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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.

Yo Dawg, We Put A Twitter In Your TV, So You Can Tweet While You Laze

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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 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

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...

Five Unsung PC Components That Made Our Lives Better

Five Unsung PC Components That Made Our Lives Better

Sitting in front of a modern, fancy laptop or blazing fast quad-core desktop, it can be easy to forget just...

Addicted To Gaming? There’s A Pill For That

Addicted To Gaming? There’s A Pill For That

The current generation of children, destined for a life of rickets and obesity due to lack of sunlight or exercise,...

Karma Eventually Catches Up With Gizmodo

Karma Eventually Catches Up With Gizmodo

If there's a textbook definition of karma, it might be Gizmodo Editorial Director Brian Lam leaving his phone in a...

From the Department of Things That Don’t Need To Exist: Keyboard Shoes

From the Department of Things That Don’t Need To Exist: Keyboard Shoes

Yo, dawg. I heard you like Twitter, so I installed a keyboard in your shoe, so you can tweet while...

Jobs Huffed and Puffed and Blew His House Down

Jobs Huffed and Puffed and Blew His House Down

Steve really hates his house - in fact, he's been meaning to tear it down for years. Does this make...

Why Nothing Will “Save” Print Media

Why Nothing Will “Save” Print Media

That, I freely admit, is a controversial title. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it any less true. While there is always...

Justin Bieber and the Accidental Ambient Music Genius

Justin Bieber and the Accidental Ambient Music Genius

It is a dark day when I can wholeheartedly admit that a Justin Bieber song is tickling my fancy in...

Want An Invite To The Dorkiest Kegger Ever?

Want An Invite To The Dorkiest Kegger Ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwVoir5HSo4 Even dorks need downtime, and what better way to relax than with a nice cold beer? But wait. What...

World’s Longest Email Address is 345 Characters Long – That’s Alotta Long

World’s Longest Email Address is 345 Characters Long – That’s Alotta Long

There is absolutely nothing I can say here that isn't expressed in the headline of this post or punctuated by...

Pink Floyd? More Like… Like… Pink… GONE… Whatever.

Pink Floyd? More Like… Like… Pink… GONE… Whatever.

If you're looking for iTunes, Amazon, or other digital releases of Pink Floyd's material this month, you'll be appalled and...