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iOS ’86: If The iPhone Was Released In The 1980s
Everything we see on the screen today has gone through some sort of development process. The look, feel and usability has evolved through time, and that is pretty much the process for every gadget, software or service that we all use today, even the ones you have created yourself. It always starts w ...
iCade 8-Bitty: Retro NES Controller For Your iPhone & iPad
The retrofication of gadgets and pretty much everything around us is something that is really dear to my heart. I love the memories connected to gadgets that I used to play with when I was a little kid, and that is likely never going to go away. That is why when I find something truly awesome, I get ...
Lomokino Attachment: Turns Your iPhone Into A Badass Lomo Camera
It's somewhat of a known fact that amateur photographers love to get their photos to look dusty, old school and charming. It could possibly be one of the reasons why Instagram has become so successful since they launched their photo editing service online. There is one more step you could take if yo ...
La Sardina Belle Start: Most Beautiful Lomography Camera Yet
With the ever expanding usage of photo services on the Internet, it seems that Instagram is the one that is growing the most. I made the mistake of calling it a photo sharing service at some point, and I was was quickly bombed to the core. Apparently you can't really call it that. The service that I ...
iPhone Retro Cases Will Bring You Back A Decade
Time to get retro back up in this place. By retro, I mean really retro, as in Apple. You are carrying around that new iPhone of yours, and no one is impressed anymore. There's just no mojo left in it that will dazzle people, like your interaction with Siri for example. You are carrying dead weight s ...
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The Startup Ecosystem: Tech Roles Compared [Infographic]
Planning and executing a startup is one of the hardest things you can do in order to make sure you stay on course. Having an intricate plan for how you will scale your business is key to your success in many cases, and it's a necessity to stay inspired and not lose focus. However, building the perfe ...
Leafsnap App: It Would Make Darwin Drool
Categorizing and classifying: these are the sorts of things that taxonomists are good at. While the rest of us may be able to sort our clothes by brand, our plant classification skills have really gone downhill in the last 100 years. Today, our hunting and gathering takes place in the grocery store, ...
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Internet Usage Predictions For 2012 [Infographic]
If you are an every day developer for the Internet, it is always important to stay on top of the trends when it comes to what is going on and what is going to be the next big thing. It is of course almost impossible to know exactly what will be the next success, but that doesn't keep us from predict ...
USB Wall Outlet: No More Searching For The Power Adapter
Have you ever needed to charge your cell phone only to realize that you left the USB power adapter at home on your desk? How many times can you stop by the same Apple store to borrow one of their cradles conveniently hot glued to the display table? Seriously, you've never jack powered while pretendi ...
Kissenger: Kiss Transmission Robot That Delivers Online Kisses
Now that so many people are meeting their sweethearts online with the help of social media, it makes sense that we'd start seeing more and more gadgets that are designed to make the romantic online dynamic feel the same as if it was romantic IRL, sort of. As much as we (me included) will argue that ...
Mozilla Launches Brilliant New Web Developer Tools In Firefox
It has long been debated just what tools, software and debugging approaches developers of websites and web solutions should use. Everyone seems to have their own software park to play in, and to some extent it has a lot to do with what each individual finds easiest to work with. Some might find Drea ...
Morse Code Twitter Device Brings The Retro Into Tweeting
In an age when basic devices are more complicated than anything you could get your hands on in the '80s, people are constantly looking for simpler ways to get their business done. Just about a week ago, we reported that there was a new application for jailbroken iPhones to tweet by just using your v ...
The Ultimate Scale That Out Scales All Other Scales
Here on Bit Rebels we've reviewed scales (mostly mean ones) before, but honestly, I don't think we've ever seen anything quite like this. Truthfully, this is not one of my favorite subjects. I mean who really cares about something that reminds you that you shouldn't have washed down that bacon chedd ...
Go Green & Eat Crap: Edible Burgers Made From Human Waste
Japanese researcher, Mitsuyuki Ikeda, has discovered a way to synthesize edible steaks and burgers from proteins derived from human feces. Due to the overabundance of sewage in Japan, Tokyo Sewage approached Ikeda to explore its possible uses. Ikeda discovered that the sewage mud contained high leve ...
Automated Storytelling: Cavemen Are Rolling In Their Graves
Everyone loves a good story, right? I can't count how many times I've "zoned out" during a presentation of some flavor, and my ears perked up right after the speaker uttered the magical words: "I have a story for you....".
What can I say? I'm a sucker.
The act of storytelling goes wayyyyy back ...