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Fly me to the Moon

NASA is offering up a chance to ride aboard, digitally. Sign up today to get your digital boarding pass to get your name flown around the moon. https://www.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-artemis/

Later this year NASA seeks to launch Artemis I, the first in a series of vehicles that have been under development to replace the Space Shuttle Program and provide capabilities to return to the Moon and venture to Mars an beyond. NASA is offering up a chance to ride aboard, digitally. Sign up today to get your digital boarding pass to get your name flown around the moon and…

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LiveWorx 2016

As with most years I’m once again attending and presenting at the PTC conference this year. PTC merged their PTC Global Live conference with LiveWorx to create the new LiveWorx conference. Each year this conference offers a variety of training and learning opportunities from companies around the world on PTC products. Creo, Windchill, Integrity, and the more recent acquisition ThingWorx.

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Happy Back to the Future Day

Happy Back to the Future Day #BTTFDay

“Two thousand fifteen? You mean we’re in the future?”

Today is the day Doc Brown and Marty McFly entered “The Future” in Back to the Future Part II. If you haven’t watched this movie, what are you doing on this site? No, really, log into Netflix, Amazon, drive out to the store, and watch it. Many movie theaters are also showing the movies in honor of 30 years from the original movie’s release. Go…

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Hello Pluto

Hello Pluto #PlutoFlyby

Tomorrow, July 13th we get our first good look at Pluto. The internet is buzzing with excitement of what we will see.

Google has already put up their picture for the flyby. (Source: Google.com)

It has taken New Horizons almost nine and a half years and 3 billion miles from launch to reach Pluto. It’s a long journey but it’s almost there. You can find out everything about the mission from the Pres…

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In search of a better To-Do app (Part 1)

In search of a better To-Do app (Part 1)

Let me start this off by saying this process was to suit my own needs, not your needs, not his needs, but mine. Everyone has their own process to pick out what they are looking for but hopefully this will help guide you to finding what works best for you.

How It All Began

I have the hardest time picking the simplest things. I started my smartphone journey when I transitioned to a flip phone that…

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Happy Halloween from Geekspiration.com Wishing everyone a happy and safe Halloween! Today is the day we all get to show off our geekiness and have no fear of judgement.

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Geeks Unite!

Gone are the days when comic book conventions were just for kids or creepy adults who live in their parents basements. Today comic book conventions bring in geeks and non-geeks of all ages and types. It’s not just comic books, but anime, manga, D & D, TV and Movie Fans, and every genre that one can geek on.

This awesome article from GeekTyrant shows how the extreme fans at these events come from…

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Gaming in the office

The last thing you would want your boss to catch you doing is playing on a video game console while at work, or while on the clock working from home. That is, unless of course you work in the gaming industry. What if you could use your gaming console every day at home and at work?

Many engineering companies now use 3D modeling to develop new designs. As these designs get more detailed and…

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Innovation Rule #2: Old Ideas with New Materials

The easiest way to start being innovative with a product is to take what you have and change the material you’re using. Throughout history we see this with the advances of metalworking.  The use of metal started out with mined ores and over time developed into rough alloys into today where alloys are carefully calculated for exacting material qualities. Along with this change we’ve migrated to…

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Sony Vaio, we hardly knew ye

Apparently Sony has stopped production and sales of all Laptops and Desktops. Even if they may still sit on store shelves you now have to dig through the archives of Sony’s site to find any mention of these devices. Tablets will likely fill the void as the world moves to a more mobile future.

My history with Sony goes back many years. My first laptop was an HP. I had it for 2-3 glorious years…

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Innovation Rule # 1: Make it interesting

Innovation Rule # 1: Make it interesting

Gift cards, the universal gift that you can buy anywhere for almost anything. Let me begin by saying I have a love/hate relationship with gift cards. They’re the easiest thing to buy for someone, but they don’t always express the same emotion as something uniquely picked out for someone. As I’ve once heard from a TV show that escapes my memory, “Thanks, you gave me something just as good as…

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Happy Geek Pride Day!

First let me wish you all a Happy Geek Pride Day and welcome to Geekspiration.

What is Geekspiration?

The definition of geek has changed over the years from someone who was socially inept to something more respected and revered. The definition I prefer is someone who is a knowledgeable and obsessive enthusiast. We all have our geek topic, be it football, technology, reading, or any one of an…

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