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Tame Your Phone with Google Voice
If you have not heard of the new service from Google you really need to check this out. You may remember Google acquired GrandCentral and are now rolling out the technology as their own but with lots of new features.
The basic idea of Google Voice is to have a single phone number that reaches yo ...
Get Inspired to Update Your Blog!
I see it every week, tweets from people that say things like, “Someone help me get excited about updating my blog.” Or “I guess I’ll be spending my night updating my blog.” I thought I would give you some techniques that I use to get inspired to update this blog.
Here at bitrebels, our blog is u ...
Gliding Through the Streets in a Nissan
Check out this new concept car from Nissan, the Land Glider EV. This street glider gives the driver a flying sensation with all four tires on the ground. Its a tiny compact car that rides like a plane and is able to fir into less than half a parking spot.
The wheels and fenders of the Nissan Glid ...
5 Wild Things about a Classic Childrens Story
The children's classic storybook Where the Wild Things Are is being released in theatres soon. What a timeless story of a boy who finds an imaginary world in his bedroom after being sent there without dinner. The story was one of my favorites growing up (probably because I had a vivid imagination an ...
Life explained: I lego NY
Legos were one of my favorite toys to play with as a kid. The engineering brain in me constantly wanted to test the laws of gravity, pushing the boundaries of lego's building capabilities. I still remember the day my Mother sold our lego chest. I was 15 and hid my tears as a young mother carried off ...
A Hooligan Turned Hero
We all read the stories about drunk drivers. They make us hug our children and cringe.
This story has a refreshing twist to that usual reaction. It is a drunk driving story with a happy ending.
David Heim drove drunk 14 years ago and got into a serious accident. He didn’t hurt anyone else, ...
How to Make a Baby!
Here is an interesting way to make a baby! Found this interesting video of a couple and how they made a baby. The video was made using a technique called "pixilation", which is a fancy term for stop-motion animation done with real people instead of puppets.
Here are notes from Cassidy Curtis a ...
Where do iPods come from?
Ever wonder where something like your iPod, television, or favorite juice mixer was made? I know the brains over at MIT's Media Lab do - they have recently launched a new online tool to help answer those questions.
SourceMap is s a platform for researching and sharing the supply chains behind com ...
Everything you know about Web Design is WRONG!
Have you been working as a freelancer or otherwise in the web design industry for several years? Have you learned the trade by looking at what everyone else does? Well, as Dan Willis says in this quite controversial speech at the 2009 SXSWi event -"Everything you know about web design is wrong!". Wh ...
Give Your Photos a Punch!
Here is a great way to give your photos a Punch, literally! The PUNCH takes regular digital images but allows its users to physically punch a rasterized image of their photo. The punched image gives information which can connect its users to the digital gallery.
This was designed by Matty Martin ...
Want to Navigate the Streets With Ease?
If you love exploring cities and hate getting lost, you would usually carry a map with you right?! Here is a very cool idea. Its called a Maptor. Its a portable map and projector in one. Now you can roam the streets with ease. Just point that gadget and viola you have a map where you can navigate ...
Life is a Game of Inches
In one of the most inspirational videos of all time, Al Pacino says something very profound. He says, “Life is a game of inches.” This is true. Every step we take will determine the next. Every small decision will affect the big decisions. Every moment is only here once, and it is up to us to m ...
Plants vs Zombies plus Zombatar – Halloween Avatar on Twitter
One thing I love to do is play casual games. My brother knows this and asked me to try out a game that they are currently going nuts over. It's called Plants Vs Zombies. A mob of zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of zombie-zapping plants. Think fast and p ...
ABC3D | Next Gen Learning Pop-Up Book
Do you remember the birthday cards you sometimes got when you were a child. Those pop-up cards that if they were really nice had those "Happy Birthday" tunes played in a really annoying kind of sound? Well, I got my share of those and really, for a while just hated them. I did until I got just a lit ...
Stop Fast-Forwarding!
I was recently watching Heroes on NBC (one of my favorite prime-time adventures) when suddenly I shouted to my wife (who controls the remote) "stop fast forwarding!"
In my house we DVR everything. The time when most families are comfortable on the couch watching prime-time TV is usually the same ...