Core coverage of emerging technologies, hardware, software, AI, security, and innovations shaping the future of the digital world.
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 ...
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The Difference Between Email Now & 10 Years Ago [Image]
As technology moves forward at an ever faster pace, we are left with memories of how it used to be. Sometimes it can be hard to keep up with all the new things that are being released and our thoughts for many will linger back to the old days when gadgets and devices were much simpler. When the Inte ...
Olly & Molly Twitter Bots Will Reward Retweets With Smell & Candy
Each retweet is always special in a way. It all depends on who retweets you, what they retweet, and also of course at what time it is retweeted. What we all should remember though is that Twitter is not a competition. Sure, if you have a lot of followers, you will see a greater deal of interaction b ...
Cyborg Generation: It’s Not Just Siri, Prepare To Be Assimilated
I love Star Trek. I remember watching the original TV series as a kid. In Star Trek, there was a race of cybernetic organisms that would abduct people and enforce cybernetic implants on them in order to achieve perfection. I remember thinking back then how terrible that would be if it happened in re ...
LikeBelt: The Obscene Way To Like On Facebook
It has more or less become a culture or even a lifestyle to figure out how to get the most "Likes" on Facebook. There are countless articles out there that describe a multitude of different approaches to get the best results out of your campaign. What you do, and how you do it, is of course the key ...
BungeeAir Can Keep You From Being a Loser
How many times have you walked into your home, set down your keys and then hours later couldn’t remember where you put them? Come on…we’ve all done that.
Or think about the number of times you’ve left your house with your cell phone on the kitchen table or in your home office. Again…guilty as cha ...
Power In Your Palm: The Computing Power In Today’s Smartphones
This past weekend I was browsing a few timelines on Twitter, and I came across this tweet by @A4XRBJ1 that said "Your mobile phone has more computing power than all of NASA in 1969. NASA launched a man to the moon. We launch a bird into pigs." I thought that this was simply hilarious!
Then I star ...