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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.

Bebo losing the race in social networking

Bebo losing the race in social networking

The once popular social networking site, Bebo, isn't faring so well against it's competition: Facebook and Twitter. Bebo is owned...

Unsurprising News of the Day: Touchscreens Are The Future

Unsurprising News of the Day: Touchscreens Are The Future

Analysts Gartner have churned the waters of their scrying pool and apparently decreed that by 2015, at least 50% of...

The Things We Do for Science: Real-World Grand Theft Auto

The Things We Do for Science: Real-World Grand Theft Auto

My friends and I have always talked about how arcade driving is so much more satisfying than real-world driving; you...

Drive Carefully with New BlackBerry Application

Drive Carefully with New BlackBerry Application

Ever sent a text while driving? Thought it would be alright to just pick up the phone and have a...

iTunes Makes Facebook Connect Connection

iTunes Makes Facebook Connect Connection

iTunes keeps cosying-up to Facebook, the world’s largest social network. Now it seems Apple plans to support Facebook Connect, enabling...

Solar Charger Just Might Be More Useful Than iPad For Developing World

Solar Charger Just Might Be More Useful Than iPad For Developing World

Going strictly by the chatter on the North American web,  you'd be forgiven for thinking the iPad is going to...

Treadmill Bike Sounds Like Drunken Idea But Is Totally Real

Treadmill Bike Sounds Like Drunken Idea But Is Totally Real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reyt3uiQqI8&feature=player_embedded Imagine it: two fitness buffs take a break from their rigorous exercise regime to get totally blitzed. Six drinks...

Applegirl’s PokerFace Matched Only by Mad iPhone Skills

Applegirl’s PokerFace Matched Only by Mad iPhone Skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzh2UygPwDU I can't decide what's more impressive about this video:  'Applegirl002's' skill in using iPhone apps to create music; or...

Safe Eyes Makes iPad Even More Kid-Friendly

Safe Eyes Makes iPad Even More Kid-Friendly

According to InternetSafety.com, Safe Eyes Mobile will provide protection for children using Apple’s latest creation, the iPad. Safe Eyes Mobile...

Spanish Government Officials Stealing Content On A Regular Basis

Spanish Government Officials Stealing Content On A Regular Basis

The Spanish government is quite unique as far as copyright laws are considered: it is completely legal to upload and...

Face-Meltingly Awesome Twitter Watch Renders Your Rolex Totally Unclassy

Face-Meltingly Awesome Twitter Watch Renders Your Rolex Totally Unclassy

I’m a total freak for Twitter. It’s the greatest thing to happen to the internet in ages, and I wish...

The Only Thing Missing is the Gasoline Smell

The Only Thing Missing is the Gasoline Smell

Man, it’s hard to believe the 50’s was 60 years ago. That’s the better half of a century. Time flies,...

Ice Trucking Just Got A Little Less SMART

Ice Trucking Just Got A Little Less SMART

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlf-Wu0bzsg As the proud owner of a Smart car, I simply had to post this. Mercedes gave Wired a couple...

A Robot to Light Up Your Life (or at least your home)

A Robot to Light Up Your Life (or at least your home)

You thought the way the Solar Pebble slapped the sun around was pretty cool, right? Right? Here’s another great way...

Why I Will Buy an iPad (Eventually)

Why I Will Buy an iPad (Eventually)

With the impending US launch of Apple's iPad, analysis and chatter has reached - well, fevered picth doesn't even begin...

Popular Science iPad App is Gorgeous and Functional

Popular Science iPad App is Gorgeous and Functional

  https://vimeo.com/10630568 Though you may be tiring of the iPad hype machine, this video of a forthcoming Popular Science may...

Early Toy Story 3 Review Suggests Pixar Can Do No Wrong

Early Toy Story 3 Review Suggests Pixar Can Do No Wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BlMNH1QTeE Except Cars, of course. Nobody knows what Pixar was thinking with that one. Okay, so if one wanted to...

Robot Waiters Efficiently Conquer Service Industry, Thai Food

Robot Waiters Efficiently Conquer Service Industry, Thai Food

Themed restaurants are all the rage these days - heck, even Kim Jong Il has a line of establishments with...

This Man is Sitting On the Future of Commuting. Maybe.




This Man is Sitting On the Future of Commuting. Maybe.




There are painfully few options available to the trendy consumer who wants to look silly in transit. Unicycles take too...

The War of Simplexity with Modern-Day Gadgetry

The War of Simplexity with Modern-Day Gadgetry

We are at war! At war with simplexity — this is where modern day devices are experiencing an identity crisis over...