Deep dives into niche interests, curiosities, experiments, hardware, software, science, and ideas that appeal to technically curious and enthusiast audiences.
Bugatti Veyron – The World’s Most Advanced Lego Build
There's been a lot of Lego chatter here on Bit Rebels lately, and we know it. There is just no getting around the awesomeness of that block. I am not even going to go into what makes it awesome anymore cause if you don't get it by now, I am sure you never will. As we have concluded, there is Lego ...
Provocative Lego Ads – The Ads You Don’t Want Your Kids To See
There have been a bunch of Lego ads through the company's lifetime and each one is more creative than the one before. One thing they all have in common is the block itself, not much more. The ads are usually about everything from regular builds to references to the legendary piece of plastic. No m ...
Check Out This Bizarre House: It’s Upside Down!
Talk about having too much time on your hands... Polish designers Klaudiusz Golos and Sebastion Mikuciuk openly admit that they built this upside down house for no other reason than "wanting to do something different."
There have been a lot of upside down houses built around the world, they are r ...
The Key Card Hotel: Even The Toilet Is Made Out Of Cards!
What do you normally do with your key card when you leave a hotel? Throw it in the garbage can? I used to do that until I watched a documentary about how our personal information can be stored on them for someone to retrieve. So, I started saving them. Now I have a bunch from all over the world. ...
The Longest Letter Ever Written – Do You Know Who It’s To?
This is very touching. About ten days ago, a new world record was set for the longest letter ever written, and you'll never guess who it was written to. The previous letter that held that record was a note to Santa Claus.
A bunch of students in India decided to celebrate their Silver Jubilee ye ...
The 6 Million Bottle Man – Making Good Use of Beer Bottles
This story is going to blow your mind. This guy that lives right outside Buenos Aires spent 19 years of his life collecting 6 million glass bottles and has now built a humongous environmentally friendly house out of them.
No matter how bizarre this sounds, this cute and crazy old man definitely ...
Chip Gripper – Eating Potato Chips Will Never Be The Same
It's fun to see some of the gadgets that people invent. It is especially entertaining to watch those inventions that walk the fine line between being completely useless and ingenious. I'm happy to report that this is one of those inventions. I can't decide if I need to have this right away, or if ...
The Boardroom Table Made From Over 22,000 Legos!
I sit in a lot of meetings. I’m in a boardroom somewhere in Atlanta at least a few times each week. Boardroom tables are typically so boring. Just thinking about sitting at a dark brown mahogany table with water glasses stacked neatly in the middle makes me sleepy.
When I saw a tweet from my de ...
Barbie Revenge – The Most Creative Use of Barbie’s Body Parts
When I was at Target the other day, I noticed that now there are two types of Barbies on the shelves: Ones with boob jobs and ones without. I couldn’t believe it. I just stood there staring at those Barbie dolls with a swirling mix of emotions.
I thought everything from “Dang it, now you have ...
For True Trekkies | The Real Life Star Trek Bachelor Pad
Aww.. this story is a little sad, but at least it has a happy ending. We all have those people that we follow online and keep up with. Since I’m a die hard Star Trek fan, I’ve been watching Tony Alleyne online on and off for years.
He’s the guy that went Star Trek mad after his wife divorced hi ...
Brick World | How To Repair a (LEGO) Brick!
With all the talk about LEGO and the massive and exciting amount of LEGO builds presented her on Bit Rebels, I started thinking... Sure there must be some kind of machine that can create life size LEGO bricks for humanity to use instead of those pesky bricks we are using today. Guess what? There i ...
Romantic Venice City | Finally A Lego Build For The Ladies!
As Richard pointed out in his last post, Avatar Legolized | Insane Na’Vi Killer Helicopter, we have a lot of Lego articles here on Bit Rebels. I am a huge fan of Legos, and as I was looking at some of the mind blowing builds we’ve featured, one thing became very clear to me, most of them are very ...
Avatar Legolized | Insane Na’Vi Killer Helicopter
I don't know how many Lego articles we have here on Bit Rebels but I don't care. Some of these builds are just too cool to miss out on sharing. The imagination of some of the builders is just stunning and it must take quite a while to get everything in its right place for the intended builds to come ...
11 Super Mario Goodies to Make a Geek Say Yum!
Just as a refresher for those who play Wii and have not had the chance to enjoy Super Mario Bros - Super Mario Bros. is a platform video game developed by Nintendo in late 1985 and published for the Nintendo Entertainment System as a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros. In Super Mario Bros., the titu ...
How To: Handle a Parking Douchebag and Keep Your Sanity
Yesterday when I was at the market, I was driving my very small car which fit nice and neat into a parking space for compact cars. A few seconds later, a huge suburban pulled into the compact car parking space next to me and it was such a tight fit that the driver hit my door when he got out.
Wh ...