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Remember to never leave the sunroof open while doing this...

2009-05-11T09:00:00.000-07:00

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The most badass wall clock you will see today watch!

2009-03-16T19:07:00.000-07:00

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100+ Funny Photos Taken At Unusual Angle

2009-03-15T22:03:00.000-07:00

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes this ain’t exactly right. Distance overlapping, positions, and timing can sometimes create a brand new perspective of a photo. This weekend, we want to show you 100+ Funny Photos Taken At Unusual Angle, a compilation of photos taken at the exact right timing and angle, thus creating a humor side of the story; intentionally or unintentionally.

Magazines, Books and Album Covers

More album cover photos - I, II, III

The Sunset

When Angle Isn’t Exactly Right

Fan Art

Creative Perspective

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The Wrath Of Women

2009-01-12T17:49:00.000-08:00

A compilation of a few women getting revenge on their boyfriends.

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Japanese Human Slip-n-Slide

2009-01-12T17:24:00.001-08:00

These guys come up with the craziest game shows. This time they drench 20 smokin' hot chicks with oil and have some old dude try to slip and slide over every one of them.

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Ninja Cat Climb Stairs Upside Down

2009-01-11T20:50:00.000-08:00

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Antarctica Condition 1 Weather

2009-01-11T20:45:00.000-08:00

Crazy ass snow storm in antartica...

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All the simpsons intros

2009-01-10T18:39:00.000-08:00

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History of the Internet

2009-01-10T14:04:00.000-08:00

"History of the Internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org , which are available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this project.

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

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French girls on game show - HOT!

2009-01-06T22:04:00.000-08:00

A French game show of some sort, it's about - aw who cares what it's about it's got HOT chicks with nice boobs and asses!

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Bill O'Reilly is...

2009-01-06T21:27:00.001-08:00

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Hamburger is Awesome!

2009-01-04T11:00:00.001-08:00

We decided to make burgers today since we were watching football. We wanted to fresh grind the meat ourselves and see how it stood up on the grill. It turned out very well!

The setup. My friend has a meat-grinder attachment for the Kitchaid, so she brought it by and we set it up to grind the meat. The meat was fresh chuck from the butcher. It was cut into somewhat small pieces the night before and salted. Supposedly if you grind it and then salt overnight, you can begin to cook the meat. So, it's best to leave it in smaller pieces and grind the next day right before you cook 'em. This is 3.5 lbs of chuck that we made into 8 burgers.

Working the grinder

Grinding the meat. It went through the grinder twice - it still seemed a little chunky the first time around, so we put it through again.

Big bowl o' meat

Making the patties. Be sure to not work the meat too much - don't push too hard.

The formed patties. We sat the patties on the counter for about an hour to bring them up to room temperature.

Loading up the grill. We cooked them with the top on for about 3 min on the first side, then another 3 min on the other side. After that we put the cheese on and let them go for another minute to melt it.

Add the blue cheese for the home stretch

Yum!

Burger construction. The burgers sat for a few minutes, then we put them together. We had some carmelized onions, fresh avocado, along with the other typical condiments.

Final product

Overall it was a great success. Grinding the meat yourself makes for much tastier burger - they taste fresh, the flavor is much better, and they aren't as dense as traditional burgers. There wasn't any seasoning in the burgers except for a little bit of salt and a quick hit of black pepper.

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Weave Bacon Recipe

2009-01-04T09:59:00.001-08:00

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Solar with Lyrics

2009-01-03T22:26:00.001-08:00

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

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Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn

2009-01-03T22:20:00.000-08:00

Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Crush & Lovely on Vimeo.

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Beautiful Skies of Norwey

2009-01-03T22:01:00.000-08:00

Norwegian Skies from Eva Sturm on Vimeo.

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Man Gets Destroyed by Paintballs

2009-01-03T21:38:00.000-08:00

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Ninja cat comes closer while not moving!

2009-01-03T21:00:00.000-08:00

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Cool and Wild Tree Table Designs

2009-01-03T17:44:00.000-08:00

Creative tree-shaped table designs that could be mistaken for the real thing.

Metal Tree Table

Tree-shaped table created from metal by Forrai Metal Design. [link]

Stink Tree Table

Coffee table by Dylan Gold was inspired by the silhouette of the Tree-of-heaven, also known as ailanthus, Chinese sumac, stinking shumac or simply, the “Stink Tree”. [link]

Tree Table

Creative “Tree Table” by Ben Platts Mills. [link]

Beaver Creek Tree Table

Product of 100 hours of heavy welding, carving and forging. [link]

Evolution Tree Table

Unique table design by Barclay Moore. [link]

Glass Top Lemon Tree Table

Table constructed from a California Lemon Tree. [link]

Witness Tree Table

Witness Tree table made from forged and welded steel. [link]

Tree Coffee Table

Coffee table, designed by Per Weiss in 2007. [link]

Glass Tree Tables

Creative table designs made from forged steel and glass. [link]

Tree Table by Sebastian Errazuriz

Stunning Tree table by Sebastian Errazuriz priced at $120,000. [link]

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20 Amazing And Incredible Lego Sculptures

2009-01-03T10:59:00.000-08:00

Today, I’m sharing 20 Amazing and Incredible Lego Sculptures with you guys designed by some very talented artists. I loved them and i hope you will also like them. Share your thoughts through comments under the post.

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Images from here and here.Thanks to them.

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Cover Of Sesame Street Magazine From 1976

2009-01-03T10:19:00.000-08:00

I can't believe this. PBS KNEW about the potential for attacks, nearly 30 years early. Why didn't they do anything to prevent them? More failures of our public institutions.

Modern and Creative Bookshelf Designs

2009-01-02T11:04:00.000-08:00

Modern bookshelves and creative shelf designs from all over the world.

Rolling Shelf

A wall mounted shelving unit in which the shelves roll back to accommodate tall objects and remain in position until you move them back to their original position. [link]

Magnetic Shelves

Each shelf contains between one and three neodymium magnets, which are very powerful and allow for a strong connection to your fridge. [link]

Graffititek Bookshelf

Based on Parisian Graffiti art, the design aims to offer new perspective on the craft by reinterpreting it in a three-dimesional way. [link]

Triangle Shelf

T.shelf is a unique shelving system that can be setup around your existing furniture, or can be just hanged by itself as a sculptural object. [link]

Polar Bear Shelf

The Polar Bear Shelf is a bookshelf that is shaped like a polar bear. [link]

Movement Bookcase

The Movement Bookcase includes a arrangement of bent nails which can be shaped in the form of legs and arms, acting as book holders. [link]

Christmas Tree Bookshelf

A true modernist finds unique ways to decorate. Case in point: the Christmas Tree Bookshelf! [link]

Modern Shelves by Maria Yasko

“Unusually beautiful” is the only way to describe the designs of Maria Yasko, a Russian designer inspired by nature and the surroundings. [link]

Skateboard Shelf

Skateboard shelf is a piece of furniture that every skateboard lover would tell your that is awesome. [link]

The Infinity Bookcase

Bookcase that represents the infinite power of books and learning. [link]

Cave Bookcase

Sakura Adachi designed a special Cave bookcase for urban people. [link]

REK Extending Bookcase

REK is a bookcase that grows with your book collection. The more books, the bigger the bookcase. [link]

MYDNA Twist Bookcase

Creative bookcase design with twisted shape. [link]

Neverending Bookcase

Unique project by Luca Nichetto for “I have a dream! 2007″. [link]

The Amazing Staircase

Levitate Architects came up with this ingenious solution to a book storage problem and created a loft-like bedroom nestled under the roof of the top-floor apartment. [link]

Albero della Cuccagna Bookcase

A bookcase for children designed like a tree by Matteo Casarosa. [link]

Inverted Bookshelf

The inverted bookshelf turns a bit of your living room upside down as it hangs all of the books from the bottom instead of supporting them from below. [link]

Lovely Rita Bookshelf

Lovely Rita can live as a single shelf or be repeated endlessly by combining additional units, becoming a bookcase of the desired length. [link]

Equation Bookshelf

A simple idea of dividing things in priority order… put together the books that you need immediately or more important between (parentheses)! Set others between [square brackets] and {braces}. [link]

Malus Communis Shelf

Creative tree-like shelf used for storing cds and dvds. [link]

Spell Shelf

Designer Da-Eun Song had an interesting idea when he designed this shelf that spells out shelf. [link]

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How Russians Install Air Conditioners

2009-01-01T21:02:00.000-08:00

I must say, that's pretty hardcore...

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Happiest Day Ever!

2009-01-01T12:49:00.001-08:00

I finally did it, married my girlfriend of 5 years. She means the world to me, I cant believe what a lucky guy I am. I never thought I would find true love, but now that I have my life is complete. Here are the pictures from our ceremony:

I tell you guys, that night was amazing, I am truly happy that I waited until marriage to lose my virginity.

The beautiful brides maids:

My army buddies were all over them

Here is our wedding cake, it was actually sculpted out of twinkies

My wifes favorite part of the night:

Here we are on the way to our honeymoon, happiest day of my life!

This Is How a Dog Should Sit

2009-01-01T12:42:00.000-08:00

When you teach your dog how to sit, this is how you do it.

Have You Ever Seen Guitar Hero Played Like This?

2009-01-01T11:52:00.000-08:00

A big hit for presents this holiday season was some version of Guitar Hero. Guitar Hero World Tour even comes with a drum set so you can have your own band. If anyone is thinking of setting up a band, I recommend trying to get this chick to be one of your guitarists. She might not look like she can rock but she definitely rocks that thong bikini.

Now if we can only get her to jam like the dude in this picture and I am sure the first album would go triple platinum. Check out the video below and you will see what i mean.

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Chinese Claypot Rice

2008-12-31T11:07:00.000-08:00

Chinese sausage and some home made Chinese bacon (lop yuk), steamed until soft and then topped with dark soy sauce.

Looks yummy, no?

A Gamers Life

2008-12-31T01:42:00.001-08:00

The Ten Coolest Movie Posters of 2008

2008-12-30T21:53:00.001-08:00

It is time once again for the FSR Year in Review, our annual week of lists and recaps, counting down the very best in film for the year. In between now and January 1st we will be bringing you the best and the worst, the uplifting and the depressing, the sexy and the geeky — all of the best, worst and otherwise notable moments in film from the past 365 days. We begin our quest with the place where most cinematic journeys start, with a great movie poster. The ten movie posters below not only got our attention, they also kept us interested, entertained and excited about the movies to come. These ten rose above all others to become the upper echelon of film’s most basic marketing device. Have a look at our list of The Ten Coolest Movie Posters of 2008 below (click the images to enlarge).

Cloverfield

When audiences saw Transformers last year, they were treated with a trailer for a film that told them only two things. One was that the film came out on 1/18/08. The second thing is that everyone heard something different, like “I saw it, it’s a lion, it’s huge!” What? Everyone threw in their theories as to what the film was about…from a Voltron movie to a new Godzilla. Then came the poster. Everyone studied it as closely as they could, just to find a clue about what J.J. Abrams had up his sleeve. No matter what though, look at the imagery. There are not a lot of things more powerful than a decapitated Statue of Liberty in front of a decimated New York City.

The Dark Knight

Remember when no one knew who was going to play the Joker? More importantly, do you remember when everyone found out that Heath Ledger would be playing the Joker? Loads of fan art, and fake production stills made their way to the webs and we all speculated as to how awesome or how bad Ledger’s Joker might be. One step at a time kids. I can remember the first time I saw this poster. I just stared and said to myself ‘This is so creepy, this is so awesome.’ Fans were delighted and curious. Eventually some real production stills of Ledger’s Joker were revealed…and from what I hear, his portrayal was pretty good.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Jason Segel just can’t win. He has been the red-headed stepchild of the Apatow gang for years. He had never been in the spotlight, until now. The guy finally starred in his own film…and then they took him off the posters. Poor guy, they actually took his mug off the posters because the studio found that his face didn’t test well with people…but it gave way to this fantastic marketing campaign. Why is this so fantastic? Do you have any idea how many real life Sarah Marshalls had to deal with seeing “You Suck Sarah Marshall”, “My Mom Always Hated You Sarah Marshall” and “You Do Look Fat In Those Jeans Sarah Marshall” all over town? Genius.

Harold and Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay

This poster evokes one of two thoughts. 1) What kind of acid was in my popcorn? or 2) NPH, awesome. In their follow-up to the awesomeness of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, our favorite stoner minorities took the extra step with this poster and gave audiences more of what they craved. All I know is that this poster is really something to be appreciated. That is why I love to see the expressions of middle-aged parents when they see Doogie Howser on a mighty steed. Little do they know, it is written that NPH will ride a mighty unicorn and heal the world.

Iron Man

I think that with movie posters, more is less. If you can make a statement with a single iconic image, it really says something about your movie. There it is, that one glowing eye surrounded by red and gold armor. It tells you that Iron Man is ready to hit theaters and become your new favorite superhero. Iron Man doesn’t need anything flashy to impress. When you can show people only 1/20th of the hero and they get excited, you know you have a hit on your hands.

Pineapple Express

Judd Apatow has started a trend with his ‘floating head’ movie poster marketing. Even though they have all followed the same recipe, each one has had a flavor all it’s own. This poster’s flavor might be smokey…or pineapple-ey. Nonetheless, the poster does a couple things in that it tells you it is a stoner movie, and it is going to make you laugh silly. I really appreciate that James Franco allowed himself to look like a dirty stoner for the integrity of the film.

Saw V

So I’d really like someone to try and make a poster creepier than this. And no, you can’t refer to the parodies of this poster that have John McCain’s face. Seriously though, what kind of sickness does someone need to have for them to think about putting a chubby hairy man wearing a human-face-mask on to a theatrical poster? Then again, this is a Saw film we are talking about.

Tropic Thunder

How can you not look at this poster and laugh? So not only did the movie trailer look hilarious, but it also featured Robert Downey Jr. in his most challenging role to date. He would be playing an Australian actor, playing a black Vietnam soldier. If I had told you this back in January, you might have thought I had gone crazy from Syphilis. But sure enough, Downey Jr. played a black man and this poster showed him in all of his black-face glory.

Wall-E

Pixar has a way with affecting people’s emotions. They have taken so many small things, and given them so much life. When they said that they would be taking a character who didn’t speak and try and make a film out of it, many people weren’t in their corner. However while this little guy can’t speak, as you can see from a poster like this one, his actions speak louder than words. I feel like a little kid again when I see these Pixar films. Wall-E, and his poster, just made me grin from cuteness.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Kevin Smith didn’t make it very easy for himself with the MPAA by naming his movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and also pissing them off with an unapproved trailer. Then they gave him a hard time over a couple lousy seconds. So what did he do? He didn’t get mad, he didn’t get even, he just played their game…but only better. He poked back at the MPAA and mocked their attempts at toning down a movie with the word Porno in the title. You have to admit, even in this poster Elizabeth Banks is smoking hot.

Top 10 people in technology

2008-12-30T19:53:00.000-08:00

Despite the troubled state of the economy, 2008 was a year of great change and successful leadership. Here is TG Daily’s list of the year’s top achievers.

Blaming failure or crediting success to a single person is always a difficult task, especially when we talk about companies whose performance relies on hundreds or thousands of employees. But there is no doubt that this industry has fascinating and inspiring personalities whose vision and drive for change is impacting the way we use technology today and in the future.

There are countless people in this industry who deserve to be recognized, but based on their exposure and leadership, here are those who we believe had the most impact on technology in 2008. Feel free to chime in at the end of this article.

10. Jason Kilar
CEO, Hulu

Operating a video site that is backed by major video and media content providers (NBC Universal, News Corp.) avoids many headaches, but the progress Hulu made in 2008 is impressive. The site has become strong enough to force Google’s YouTube into a new business model and is pioneering an attractive way to watch TV shows online. Kilar joined Hulu from Amazon.com, where he had developed the firm’s entry into the video business and headed up the company’s application software efforts. Comscore estimates that Hulu has about 24 million unique visitors who watch about 235 million videos per month. That translates into a market share of only 1.7% (as compared to 40% of YouTube), but it makes Hulu the sixth largest video site on the web. Will Hulu become the destination Joost wanted to be? Possibly. Keep an eye on Kilar’s site.

9. Jonathan Ive
Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Apple

Apple is Steve Jobs and Steve Jobs is Apple. That is the impression we got when Jobs delivered one of his speeches over the past decade. A great new product idea? Steve Jobs had it. Great design? Yes, Jobs designed it. Despite this perception, we all know, of course, that this is not the case. There is a number of amazing people in Apple’s company that contributed to the firm’s success and would deserve much more visibility, but had to remain in the shadow of Jobs. This scenario is likely to change this year as we have first signs that Steve Jobs may be preparing his exit from Apple. It isn’t Phil Schiller, who is generally believed to succeed Jobs, whom we chose for our list, but Apple’s design guru Jonathan Ive. We tend to criticize Apple for its overpriced products – and praise the company for being able to sell its products with insane profit margins. This is mainly Ive’s fault: Technology often shows a trend of function being more important than form, but Ive leads the industry with being able to push the frontiers of form and function in every new Apple product. The iPhone, Apple’s increasingly important cash cow, is just one example. The company is often perceived to be design-focused and if that is truly important to the company, then Apple’s next CEO needs to be passionate about design. And we do not know anyone more suited for that job than Jonathan Ive.

8. Evan Williams
Co-founder and CEO, Twitter

Internet success is often based on perception. Williams has been, in our opinion, the master of creating perception in 2008. The reward for the growth of the site especially in 2008 and the perception of an enormous reach was rewarded with a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook, which Williams and co-founder Jack Dorsey rejected. In fact, Twitter may be much smaller than you think: According to Comscore, the site has about 5 million monthly users, which puts it within the top 500 websites globally, or just about into the range of TG Daily’s former mother ship Tom’s Hardware. But Twitter is growing at an astonishing rate: The user base has reportedly been tripling every sixth months. And Twitter may be emerging from a niche into a mainstream product: Basically lightweight mechanism for pushing short 140 character messages, so-called tweets, to the Web and cellphones, Twitter made headlines when evening news anchors relied on tweets from Taj Mahal guests to post first account reports on the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Twitter recently secured $15 million in funding and has grown into a major social networking service in 2008.

7. Mark Hurd
CEO, Hewlett Packard

When Mark Hurd accepted the role of CEO at HP in 2005, shortly after the company had fired Carly Fiorina, expectations from the company were low. Declining revenue and falling morale, as well as a corporate scandal created one of the least attractive of its kind in the country. However, the former NCR CEO was able turn the giant HP back into the wind, overtake Dell in PC shipments and recently IBM in server volume, grow the services division organically and through a $14 billion acquisition of EDS, a company that holds numerous large-volume service contracts HP was competing for anyway. Despite recently announced layoffs, HP remains one of more healthy companies in today’s IT world. Hurd quietly grew the company to an industry giant that recently announced revenue growth of 19% and stable quarterly net profit of more than $2 billion. For the first time in its history, HP’s 2008 revenue is expected to sail past IBM’s sales: HP reported fiscal 2008 revenue of $118.4 billion, which is believed to be about 10% more than IBM’s estimated annual revenue (IBM will report numbers in January.)

6. Steven Sinofsky
Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Microsoft

Would you want to reinvent Windows Vista? Steven Sinofsky has exactly that job. Windows Vista is a considerable failure for Microsoft, surrendering market share to Microsoft’s rivals at a faster pace than ever before in Windows’ history. Windows’ market share is currently at a 15 year low. Sinofsky lowered expectations in the Vista successor by stating that the OS is built on top of Vista, but has done a superb job raising expectations again, indicating that Windows 7 may become the operating system Vista should have been – and ultimately correcting the mistakes his predecessor Jim Allchin made. Early Windows 7 builds suggest it will be more than a big Vista patch, with innovative features like a new taskbar with live task thumbnails and an optimized performance with a smaller memory footprint that should make Windows 7 a less demanding OS. Sinofsky scaled back the size of Windows development team and opened the development process by setting up a blog called Engineering Windows 7. At least at this time, Sinofsky represents a new generation of Microsoft leaders that signal a change in Microsoft’s business and product strategy. He is off to a fantastic start, but he needs to expand his efforts to reignite the enthusiasm for Windows, because we know that Microsoft needs to get this one right. There isn’t much room for failure.

5. Mitchell Baker
Chief Lizard Wrangler, Mozilla

What a year it was for Mozilla. Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of Mozilla is the Silicon Valley darling of 2008. She was instrumental in the creation of the Mozilla Foundation when American Online shut down its Netscape division and reduced its involvement with the Mozilla project five years ago. She has been steering Mozilla through difficult business waters ever since and recently renewed a royalty deal with Google which gives the organization another lifeline of three years. The flagship product, Firefox, has been gaining market share at the expense of IE under Baker's watch – at an accelerating pace: The browser is now used on more than 20% of all computers that are connected to the Internet, while it forced IE below 70% web usage share. Baker is the key personality of the 2008 browser year.

4. Andy Rubin
Director of Mobile Platforms, Google

Rubin, former Apple engineer and co-founder of Danger (sold to Microsoft), oversees the development of Google's Android operating system for smartphones. Prior to joining Google, Rubin founded Android to develop an open-source operating system for MIDs, but Google quickly recognized its potential and acquired the company outright. Though more Android-powered handsets beyond T-Mobile's G1 are yet to arrive, Rubin's Android is now the most serious challenger to Apple’s iPhone OS. Rubin is busy extending the challenge to the mobile application store market with Android Market, Google's version of Apple’s App Store. But there is a lot more to Android than meets the eye. We hear chatter about Android-powered netbooks allegedly coming out next year, which means that Android may become Google's free desktop operating system the industry has been talking about for years. In any case, Android was Google’s most significant product release in several years.

3. Bill Gates
Co-founder and Chairman, Microsoft

You didn’t think we would forget about Bill Gates, did you? That said, Gates is on this list not because of his 2008 achievement, but because of his significance for the industry as a whole and his decision to retire from his full-time participation in Microsoft earlier this year. Consider it a lifetime-achievement award. He founded Microsoft in 1975 and tremendously impacted the way we use the computers that are in our offices, briefcases and living rooms today - he turned the PC into a commodity. It is unlikely that Gates will disappear from the technology stage anytime soon. He will remain visible through his charity as well as a mysterious new “think tank” called “bgC3”.

2. Reggie Fils-Aime
President and Chief Operating Officer, Nintendo of America

Three years ago, there were few who were willing to put their bets on Nintendo and its role in the video game console war with Microsoft and Sony. Sony dominated, Microsoft tried to figure out its direction and Nintendo ended up as the company no one saw coming. Reggie Fils-Aime is the charismatic face behind the stunning success of the Wii in the U.S., outselling Microsoft by a factor of 3:1 and Sony by 5:1. Of those 34.0 million current-gen game consoles sold, 15.5 million consoles carried the Wii logo. Both the Wii and the handheld DS differentiate themselves from its rivals with a unique user concept and unique content that attracts a much larger user base than traditional gaming devices. 2008 may be remembered as the year that brought video consoles not just to teenagers, but to parents and grandparents as well. Microsoft has made impressive progress in this space with its aging Xbox 360 platform as well, expanding the game console beyond video games. However, we have no doubt that Fils-Aime and Nintendo are driving this new gaming trend in the U.S. at this time.

1. Elon Musk
Co-founder, SpaceX; Chairman, Tesla; Chairman SolarCity

In the end, the top spot in our list was pretty clear. Elon Musk, PayPal co-founder, is our most important person in technology in 2008. Musk leads rocket developer SpaceX, electric car company Tesla and solar energy company SolarCity – three key efforts that have the potential to significantly shape this country’s future in space and green technology. SpaceX recently signed a $1.6 billion contract to provide rockets to NASA for 20 ISS service flights between 2009 and 2016. Tesla is considered to be the most promising electric car manufacturer in U.S. and SolarCity is believed to be is the largest provider of residential solar power in California. Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, is the principal owner of Tesla and the primary investor in SolarCity. The proceeds from the sale of companies he founded - $307 million from Zip2 in 1999 and $1.5 billion from PayPal in 2002 – enabled him to venture into the areas of his interest: Internet, clean energy and space. Musk had a breakthrough year in 2008 and the future looks bright.