2378 Stories
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.
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...
How Popular IS the iPhone? About This Popular
On any other day, I'd tell you I hate infographics. I'm really, really sick of seeing everything turned into a...
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......
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...
Acer Founder: Apple is a ‘Mutant Virus’
Stan Shih sure knows how to get a party started. In an interview with Digitimes yesterday, the Acer founder went...
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...