Deep dives into niche interests, curiosities, experiments, hardware, software, science, and ideas that appeal to technically curious and enthusiast audiences.
3 Brain Teasers to Drive You Nuts
I've always loved brain teasers and optical illusions. They often leave me feeling dazed and confused, scratching my head in disbelief.
They are fun because they remind us of two very important things:
1) Not everything our eyes see is real.
2) Just because our eyes don't see something doesn' ...
Glasses that Photoshop Reality
Our world is not perfect and that is a reality that we contend with everyday. There are days when you feel the urge to just change everything with Photoshop.
Here is a video of Freya and Natasha explaining how owning a pair of this new glasses they call Re-Frame can actually change the way we lo ...
How To Flirt | The Science
It was just a matter of time until someone went and published this I think. It would have been quite obvious to publish this video clip as we're talking about social media and that it's taking over the world one person at the time. Is that making us less social? Not in the words meaning itself but i ...
How To Detect a Lie
It's something that everyone indulge in every now and then. Someone who says they never lie is probably lying right then and there. There are several tell tail signs that a person is lying if you're just open enough to the truth. To spot someone lying can sometimes be very uncomfortable and telling ...
10 Tips to Get Your Girlfriend/Wife to Watch Sports
As football season begins here in the States, women around this country and others are grumbling about football overtaking their lives for the next five months. I have a bit of a different perspective because I love football, so I would like to offer all the men some tips for how to get your girlfr ...
Lego Bricks with Over 2M Views? WOW!
Lego is one of my favorite topics as kids and the young at heart can truly relate to the many hours of fun one can have with the colorful bricks and the amazing stuff you can build with them.
Came across this video with over 2M views and over 41K rating. The title is 8Bit Trip. 1500 hours of mov ...
Fantastic Fractals
I was never any good a maths in school, I managed to scrape through my final exam with a grade higher than I was predicted... I got an "E".
Enough about my sorry past! I love Fractals! A fractal is a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geo ...
6 Secrets to Winning “Rock, Paper, Scissors”
We play Rock, Paper, Scissors in our house daily. Whether we are deciding who gets to choose a restaurant, who has to unload the dishwasher or who gets the remote control, we all agree on one thing: We respect the winner of Rock, Paper, Scissors.
If you are unfamiliar with this little game, h ...
Retro Revolution
To cut the mirror from the SLR provides a far more enjoyable and better consumer camera, but the Olympus E-P1, can not justifiably be called an SLR since it has no mirrors.
But - by removing the mirror the camera becomes thinner and can use smaller lenses, so the result is a thinner and really comp ...
How to Super Chill a Coca Cola in 2 Minutes
When we crave for something to energize us while working late hours or just to quench our thirst we usually think of Coca Cola or any other carbonated beverage. When we do we usually also want it to be crackling cold as it will treat our taste Budd's better. I recently (actually right now) found mys ...
Laugh it up
I love to laugh. I laugh at myself often, or with my office mate & bitrebel's co-writer, Rob MacKay. It breaks up our day, and creates a fun environment for us to work through our sometimes tough days. So why do we laugh? How does it become "the best medicine"?
The What: Its an audible expres ...
Most Outrageous Food Fight
I’ve been a writer on bitrebels for a month now. This is the first time I’ve posted something that could be considered completely random and a bit shocking.
I think artists fall into two categories: creative people and creative super freaks. Stefan Nadelman definitely falls i ...
Biggest Waterslide On Earth, Real or Hoax?
Three weeks ago, another wild and crazy video hit the internet like a freight train. Since that day, it has received over 2,600,000 views. What's all the fuss? It is the biggest waterslide on earth being tested, successfully! In this 45 second video you can view someone flying over 100 feet in t ...
Rubik’s Cube Wonder!
Here is one cool packaging idea the Rubik's Cube Font generator.
The handiwork of Jas Bhachu of the Liverpool School of Art & Design, the cube has rubber stamp impressions on four of its sides, and by twisting it through different orientations can create a variety of characters.
Inside th ...
Paper iPhone?!
You wouldn't believe it, but the iPhone you see here is actually made of paper. Yes found an old article from Gizmodo, wherein a subscriber sent in a PDF file on how to build one. Here is what the article says.
"A faithful reader by the name of Matt J. made a paper craft iPhone for you to print ...