Boba Fett backpack. Light on...
Want To Stay Home And Be Creepy? There’s a Wii Game For That
It can be a lonely life for creepy guys. Who do you have to talk to when you're stuck up...
This R2 Unit Can’t Repair Your X-Wing, But It’ll Be Your Xbox
If there is a more ambitious case modder than Brian DeVitis, I haven't heard of him. Not content with having...
100-Year-Old Talking Tree is Most Facebook-Savvy in Belgium (and Quite Possibly, The World)
My parents don't know jack about the internet. We're talking nothing more complicated than basic email. We're talking, like... you...
Wanna See Flickr’s 5 Billionth Photo?
It's always cool when a totally big-ass milestone is hit on something, sort of like Twitter's 20 billionth tweet, which......