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Samsung Announces 800,000 Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Shipped
As it turns out, smartwatches are becoming big business, which will of course drive the quality forward. When people first started talking about smartwatches, most did not know what to expect. There are features not yet implemented that could really revolutionize mobile computing, and that is where ...
Digital Business Card: Best Way To Make A Lasting First Impression
Business cards have long been the primary way to present ourselves when building new contacts in the real world, (you know the one outside our office window). For years, the business card has had the same design, and at best you have had the option to choose what kind of paper and print it should ha ...
Guy Creates Portable Pocket Consoles Out Of Every Retro Console
We love everything that has to do with portable gaming here at Bit Rebels. Whether it is the games on your smartphone, or complete upcycled consoles which have been miniaturized into pocket consoles. It's all very exciting, and we have featured many of these things over the years. I think everyone r ...
Math Whiz Recreates Minecraft Gameplay On His Graphing Calculator
Yesterday I wrote about a guy who hacked his calculator so that he could play Game Boy games on it. Well, as one Twitter follower of mine pointed out, he didn't hack his calculator as much as he hacked his Game Boy to fit into his calculator case. So now that this it out of the way let's check out s ...
Deconstructed: Anatomy Of 18 Popular Video Game Controllers
We spend thousands of hours on games each year, but do we ever really think about how it is all possible? I mean everything is working as it should, for the most part, and we play our games from start to finish. But what about the hardware, the actual devices that make it all possible? That is somet ...
Hacker Puts A Physical Touch On The Gaming Classic Breakout
With XBox Kinect and Nintendo Wii developers tried to bring a more physical element into gaming. I do not know if it is accurate to say that it was successful or not. Neither of those options feel as if they correctly depict how these devices have performed as far as sales go. They certainly managed ...
Guy Hacks Calculator To Play Game Boy Games
I can't express how impressed I am with people that take retro game consoles and modify them into something that is utterly insane. Some even build a handheld console straight from scratch. This article is going to deal with something I think most of us want or wanted when we were bored in math clas ...
Ultimate Interactive Photo Frame Consists Of 20 Android Tablets
Do you remember the first time you saw one of those slideshow or movie picture frames? You could connect it to your computer via USB and it would be fed pictures that randomly showed up. It was the ultimate photo frame back then, but things have changed and it's no longer cool to sport one of those. ...
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How To Know Whether To Buy A PC Or A Mac? [Flowchart]
We are actually going to take on the ongoing question whether to buy a PC or a Mac today. Don't go thinking this article is one of those "Are PCs better or does the Mac actually outperform the PC". It is not one of those articles at all actually. This one is more aimed towards helping you decided wh ...
Hacked 1950s View-Master Now Plays 3D Videos From DVDs
When the View-Master was announced back in 1939, it became one of the most popular entertainment gadgets you could possibly get. Since then, the glory of it has somewhat fallen into the shadows. However, it is still available if you would like to purchase one which should definitely speak of its imp ...
ALARMclock: Motivates You To Get Up In A Different Way
What kind of alarm clock do you have? Does it ring, beep or perhaps play music? Well, whatever alarm clock you have it's nothing compared to a new product developed by Fig. We can all use a little bit more motivation and encouragement when we wake up in the morning, and this alarm clock is definitel ...
Modder Builds Incredibly Sleek Portable XBOX 360
Recently we have featured a lot of custom builds here on Bit Rebels. They range from Raspberry Pi builds to complete overhauls that make your mind go numb out of excitement. So far though the technology that has been overhauled has been somewhat old, which means it can be shrunken into a rather smal ...
SecretInk: Send Emails That Automatically Self-Destructs When Read
There are a lot of features and gadgets in the world that make you feel a little bit like James Bond, but none of them are as mysterious as the self-destructing message that we sometimes see in movies. It usually is a task of some sort that a secret agent has gotten and to clean up any trails it sel ...
Future Roads To Be Resurfaced With Glow In The Dark Coating
As expected after having seen TRON: Legacy, there is a lot from that movie that we could introduce into our own world as well. We know from history that both Star Wars and Star Trek have been major influences in the technology field, but there are other fields as well that we need a hand in perfecti ...
Nokia’s Secret Multi-Display Smartwatch Project Surfaces
Now that the smartwatch concept has been released to the world by several developers, many are already trying to refine it or re-innovate it. There is a lot to do still when it comes to smartwatches, and in my humble opinion, I don't think we have even scratched the surface of what a smartwatch can ...