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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.
Paper Tweets, Handly Like A Paper Calculator
Reading the headline there's few surprises here for those bothered to read on. Someone has invented the Paper Tweet. You...
A Dating Site for Virgins. What’s Next, a Dating Site for Unicorns?
The Internet is a beautiful place. Filled with almost limitless information on any topic imaginable, chances to connect with huge...
TorrentReactor Purchases Entire Russian Village, Renames It ‘TorrentReactor’. No, Really.
What are you downloading right now? Don't give me that face. Few people don't hit the torrents. I've got season...
The Internet is Serious Business: Conservatives Conspire to Rig Digg
Who said the internet was a sunshiney liberal wonderland of free speech? In an attempt to steer the internet, a...
A Breath of Fresh Bag
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13517348[/vimeo] Hey, remember that scene in that movie, where the guy filmed that plastic bag? That was American Beauty, right?...
Is It Hot In Here, Or Is It Just You?
For the gentleman who is just too hot for his own good, Thanko has been gracious enough to supply the...
Yoko Ono Warns Beatles Fans of Possible Suffocation Risk
"Steve Jobs has his own idea and he's a brilliant guy," says Yoko Ono of that guy with the sweater....
Epson Employees Take Papercraft to the Streets
I don't own a printer because, frankly, I don't want to deal with the cost of ink. Ink is hella...
SteamPunk, Google Earth and iPad? Yes Please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T7DXWUiIA I've always found SteamPunk a little bit of an enigma. Who are these people combining antique items and old...
Man Vs. Washing Machine, Brick Helps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=364dzVsBs2o This is plain silly, and not entirely relevant to, well, anything. But it's fun to see people destroy expensive...
Doh! Anti-PSP Law Firm’s Website Is A Rip Off
Nobody likes the companies the RIAA and MPAA are using to chase Peer-To-Peer file sharers, but I was particularly tickled...
Video Artist Fills His Scanner With Ants – What Are You Doing With YOUR Weekend?
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13703448[/vimeo] Straight outta the wish-I'd-thought-of-that department comes François Vautier, a video artist unafraid to sully precious technology with soil and...
iPhone Captain’s Log App, Stardate July 30 2010
Both closeted and outed Star Trek geeks can now enjoy the Star Trek Captain's Log app for the iPhone 4....
Five Websites That Will Make You A Better, Smarter Geek
Let's face it, internet chums. For all the wealth of incredible, mind-expanding content there is online, we spend a lot...
Are The Economics of the Web Making Us Stupid?
Whenever someone talks about how the internet is making us stupid, I tend to get a little skeptical.After all, for...
Rushin’ Roulette – Ternovskiy Brings Down the Chathammer
"I believe that Chatroulette was great in the first honeymoon days after it was launched," says Andrey Ternovskiy, the founder...
Will Wikileaks Rock Traditional Media Too?
Now that 90,000 military documents about US military activity in Afghanistan, you can almost be assured that some revelation will...
New Photo App Lets You Travel Through Time
You know what the internet loves? Nostalgia. Seriously. I mean, have you ever heard of Tumblr? It's full of people...
“The DMCA Says WHAT? It’s Time to Fix That Nonsense.”
Woah. This is big. You know how the DMCA says it's illegal to, say, crack the DRM on a DVD...
Prop Designer is One Daft Punk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0TBZeCgL0E Maybe you've heard of Harrison Krix. But you probably haven't, so let me give it to you straight: this...