Author: Richard Darell
Kinect Hack Makes Future Navigation Just Like Minority Report!
The more I get into this new and exciting piece of technology, the more I understand what a huge impact it will have. Not only will it impact gaming, but also pretty much every area that has to do with computers. Some "hackers" have prompted that the technology behind the Kinect is significantly m ...
1,000 Articles and Yet There Is More…
It took 529 days for me to write 1,000 articles. Anyone with a sense for math knows that's roughly 2 articles a day, every day. And that's pretty much what we do over here at Bit Rebels, and we do this because we love it. The sharing of geeky awesomeness is what keeps us motivated and inspired. I ca ...
Kinect: Hacked To Let You Interact As A Puppeteer!
Even though I hate to admit it, I must say that I am still very new to the whole Kinect movement. Sure, I have seen my share of vids and demonstrations, but I am still to get into the technology behind it. What's clear is that it is a truly interesting and useful tool in not only gaming, but in a ...
LEGO 3D Scanner: Bringing Real Objects Into A 3D World!
I have many times wondered how LEGO came to be. Someone must have been dying to be able to put together really complex builds and decided to create some tools to do it. Yeah, it's a simple explanation to an invention, and I am probably miles away from pinpointing it's birth reasons. LEGO is just ...
HolePunch: Here’s How You Bring Love Back To The Office…
I know a lot of people that dread every Monday morning because that's the day when a whole new week of endless working begins. It's not so much that they don't like their jobs, but because they like their free time a lot more. When you are self-employed, it's a whole different thing I guess. Sure ...
Wrap-a-Nap: Part Pillow, Part Blindfold Makes You Look…
The world is filled with super cool inventions and ideas. All you really have to do is to take a look around you, and I am sure you will at least find a couple of hundred inventions that you don't even think about during your everyday chores. The fact is that when something has passed the boundari ...
Spare Wood Becomes Stunningly Cute Wooden Robots
Recycling can be done in so many ways, and it's important to know that as little as it may seem that you are doing by recycling, overall it makes a big difference. The ideas you can get from reusing something old to create something new could possibly lead to a whole new income source. It's not re ...
Star Wars Typography: 3 Amazing Ad Campaign Posters
Digital art comes in a multitude of forms and shapes. Games, logos and website design are all forms of art in a certain way. But there is one form of digital art that always strikes a conversation when it is viewed, and that is typography. Sure, it doesn't have to be digital at all. As a matter ...
Weather Widget: Show Off The Weather In Star Wars!
I recently read about a little 1st grader girl who got bullied at school because she liked Star Wars, and she had a water bottle with a Star Wars theme on it. I mean, what is the world coming to? Star Wars has become a lifestyle for many, and I am sure for them these things doesn't go by unnoticed. ...
This Is What Happens When Artists Do Too Much…
Artists have a way of exaggerating reality in order to highlight their subject, and usually it is in every possible visual way. It becomes the tool to catch people's attention and to change the look on the subject, they try to deliver. However, for every artist that exaggerates reality, we get eve ...
Hour Glass Traffic Lights: New Digitalized Ancient Approach
By the sound of it, there certainly seems to be a wave of new designs for pretty much everything that we encounter in our everyday life. With a mindset that nothing is ever finished being designed, there are people out there that constantly refine, invent and redefine our future in the most awesome ...
Phone Kerchief: Block Your Cell Phone From Ringing During Dinner
Throughout the years, since the cell phone was introduced into our lives, a sort of etiquette has slowly been formed about when it's appropriate to use it, and when it isn't. There are still times though where we use our phones even though a lot of people find it annoying and offensive. The most o ...
Arcade Pinball: Drool Worthy iPad Pinball Emulator Accessory
A friend of mine and I used to have enormous battles after school playing pinball. We were working on some software together, and during the pauses, we used to gear up Pinball Fantasies on our Amiga 500 to rock some scores. We had to time our battles since we usually played way longer than intende ...
iRetrofone: The Badass iPhone Dock To Call Your Friends On
Are you sick of using that new yet same ole iPhone to call your friends? Sporting a new iPhone isn't generating the same cool it used to. Also, who knows what microwaves are cooking your brain when using it. Even though there are scientific reports on pretty much every commercial cell phone out t ...
Second Life: Transparent Cell Phone Adds A Second Perspective
Apparently there are people out there that are very excited about the see-through (transparent) cell phone concept ideas. So much so that the idea has grown into a full movement where people are trying to make it a reality. It's easier said than done though. The technology of plotting pixels on a ...