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Future Of Retirement: The Elder-Care Robot That Will Look After You
How would you feel about a robot looking after you in your elderly years? With an estimated 1.5 billion people expected to be over 65 by 2050, we would need about the same amount of people employed in the Aged Care industry to look after them all. That’s an astonishing projection of 30% of the popul ...
How To: Block Phone Numbers, Texts & FaceTime Calls Using iOS 7
With all the high tech features packed into our iPhones, it's always seemed a little strange to me that we can't easily block phone numbers, text messages and FaceTime calls. There are ways to do it of course, but if you don't want to jailbreak your phone or go to the trouble of creating a special r ...
Ad Agency Determined Who To Hire By Monitoring Interns’ Brainwaves
People are constantly saying that it's difficult to score a job in today's fierce and competitive job environment. I wish I could tell you that it will get a whole lot easier, but technology is going to somewhat change the course of how we land a job. You most likely came to this article after readi ...
Sound Band: Soundless Headphones Ensure A Private Conversation
For decades, researchers have been tinkering with noise reduction technologies. Since sound travels through the air in pressure waves, it is believed that if you can reverse the pressure waves and meet the original pressure waves halfway to their destination, you can cancel out the sound entirely. S ...
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Is It Privacy Paranoia Or Does The Internet Know It All? [Infographic]
If you have been using social media for a while now, you know how important privacy can be. There have been plenty of examples where social networking services have a different idea about what privacy is compared to its users. Sometimes social networking services have a different agenda than that of ...
World’s First True Color 3D Printer Has A Trick Up Its Sleeve
When the 3D printer first arrived on the scene, people were a little skeptical about its future. Could it really become a revolutionary device that one day would become a central part of everything we do everyday? I think the 3D printer speaks for itself nowadays. There are still leaps to be taken o ...
HOT Watch Enables Seamless Palm-Speak Calls
Is the market too saturated with smartphones? Have people started to look beyond the smartphone? At first glance, that could very well be the case. We see it more and more in the media when everyone talks about a smart watch. It is said that it could possibly accessorize the smartphone if it is good ...
Magazine Picture From 1930 Predicts Today’s Smartphone Lifestyle
When it comes to predicting the future, people typically come up with exaggerated ideas. At the same time though, there is often an element of truth in what people think the future might hold. We write about futuristic ideas a lot on Bit Rebels, especially when it comes to forward-thinking technolog ...
Xbox Controller Motor & 3D Printed Case Make Smart Gear Shift Knob
I was lucky in that I learned how to drive a 'stick shift' when I was a teenager. I remember the learning curve. My car stalled out at the top of many hills back then while I learned how to put the car in first gear (and let off the clutch just right) after the light turned green. Now there is an ea ...
Disney Unveils New Haptic Mid-Air Touch Sensation Technology Aireal
I don't think it's a secret that we here at Bit Rebels love technology, especially technology that is based on all things science fiction. It's when technology is taken beyond our current realm that the most exciting results will follow, and that is the case with virtual reality accessories today. M ...
Brilliant Raspberry Pi Build That Is Like A Babysitter For Hurt Bird
It's heartwarming when technology improves the lives of people around the world, and it's also touching when it reaches over into the lives of animals. Recently I wrote about a duck named Buttercup who was born with a backwards foot. His owner 3D printed him a new webbed foot, and after an intense s ...
Breakthrough Biological Circuit Tech Can Be Wrapped Onto Anything
Pretty much every technology company is working on their flexible device these days. It's a technology form that experts say is going to replace our current one due to its ability to more fluently fit our lifestyles. Flexible designs are complex to develop, but when it comes to flexible technologies ...
Supertoy Teddy Bear Can Carry On Realistic Conversations
What would Bit Rebels be if we didn't write about the awesome and groundbreaking toys that are being developed? I woke up this morning thinking about the different toys I used to play with as a child, and I told myself that I just had to check out what toys are available today. Well, let's just say ...
Leaked iPhone 5C Packaging Adds To The Rumors Of A Low-Cost Phone
Rumors keep flooding in about Apple's low-cost iPhone. So many in fact that it's hard to keep track of them all. Just yesterday we were presented a sneak peak of the back panel of an iPhone 5C, which is said to be the name of the low-cost iPhone that Apple is supposedly working on. As we all know, a ...
Wi-Fi Enabled Tooth Sensor Knows If You Cheat On Your Diet
When you think about it, when it comes to addiction, many of our vices enter our bodies through our mouths (alcohol, food, smoking, etc.). Wouldn't it be nuts if your doctor could monitor whether or not you had a handle on your addiction by tracking data sent to him or her from a tooth sensor strate ...