Deep dives into niche interests, curiosities, experiments, hardware, software, science, and ideas that appeal to technically curious and enthusiast audiences.
5 Bars Of Soap Designed To Keep Gaming Geeks Smelling Goooood
If you're a gamer who likes to stay locked up inside your house in your own world on the weekends with a bag of Doritos, a six-pack of Coke, and a controller in your hand, you might not be smelling your best by the end of it all. If you have a hard time breaking away from the games on the computer, ...
How To Look Like You Can Solve A Rubik’s Cube Even If You Can’t
Hey, that's cheating! Well, not really. If you ask me, learning this little insider secret for solving a Rubik's cube is almost as good as knowing how to solve one the traditional way. Knowing how to solve a Rubik's cube is like a rite of passage for a geek. At some point, if you want to be legit, y ...
LEGO Controller For Nintendo NES That Actually Works
The creativity of LEGO builders has always immensely impressed me. Their ability to create things out of blocks that actually work sometimes borders on the insane. I mean, how on earth are you able to take all the intricate technology in a gadget and convert it into an analog system? It's beyond me ...
Order Of The Stick: The Best Webcomic For D&D Fans
Since I'm a lifelong fan of the wonderful world of Dungeons and Dragons, and a lifelong fan of webcomics, I am a firm believer that comic creator Rich Burlew has struck geek gold with his stick figure fantasy comic series 'Order of the Stick,' which is commonly referred to as 'OOTS.' OOTS began in 2 ...
Sci-Fi Fantasy Cosplay: Alien & Predator Are Best Buddies After All
We've featured some pretty insane sci-fi fantasy cosplay over the years, but this Alien and Predator cosplay is intense. I never thought I'd see them hugging like they're best buds. These pictures are definitely well done and creative. The message these cosplayers hope you get from this photography ...
Retro Super Mario Belt Wraps An Entire Level Around Your Waist
If you were around in the middle of the '80s, you could probably turn on a Nintendo NES game station today and start playing Super Mario Bros. while remembering every single detail about the game. You know, the secret area above the game level in the underground on the first level for example. Or, t ...
All The Main Star Trek Characters From 6 Versions In One Geeky Chart
Star Trek is such a geek classic, and if you are a trekkie, you're going to drool over this massive chart which has all the main Star Trek characters from 6 different versions of the show. Star Trek has influenced our lives in so many ways, and probably the most significant way that I can think of i ...
DIY Doctor Who “Crack In The Universe” For Your Own Wall
I'm a huge fan of the Doctor, and I've incorporated a TARDIS into many aspects of my life. My hand-painted TARDIS iPhone 5 cover is a great way to start a conversation with anyone since so many people ask me about it. It occurs to me that when it comes to Doctor Who, the only articles I've written ( ...
Shatoetry: William Shatner iPhone App Celebrates The Spoken Word
Formerly Captain of the Starship Enterprise and more recently Master of the Twitterverse, William Shatner is taking his distinctive Shatneresque style to a whole 'nuther level. He’s boldly embracing technology with a new iPhone app that enables users to convert poetry to “Shatoetry” with the push of ...
Guy Spectacularly Proposes With The Iron Man Arc Reactor
When it comes to marriage proposals, it seems there is no one as creative as the geek. We have seen quite a few examples of that here on Bit Rebels over the past few years. Most recently was the Super Mario proposal that Diana wrote about yesterday. But there have been other proposals as well of cou ...
9 Geekiest Television Ads From Well-Known Brands In 2012
Gone are the days when hot girls and guys are the main focus of advertising campaigns. This is the generation when you can officially say that “geeks are in!” We were all introduced before to a society where outer beauty was very important. But as the years passed, big geeky brands emerged on the ma ...
Be My Player Two: The Geeky Super Mario Marriage Proposal
We've featured a lot of geek marriage proposals on Bit Rebels before. This other Super Mario Proposal from a year ago where the guy printed hundreds of pieces of paper and taped them to his living room walls to look like the game was pretty much known as the geekiest proposal at that time. That vide ...
NES Cartridges Recycled Into Art Canvases Are NEStalgic
The '80s made for some of the most memorable gaming systems, and anyone who grew up in that decade is well aware of the 8-bit characters we came to easily love. Long before the Saturday morning cartoons, sibling rivalry wars often occurred over who was going to play which player in the games (if the ...
The Tiny Spy Camera That Looks Like One LEGO Block
I don’t know what it is with LEGO blocks and cameras, but they seem to go together well. There have been dozens of LEGO cameras created over the years, but this one is extra adorable. It looks like a tiny spy camera created from one LEGO block. As it turns out though, it may be inspired by LEGO, but ...
Freeze The Force With The Star Wars Lightsaber Ice Pop Maker
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, 'twas the night before Christmas Eve and I was visiting with family while we put the finishing touches on the preparations for the next few days. A few gifts were opened by those who would not be with us Christmas Day and one caught my eye. Being ...