Deep dives into niche interests, curiosities, experiments, hardware, software, science, and ideas that appeal to technically curious and enthusiast audiences.
How Big Is Your Byte: Twitter, Facebook And More In Bytes
As our world gets more and more complex, we tend to transfer that to the virtual world of ones and zeros. As we clear up more space in the real world, the complexity of the things we virtualize becomes ever greater in size. A great example of this are all the photos that millions of us take each a ...
Food Play: An Epic Playable Angry Birds Birthday Cake
How do you impress your kids these days? I mean, not that I am much for spoiling just for the heck of it, but in a day and age when kids pretty much have everything they wish for, what can you do to make their one day of the year so much more special than it already is? Well, it turns out there is ...
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How Star Wars Changed The World [Infographic]
Many times we have mentioned here on Bit Rebels how Star Wars has changed the world. There are more gizmos and gadgets then we really care to acknowledge that have come from those movies, and it's not about to stop anytime soon. We are inspired about a future full of robots, droids and gadgets tha ...
24 Images Of The Year 2000 As Imagined In 1910
It's easy to underestimate the future if you know what I mean. It will come in all the forms and shapes that you haven't even imagined yet. If someone were to say to me that they knew what the future would look like, I would immediately be concerned about that person's well being. And, since the ...
The Magic Of Viral Videos & A Food Court Disaster
It's so funny to me how people always want to know the step-by-step plan for making a video go viral. It's like they think a few people out there are keeping this big secret about it, and they will do anything to find out what it is.
What some people don't realize is that you cannot force a vide ...
Kinect SwimBrowser: Surf The Internet Doing The Breast Stroke
We all know what great exercise swimming is. When I first read about this, I thought, "Great! Now we can swim, get exercise and surf the web all at the same time." That's true if you can hack your Kinect the way David Stolarsky did.
For the 2011 PrimeSense/OpenNI Developer Challenge, he created ...
Inspiring Offices: Bubble Desk Landscape Interior Design
Offices around the world are starting to realize that having an inspiring environment will make people work harder and be happier while doing it. Some companies are still in the old frame of mind and don't really care about the work environments that their employees have to endure during their stay ...
Super Mario Bathroom: Expect Your Stay To Be Extensive
There are plenty of tutorials out there that show you how to geekify just about anything. To Super Marionize something is considered an art form in today's geeky society, and you can be sure that the accomplishments you achieved when you were younger, like finishing the first Super Mario game, will ...
How To: Make A Planetary Clock For Your Next Trip To Mars
I have written a lot of DIY articles on Bit Rebels, but I think this one has the most in-depth tutorial I've ever seen. Alexander Avtanski built a clock that can tell time on any planet according to how it rotates. It is all part of his Mars Clock Project.
My first question is, how does a perso ...
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Computers: An Awesome Chronological Timeline [Infographic]
If you are a geek then you know it is absolutely necessary for you to at least know some things when it comes to computers. For example, if you don't know what the Commodore 64 was capable of or if you have never marveled over the graphics that the Amiga 500 could generate, you have a few miles to ...
The Kiss Controller: Video Game Controlled By Smooches
Well dang, this could be better than Kinect! Instead of using your body as the controller, you use your tongue. Ok, maybe it's not better than Kinect, but it still looks like a lot of fun. This little gadget combines two of life's guilty pleasures, kissing and playing video games. That's right, ...
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Time Is Money: The True Cost Of Running Late [Infographic]
So there you are, about to start a new project, and the prognosis is good for a timely completion. Everyone involved is positive and thinking it's going to be great fun just to get started. You have carefully planned everything, everything except a delay. As time progresses, you start seeing thin ...
SpongeBob Lego Terminator Never Gets Old
Creativity must be the biggest word in the dictionary. No, really, it must be because there is not another word that fits so many things that we don't know about yet. Do you know what I mean? Sure, infinity is a pretty big one as well, but it doesn't fit the word creativity. Creativity; however, ...
NES Beads: The World Of NES Games In Stop Motion Beads
It's been done for many years now, and it comes in several different forms and shapes. The materials used are always different, but the technique used is the same. You move around some stuff, take a picture, and then you do that again a couple thousand times until you have your finished movie. Eve ...
Star Wars Characters In The Form Of Zulu Mask Design
I sincerely thought Star Wars couldn't reach into any other areas, but as I came across this find, I quickly realize that I shouldn't make assumptions anymore. It's quite apparent that Star Wars in itself has a boundless ability to be converted into just about anything. With the right kind of imag ...