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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.

Five Things About Tech Culture That Make People Scratch Their Head

Five Things About Tech Culture That Make People Scratch Their Head

Look, we love technology. We really do. Our phones are practically glued to our hands and we get genuinely excited...

Pork Board Tenderizes ThinkGeek With Cease and Desist

Pork Board Tenderizes ThinkGeek With Cease and Desist

Poor ThinkGeek. Between mounting pressure to develop the iCade and now this, it's a wonder they bother to participate in...

Lights Out for Kimmel – Talk Show Host Breaks Out His Webcam

Lights Out for Kimmel – Talk Show Host Breaks Out His Webcam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1rRGUTB6OY Here's a weird one. Last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live! was all the more live: due to a power outage...

Sup, Geordi? Electronic Corrective Eyewear to Hit the Market This Year

Sup, Geordi? Electronic Corrective Eyewear to Hit the Market This Year

How have you been making use of your time? PixelOptics have spent the last decade developing emPower, which is -...

LA Times gets an iPhone habit

LA Times gets an iPhone habit

Got a world class newspaper you want to keep publishing as tastes go digital? The LA Times has, and so...

Metal your iPhone with Kiss and Slayer

Metal your iPhone with Kiss and Slayer

It could just be me, but I really like these two incredibly rock-tastic apps that recently appeared on the App...

The iPhone 4 Just Became Your Best Drinking Buddy

The iPhone 4 Just Became Your Best Drinking Buddy

Man, the iPhone 4 isn't even out yet and already the 'cleverest app' game has arguably been taken to its...

Three Reasons the PC Era Is Coming To An End

Three Reasons the PC Era Is Coming To An End

These days, if you asked most people which company is out to destroy the PC, they'd tell you 'Apple'. But...

IBM Develop World’s First Artificial Game Show Contestant – And He Cleans Up REAL Well

IBM Develop World’s First Artificial Game Show Contestant – And He Cleans Up REAL Well

Check this out. As you may or may not have already hit play, you may or may not already know...

CD Or Vinyl? Why Not Both!

CD Or Vinyl? Why Not Both!

The format wars are largely a thing of the past, and thank god for that. Now we're less concerned about...

Email, Reduced to A Series of Tubes

Email, Reduced to A Series of Tubes

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/10777240[/vimeo] This is totally flowing my mind. Developed by Dean McNamee and Filippo Cuttica of the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction...

For Better and Worse, The Web Is Changing How We Think

For Better and Worse, The Web Is Changing How We Think

In the past few weeks, the internet has worked itself into a state over one question: does the web make...

Heineken Gets Personal with Online Campaign

Heineken Gets Personal with Online Campaign

Awhile ago, I wanted to purchase some custom Converse shoes. Y'know, how on their website, they let you design your...

YouTube and The Guggenheim Begin the Quest for the Most Creative Video Ever

YouTube and The Guggenheim Begin the Quest for the Most Creative Video Ever

Now here's a partnership of which you'd never have fathomed to dream. The Guggenheim has jumped into bed with YouTube...

Insert Classless Joke About ‘Computers’ and ‘Running’

Insert Classless Joke About ‘Computers’ and ‘Running’

Gabriel Dishaw knows what beef is. Culling tech refuse for old circuit boards, processors, and other obsolete throw-away-ables, Gabe recombobulates...

Because Your WPM is Entirely Too High: Enter the USB Typewriter

Because Your WPM is Entirely Too High: Enter the USB Typewriter

Yeah, maybe I talk about iPads and iPad accessories a bit much, but this is seriously cool, so let's just...

Tech Soap: The Only Way You’re Scamming a Nerd Into Getting Clean

Tech Soap: The Only Way You’re Scamming a Nerd Into Getting Clean

You're a tech geek. You're dirty from logging 20 hours a day in your bedroom/office/cubicle/basement in front of things with...

Google Put It There. It’ll Go Away Tomorrow.

Google Put It There. It’ll Go Away Tomorrow.

Or: The Pac-Man Call. I... I can't even really explain this video (well, it's just audio, really). Poor Lorainne just...

Net of the Living Dead – Hong Kong Offers Online Cemetery

Net of the Living Dead – Hong Kong Offers Online Cemetery

So there's an awful lot of dead people in Hong Kong, and I mean that with the utmost respect -...

The Rise of the Bieber: How Pop Stars Become Famous Using the Web

The Rise of the Bieber: How Pop Stars Become Famous Using the Web

Justin Bieber. His name alone has become synonymous with levels of rage and annoyance previously unheard of amongst internet users...