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High Tech Building Blocks Kids Control With Their Smartphones
You may have heard of ATOMS Express Toys by now since they had explosively successful results on Kickstarter earlier this month, but if you haven't, you're in for a treat. It's not often we see a company that could potentially inspire and change how kids interact and play with toys for years to come ...
Gymnasium Floor Changes For Each Sport With A Touchscreen
This futuristic-looking gymnasium floor isn't a concept design or something to look forward to in the future, it's already being used. This is definitely one of the coolest technologies I've seen all week. As I'm sure you know, on a traditional gymnasium floor, sometimes the lines can get confusing. ...
Flexible OLED Screen From Futuba Might Impress Us More Than Samsung’s
You might remember Samsung's reveal of their flexible OLED screen gadget, Yuom, from about a week ago. It was at an event during CES 2013, which impressed a lot of people. The screen, which could very well become the center point of future smartphones, was considered one of the highlights of CES 201 ...
Sneaker Speakers May Reinvent The Way We Play Music Outdoors
How do you play music in public? Do you play it individually on your smartphone or do you bring an external speaker to let everyone take part in your awesome taste? There are plenty of devices you can use to play music. There's everything from external and mobile speakers to headphones and earphones ...
Touchscreen Desk Is Your Ultimate Interactive Office Solution
How would you envision your ultimate office device? Would it be a gadget or an entire desk solution? I guess it depends on what your needs are. I'm pretty sure that fax machines, bulky screens, telephones and pretty much everything considered '90s technology would be gone. Steve Jobs once said that ...
Flexible Smartphone Batteries To Fit In Flexible Smartphones
As we all know, one of the biggest changes we will probably see this year when it comes to smartphones is the introduction of flexible smartphones. Ever since Samsung's impressive presentation at CES 2013, it seems they've been in the news nonstop. I can't imagine what it would be like to have a sma ...
Pentode Steampunk 16GB USB Flash Drive Is Intriguingly Tasteful
Many times when I come across a flash drive, it isn't very impressive. In order for a USB flash drive to make sense, it has to either have a storage space that is out of the ordinary or a design that captures your attention. Usually USB flash drives don't have either one of these. When I do happen t ...
World’s Fastest Cockroach Robot Was Designed To Save Lives
The American cockroach is one of the fastest insects in the world (and the nastiest). People here spend a lot of money to keep those bugs out of their homes. Here in the south where I live, they can even fly. Our cockroaches are able to maintain their claim to fame when it comes to speed because the ...
Head-Mounted Smartphone Project Includes Virtual Reality Calls
Everyone is talking about the next big thing when it comes to smartphones. There are a lot of rumors about what companies are about to release, and there are a lot of imaginary smartphones being invented. There's everything from flexible phones to head-mounted gadgets. Mockups have become one of the ...
Speaker Backpack Allows You To Take The Party With You
Quirky products always spawn a lot of interest. It doesn't really matter if they are real or not. The really quirky ones can go viral within a few minutes if they hit the right audience. We have seen that a lot here at Bit Rebels. It's not hard to spot them. They are the things that catch your atten ...
Snap-On Case For iPhone Adds Full Camera Controls & Feel
Let's break it down. The smartphone camera revolution has made us snap happy beyond our wildest dreams. I don't think anyone could have imagined the impact of smartphone photography about a decade or so ago. We're taking an insane amount of pictures these days and most of them end up on the Internet ...
Android Driven Oven Lets You Control It From Your Smartphone
As we have concluded before, smartphones will soon control pretty much all of our everyday gadgets. Everything will get its controls built into our smartphones. It doesn't matter if it is an iPhone or an Android driven phone, they all have one thing in common, to control things. Practically every ne ...
Is This How The iPhone 5S & iPhone Mini Might Look?
The rumor mills are in full motion once again. There's no doubt Apple will announce something this year, but will it be the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 or perhaps the iPhone Mini? It's impossible to say really. People are speculating about it, and with that comes rumors - Rumors that grow strong when amplif ...
New Graph Search Feature Makes Facebook Your Ultimate Rolodex
Facebook recently called for a press conference. A lot of experts debated about whether or not Facebook might launch a new smartphone. Let's just say there were a whole lot of rumors floating around. I have to say, the most interesting thing to me was that they actually cared to hold an event at all ...
DIY Smartphone Hologram Display Puts A Twist On Reality
I don't know what it is, but there is something about holograms that keeps us mesmerized. The ability to manifest something real in a fake way is something that we are apparently very keen on accomplishing. As you might have seen already in my earlier realistic hologram article today, there has been ...