Deep dives into niche interests, curiosities, experiments, hardware, software, science, and ideas that appeal to technically curious and enthusiast audiences.
7 Useful Geeky Gifts To Make Your Holiday Wish List
It’s that time of year again when we go dashing through the Internet to surf for geeky gifts that will make us jingle with joy. From cyberculture toys to gaming laptops, we want to make our geeky friends' noses glow with happiness when they see the gifts we bought for them. Let’s not forget how much ...
Star Wars Mod: The Super Geeky & Fabulous R2-D2 Scooter
When it comes to Star Wars mods, there really is no limit to what fans can create. I was going through all the Star Wars mods we've written about over the past three and a half years so I could find my favorite one to share with you, but there are literally hundreds. It's almost impossible to choose ...
Leather USB Bracelet: Take Your Special Memories With You
The trend over the past few years has definitely been to carry our data with us in the form of wearable USB devices. We've written about a lot of them, and my favorite has always been the R2-D2 Flash Drive Cufflinks. Too bad I'm not a guy or I'd be all over those. There has been a lot of USB jewelry ...
10 Illustrations Of Disney Characters Sneaking Into Star Wars
It can't have escaped anyone that Disney is in the process of acquiring Lucasfilm Ltd. for around $4 billion ($4.05 billion to be exact). It's a move that has stirred up quite a lot of feelings across the Internet. Disney seems to have immediately, but unofficially, announced that they want to make ...
It Turns Out…A Real Zombie Apocalypse Is Possible After All
Zombies are all the rage, and they have been for a few years now. The inevitable zombie apocalypse has inspired more products, preparedness guides and designs than we can count, but none of us actually think a zombie apocalypse is possible, right? Scientists have come out many times and said that it ...
2 DIY Simple & Sturdy LEGO iPad Stands Built By Kids
I remember when the original iPad was released a few years ago, one of the first things people started talking about was how strange it was that it didn't have a stand. People thought it was awkward to have to hold it while using it. Of course, by now, we've all gotten over that. Most of us have som ...
Meet Titan: The World’s Fastest Supercomputer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory completed their upgrade of Jaguar, which is now branded Titan. It is the fastest supercomputer in the world (at the time I'm writing this). Titan runs on Cray XK7 blades which use AMD Opteron 6274 CPUs and Nvidia Tesla K20 GPUs. It is capable of performing 20 petaFLOPS ...
Extreme Pumpkin Mod: Playable, Electronic Tetris Inside A Pumpkin
I've written about quite a few extreme pumpkin carvings before, but this one is insane! If you are fan of retro video games and freaky pumpkins, you are going to love this. It's a playable, electronic Tetris built right into the guts of a pumpkin. What will you use for the controller? Well, the stem ...
Bat Hangers: Creative & Sleek Batman Clothes Hanger Design
I think all Batman fans secretly want their own batcaves. If they don't want a batcave, they definitely appreciate finding ways to bring Batman into their homes to add a little superhero spice into everyday life. We've written about too many Batman designs to count, and to this day, the Batman Lawn ...
World’s Most Expensive Data Storage Disk Is Made From Sapphire
What if you wanted to record and present information on a data storage disk for someone who may stumble across it 200 years from now, or how about 10,000 years or a million years from now? Recently Patrick Charton from ANDRA (the French nuclear waste management agency) presented one way to accomplis ...
Imagine A Future Where We’ll Be Able To Download Memories
It sounds like the stuff of science-fiction and geek ideology, but the ability to download memories may be a full blown reality for the future generations of planet Earth. Science (well, Neuroscience, Neuroengineering, and Optogenetics to be exact) is getting closer and closer to creating a solution ...
The 10,000 Year Clock Inspires Us About The Future Of Humanity
It’s the year 4012, and there’s a ringing in the middle of a mountain. It’s a song no one on Earth has heard before, and it’s a song that no one alive will ever hear again. The 10,000 Year Clock is a project to capture the imagination. It’s also a project designed to inspire questions. Why would you ...
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13 Must-Have Tools For Surviving A Zombie Outbreak [Infographic]
We write about a lot of infographics here on Bit Rebels, but few have been as entertaining as this one. There are so many bad infographics out there, as you know. Then there are tons of them that provide great information at a glance, and even others that don't provide any real info, but they are so ...
My Quest For The Utopian Laptop: Does The Perfect Laptop Exist?
Dictionary.com has one definition of Utopian as founded upon or involving idealized perfection. So when my wife was in the market for a new laptop and I volunteered to help her find one, I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. Is there such thing as a perfect laptop?
There are hundreds o ...
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Finally Get Published: How To Publish A Book [Flowchart]
I remember about ten years ago when it seemed like everyone wanted to publish a book. So many people had it on their bucket lists, and somehow the topic always came up when I was talking to colleagues and clients back then. I remember speaking to Mark Victor Hansen about the whole experience at a co ...