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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.
Google Celebrates Chemistry and Continues to Channel Your Inner Procrastinator
Google should seriously rethink its doodles. Nobody is ever going to get anything done! This is the worst thing for...
Photoshop Feature Sneak Peak: Photobomb Tool
With Adobe's Creative Suite 5 barely a couple of months old, the Photoshop team is already hard at work on...
Old School GPS? Eat Your Heart Out, SteamPunk
We're all aware of the SteamPunk phenomenon - time-rich nerd takes high tech device and fancies it up with some...
Y’know, Steve Jobs Might Be A Cylon, Too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8dJSquyUl0 Sometimes, you're a BSG fan. Sometimes, you find yourself with an old iMac. Sometimes, you add a Larson Scanner...
Students Trek Across Canada in an Electrified V-Dub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC7sFPBq9EkA team of students from the University of British Columbia hope to set the record for the fastest coast-to-coast drive...
Yamaha’s Silent Guitar Is Not Only Silent, But Near-Invisible
It would be uncustomary for me to let a day go by without showing off something designy and musical. Taking...
Chatroulette 2.0 Has Arrived – Guess How Many Genitals You’re Gonna See
Assuming you're one who enjoys nothing more than to gaze into the loins of a stranger, you'll be delighted beyond...
Reddit To Cheezburger: Maybe You Can Haz Us?
When you are a social bookmarking site/community owned by a huge mega-empire like Reddit is (Condé Nast for those not...
Tickets to Space now Available for $200,000
I was bored and decided to check out the Virgin Galactic site earlier. I ended up accidentally swallowing an entire...
Alien Pez Dispenser Destroys Your Childhood… In the Best Way
Today is Toronto's FanExpo. In celebration of utter geekdom for all, I present to you this day the Alien Pez...
Yo Dawg, We Put A Twitter In Your TV, So You Can Tweet While You Laze
What do you do while watching TV? People watch TV still, right? I guess I mean it in the classic...
iPhone App Almost Thwarts Burglary, But Doesn’t
There's a hell of a lot of crappy iPhone apps. Indeed, I myself have found about four that were useful...
Airport Security Goes All Total Recall
Continuing today's completely unintentional theme of movie technologies given flesh (er... or the lack thereof, in this case) is a...
You Thought Print Media Was Dead? Bro, You Haven’t Read Successful Farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtu-vqhOOAo Most publications are beginning to accept the death of print media. Magazines had a good, what, 100-year run or...
iPhone Controlled 3D Display For.. Something
https://vimeo.com/13059978 Okay, I've watched the video three times now, and I still don't entirely get what this thing is actually...
Iconic Visualization Of The Web’s Top Million Sites
You know those little icons you see in the tab of each website you visit? They're called favicons, from 'Favorite...
John Mellencamp Hates The Internet!
Shocking though it might be, Good Ole' Boy John Mellencamp hates the internet, despises iPods and tortures kittens in his...
Toyotas Are Now Simply Too Quiet
Toyota's 2010 Prius is getting a new speaker system upgrade - under the hood, to ensure that the car makes...
You Can’t Block the Zuck Rush
You're obvs friends (the Facebook kind, obvs) with Mark Zuckerberg. Zuck's a pretty fly dude. Runs a little internet startup...
Kraut Will Not Push Itself – New German Law Axes Facebook
This is entirely a new one. A new German law, penned by Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, will potentially disallow...