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.
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!
Most people have occasionally stopped to wonder what life was like before computers, but if you use Photoshop, you understand...
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...
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...
First Depressions: iTunes 10, As Told by An Audiophile
More than a few times, Techi readers have called me out in the comments section about my abuse of the...
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=JC7sFPBq9Ek A team of students from the University of British Columbia hope to set the record for the fastest coast-to-coast...
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...
Because You Still Want An iPad Right The Hell Now
In case you wanted a giant phone, you'll be tickled previously-undefined shades of pink to know that you no longer...
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...