Content focused on how technology affects daily life, habits, work, health, creativity, and personal productivity.
iFong: The Edible iPhone Snack To Satisfy Your Sugar Craving
It seems everyone is trying to come up with the next i-thing. It's no secret that there are a lot of knockoff products out there that all have the letter "i" in them. I wonder if they think adding that will, in some magical way, increase sales like it was the only thing it needed. Well, the days whe ...
Common Icons That Always F-ck Up Your Day
I guess we all have those days when everything seems to go south. We do our best to remain patient, yet everything that possibly could go wrong...well, does go wrong. It's nothing to get too upset about. Just keep treading the path until a new day dawns. There are of course things that add to the an ...
Elaborate Portraits Created On A Grain Of Rice
You've heard of microscopic art before, but can you imagine spending months working on one grain of rice to create an elaborate portrait? That is what 58-year-old Taiwanese artist Chen Forng-Shean does, and it's what I would call extreme minimalist art. According to Chen, this type of art requires g ...
Delicious Love Notes: Edible Ink In Edible Cards With Edible Envelopes
Valentine's Day is only 12 days away! It's time to start thinking about what you want to get for your sweetie to show her how much you love her. Give her something this year that will make her heart sing - something that you know none of her friends will get. It doesn't have to cost a lot of money, ...
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This Is How Much Time We Have Left In Life [Infographic]
Richard wrote an article a few months ago about how not to waste your life, and this reminds me a little of that. We often write articles about being entrepreneurs, and what it takes to develop the thick skin, dedication and commitment to see your ideas and dreams through until the end. One of the h ...
The Chair Snuggie Will Wrap You In Warmth All Winter Long
January is the coldest month of the year where I live, and I pretty much spent the entire month underneath my electric blanket writing. When I'm not enjoying my techie heat source, I'm walking around wrapped in my snuggie. Now that there are snuggies for adults, kids, babies, dogs, and even our gadg ...
Canon D60 Camera (With Battery Grip) Created Out Of Solid Chocolate
These days, it seems like almost everything from an iPhone to a pair of high heel shoes can be created from chocolate. Whatever it is you like, you can probably find someone who makes it from chocolate. Up until today, probably the most outlandish chocolate creation I've written about was the chocol ...
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10 Unusual Ways To De-Stress After A Day Of Working & Blogging [Chart]
I've never known a time before when everyone was so busy and rushed in life. It seems we all try to fit as much as possible into every 24-hour period, and it is almost unhealthy at times. We eat at our desks, we skip exercising to work longer, and we don't spend as much time with our families as we ...
Science Behind Your Thoughts Affects Your Business & Success
A few months ago, Richard wrote an article called The Mental Effects Of Facebook Addiction. In that article, he pointed to a source that suggested people who are addicted to the Internet have a 10-20% smaller brain in the areas responsible for speech, memory, motor control, emotion and other informa ...
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Success Indicator: Characteristics For A Successful Life [Infographic]
The debates that usually spawn around the word "success" are always tedious and tiresome. It seems people have an urge to tell other people what success is, and why it's not something to strive for. Maybe this is a way for some people to approach the word without feeling like they aren't doing enoug ...
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60 Incredibly Simple & Fast Lifehacks To Optimize Your Living [Video]
Life is just too short to worry about all of the chores we have to do all day long. I mean, they all have to be done, but there are of course ways to optimize them. It is called lifehacking, and it is a popular way of solving problems without having to spend a whole bunch of cash or time. They are s ...
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Hidden Dangers Of Working In The Food Industry [Infographic]
The food industry can be brutal. The first job I ever had was working at a funnel cake stand at an amusement park that shall remain nameless. On my first day, I arrived in my cardboard shorts and polyester polo starry-eyed and excited to try my hand at making my single favorite food in the park. My ...
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Okpo Land: South Korea’s Abandoned Amusement Park [12 Pics]
If there's one lesson to be learned from watching Poltergeist, it's this - before buying land, do your research. If you don't, you and your plucky nuclear family may just find yourselves playing multi-dimensional tag with a hell-beast. Sure, the chances are slim, but do you really want to risk it? T ...
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Indulge Expensive Taste With Inexpensive Home Ideas [Infographic]
While you're pinning that cool vase or couch on Pinterest, you could be at the store picking out your own new furnishings. You don't need a big budget to trick out your space, even if you have expensive taste. You just need a little preparation, a can-do attitude and maybe a paintbrush. This infogr ...
Internet Dating Advice For Independent Women From The WSJ
I read about this a few days ago in the Wall Street Journal, and I wasn't going to write about it on Bit Rebels, but it's stuck with me, which is usually a sign I should go ahead and put it out there. First of all, I want to tell you that I have zero firsthand experience with Internet dating, but I' ...