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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
[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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
So there's an awful lot of dead people in Hong Kong, and I mean that with the utmost respect -...
Steve Jobs’ Yavin IV iPad Presentation Met With Mixed Feelings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbHF63b7g50 I haven't seen synchronization of this magnitude since that whole Dark Side of Oz business. The Death Star analogy...
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...
Yahoo Bags Beckham for World Cup Coverage – This Is Good, Right?
Oh, Yahoo, you're this, you're that, you're everything and nothing. What are you up to now? Uh... David Beckham, you...