Science: Why Are We Ticklish & What Does It Mean?
Before I get into the science of tickling, I wanted to share with you that I learned this week that it is impossible to tickle yourself. Did you know that? About the closest you can get to tickling yourself is tickling the roof of your mouth with your tongue, but that doesn't really count, does it?
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Technology, Art & Fashion Collide: LED Eyelashes
I was sitting here wondering why I'm just now finding out about these insane little LED eyelashes when they've been out for a few years, but then I figured it out. It's because this is another one of those Japanese inventions that never quite made it over here to the States... yet.
You understand ...
The Fun Geek Girl Way To Monitor Your Heartbeat
In previous articles, I've claimed to have found the geekiest girl jewelry out there, but I take it all back. I think I've found something to top every other necklace, ring and bracelet I've written about before. The only thing I've seen that touches this is the interactive Bluetooth Phone Ring th ...
Which Gaming Console Is The Most Energy Efficient?
The Electric Power Research Institute Inc. (EPRI), a nonprofit organization that conducts research and development related to the use of electricity, recently did a study to determine which gaming console is the most energy efficient between the Sony Playstation 3, the Microsoft Xbox 360 and the Nin ...
The Cutest Design of the Day: Fortune Cookie Baby Booties
I don't normally write about anything to do with babies. I'm beyond the baby stage in my life (thank goodness). However, this little design is sooo precious, I just had to write about it.
Almost everyone I know loves fortune cookies. I've been eating them since I was a little kid, and even ...
The Battlestar Galactica Toilet Paper Holder
If you are a geek, and if you have any sense of interior design at all, then you spend some time making sure that your surroundings match your personality. It's a lot of fun creating an inspiring geeky environment to live and work in, but it can also be draining since sometimes it's hard to find ju ...
The World’s Fastest Beer Dispensing Keg
I had a full academic scholarship which paid for my first two years at University, but after that, I was on my own. I managed to graduate without any student loan debt, but I worked hard to pay that tuition bill every semester. I did anything I had to do, and as a result, I was serving beer in the ...
Become a Crime Scene Investigator on Facebook!
If you are tired of planting trees and vegetables (Farmville), baking (Baking Life) and Interior design (YoVille) on Facebook, then you might enjoy playing a crime scene investigator. The game is called CSI: Crime City! It's based on the popular made for TV series CSI. I love watching that series ...
The Woman Born With Three Mouths
We all work so hard these days. Sometimes we publish articles on Bit Rebels to do nothing more than give you a break from your daily grind and provide you with something artistic, creative and interesting to look at for five minutes. We all know that a well-spent five minutes can refresh your brai ...
Recycle Those License Plates Into Retro Bowls!
Recycling is important nowadays and people are very conscious of how they dispose of their unwanted belongings. This is, of course, thanks to the many blogs and write ups that educate people about the importance of how their daily actions affect the environment. At a conference that I was fortunat ...
Genius Digitally Exploding High Five Glove!
What else could you be doing at a company when your main objective is to find the coolest and most geeky news other than going around doing High Fives? Ok, quite a lot actually. But the '90s were full of geeks and jocks trying to act cool by doing high fives as soon as they thought they had done so ...
TRON Is Almost Better When Created In LEGO!
With Disney reaping yet another success with the TRON movie, I keep wondering if they will come out with another one. Sometimes movie companies will have a third movie in backup if the first two were hits at the box office. The first movie became a legend in its own name, and since then the concep ...
The TRON Light Cycle Re-Imagined!
With the TRON movie now released, nerds, geeks and pretty much everyone else are flooding to the cinemas to check out this technology adventure started sometime back in the '80s. Since I haven't seen the movie myself yet, I can't tell if it is a masterpiece or a dud, but what I know is that it is s ...
Virtuo: The Digital Painting Tool That Will Free Your Creativity
As a digital artist, I am constantly looking for new ways to create graphical user interfaces that will possibly keep the user satisfied both visually as well as practically. However, sometimes the technology puts up limits for the freedom of creativity that leads to frustration and time being spen ...
Double Phone: The Cell Phone That Never Runs Out Of Battery!
If we all had a say in the creation of a new cell phone, I am sure that the list would be infinitely long with features ranging from both touch screen and qwerty keyboard to 3D high definition cameras. As said, the list could run on forever, but there are some features that I think everyone could ac ...