A Mini Cooper Turned Into A Badass Gaming Chair
Playing games has become an art form, and we're constantly trying to break the boundaries of the technology at hand. We're constantly trying to come up with new concepts that will astound the buyers and ultimately put the game on the top of the charts. Doing that doesn't always involve just coming ...
How Big Is Your Byte: Twitter, Facebook And More In Bytes
As our world gets more and more complex, we tend to transfer that to the virtual world of ones and zeros. As we clear up more space in the real world, the complexity of the things we virtualize becomes ever greater in size. A great example of this are all the photos that millions of us take each a ...
For Your Next Tweet Up: Twitter Inspired Beer Glasses
We have featured a lot of Twitter inspired designs, and one thing I'm noticing as time goes on is that they are getting more and more creative. It's a really neat progression to watch. It seems artists and designers are growing as fast as the site itself.
For example, it used to be that most Tw ...
Design: The Drippy Hypnotic Effects of Tall Painting
There are so many styles of painting that are popular now. We've written dozens of articles about different techniques; however, this is one I haven't seen before. When I watch this, it kinda puts me in a trance. When you think about it, it seems like such an obvious thing to try with paint.
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Mind Twisting Art: Cartoons Mixed Into Classic Paintings
There's a cartoon world, and there's a real world. Cartoons are supposed to stay in the cartoon world, don't you think? Whenever I see them branch out into the real world, it kinda freaks me out, like my brain can't handle it or something.
When Richard wrote about these Disney characters portra ...
Woman Attacks Over Missing Girl Scout Cookies
This is so funny to me because I love Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies and if mine came up missing, I might attack someone too. I mean, you just don't mess with a person's Thin Mints. She should have known better. Ok, maybe not, but I still can't stop laughing over this story.
Last Monday night a ...
Geek Inspired Design: Cozy Coffee Cup Cuteness
I love hot coffee and tea. I also love being cozy. So when I found this little cup sleeve design called a "Cup Cozie," I knew I had to write about it. This is the perfect little accessory for any geek like me who loves her daily afternoon trip to Starbucks.
Each one of these insulators is hand ...
The Original Coca-Cola Recipe Revealed
There is a feud going on right now that not very many people know about, and it's centered around the city I live in, Atlanta. This American Life claims to have found the original recipe for Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola says that the recipe is still safe and sound right here in Atlanta in a bank vault whe ...
Food Play: An Epic Playable Angry Birds Birthday Cake
How do you impress your kids these days? I mean, not that I am much for spoiling just for the heck of it, but in a day and age when kids pretty much have everything they wish for, what can you do to make their one day of the year so much more special than it already is? Well, it turns out there is ...
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How Star Wars Changed The World [Infographic]
Many times we have mentioned here on Bit Rebels how Star Wars has changed the world. There are more gizmos and gadgets then we really care to acknowledge that have come from those movies, and it's not about to stop anytime soon. We are inspired about a future full of robots, droids and gadgets tha ...
24 Images Of The Year 2000 As Imagined In 1910
It's easy to underestimate the future if you know what I mean. It will come in all the forms and shapes that you haven't even imagined yet. If someone were to say to me that they knew what the future would look like, I would immediately be concerned about that person's well being. And, since the ...
The Magic Of Viral Videos & A Food Court Disaster
It's so funny to me how people always want to know the step-by-step plan for making a video go viral. It's like they think a few people out there are keeping this big secret about it, and they will do anything to find out what it is.
What some people don't realize is that you cannot force a vide ...
Whoa! Transformers Inspired Steel Megatron Tank Design
What would you do if you were bored and had 5.51 tons of steel lying around? Hmm... you could always do what this Chinese man did and build a super duper kick ass mind blowing Megatron tank with it. The person who created this handcrafted beauty calls himself Steel Legend. I'm dying to know exact ...
Kinect SwimBrowser: Surf The Internet Doing The Breast Stroke
We all know what great exercise swimming is. When I first read about this, I thought, "Great! Now we can swim, get exercise and surf the web all at the same time." That's true if you can hack your Kinect the way David Stolarsky did.
For the 2011 PrimeSense/OpenNI Developer Challenge, he created ...
8 Ways Twitter Can Make You A Better Person
I enjoy being on Twitter. I am on that site all the time. I started using Twitter in 2008, and I have seen firsthand its tremendous growth. I remember the days when there were very few of us who tweeted 24/7. We interacted with our Twitter friends all the way up until we fell asleep at night, an ...