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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.
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 Boldy 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 details...
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......
iPhone Gaming Reaches A New Level Of Awesome
So the iPhone is the new king of mobile gaming, at least until Sony or Nintendo strikes back. But if...
Turning A Photo Viewer Into A Tablet for $170
Somewhere between DIY and iPad sits this hacked Insignia Infocast. The Infocast is a strange beast to begin with -...
$100 Origami iPhone Stand – Functional, Stylish, Expensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU36zTVkOTY Craft time! Got a spare $100 bill lying around? Of course you do, you're made of money. Look at...
Because There’s Always Room For More Gundams
I have a couple friends who are big into building scale models of Gundams. I've never really understood the appeal...
A Safer Kind of 3D Advertising
3D is absolutely bloody everywhere now. Everywhere you turn, stuff's popping out of every surface at you - most of...
RFID-Ready Trash Bins Can and Will Betray You
Remember when internet refrigerators were attempting to become popular, way back in, like... 2001? Or, rather, I'm pretty sure all...
A Little Blinky Blinky For The Ladies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luOeJdosct4 Engineer Marc DeVidts is my favourite person today. Marc's unconcerned with not being totally fly and getting all the...
Mind-Controlled Moog Theremin Ain’t No Mozart, But It Sure Is Cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ0So3q9cT0 It would be a day wasted if I didn't show you a bafflingly unique piece of musical technology, so...
A World Without Photoshop? Nooooo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7rMpocUEgQ&feature=player_embedded Most people have occasionally stopped to wonder what life was like before computers, but if you use Photoshop, you...
An Infographic To Explain Why Infographics Are So Common
Finally! Someone has taken the time to explain why infographics are so common on the web. Using an infographic. As...