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The Windows 8 Test Drive: Navigating Through All The Hype
I am typically in the habit of upgrading my PCs to the latest versions of the operating system as long as the hardware is capable. With the release of Windows 8 last week, I was keen to try it out, at least as an upgrade to my Windows 7 Parallels Virtual Machine that I have running on my MacBook Pro ...
Modular Keyboard Will Have You Arrange Your Keys As You See Fit
There are a lot of keyboards on the market for anyone who is looking to upgrade to a more advanced or geeky one. Lately there has been a lot of innovation when it comes to keyboards. The most famous one might just be the Optimus OLED keyboard designed and made available by Art Lebedev Studio. It's a ...
Imagine A Future Where We’ll Be Able To Download Memories
It sounds like the stuff of science-fiction and geek ideology, but the ability to download memories may be a full blown reality for the future generations of planet Earth. Science (well, Neuroscience, Neuroengineering, and Optogenetics to be exact) is getting closer and closer to creating a solution ...
Casino Technology: How They Improve Their Odds With Technology
Have you ever stopped to think that casino technology might be improving their odds? Avid punters keen to maximize their winnings at gambling always try to develop ingenious systems for beating the house at its own game. Anything from card counting at Black Jack to shoe computers and laser beams tim ...
Horrify Children With The Headless Teddy Bear USB Drive
As a child, I always loved teddy bears. I had an extensive collection of teddy bears in a wide range of colors and sizes. Some of my teddy bears were elaborate collector's items like my Shakespearean Panda Build-A-Bear, whereas others were more simple teddy bears I won from those crane machines. I l ...
![The Most Common Phobias In Creative People [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/phobias-of-creative-people-infographic-optimized.jpg "The Most Common Phobias In Creative People [Infographic]")
The Most Common Phobias In Creative People [Infographic]
Creative people who have structured their lives so they can do what they love seem to live lives of dichotomy. On one hand, they get to spend their days in their own creative world where they take all the ideas in their brains and turn them into realities for clients and for themselves. But on the o ...
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Top 10 Companies Started In A Garage [Infographic]
Some of the world's largest companies were created as a solution to a personal problem. Others were started just because the idea seemed to be too good to just dismiss. But it's when a company was started in a garage and becomes globally successful that we start to be really impressed. The fact that ...
Netgear Wi-Fi Extender Review: Ease, Simplicity & Transparency
There has been a certain level of complexity associated with wireless-enabled products, which has not only frustrated me both as an engineer and end-user, but equally has undoubtedly frustrated the wider community of consumers who have embraced the technology. As a previous software engineer, develo ...
Never Before Seen Images Of Google’s Data Centers
Kids today are so used to the Internet that I'm sure some of them think it lives in their computer. The intricacies of the Internet itself are far more complex than they were 10 years ago. Today we have servers that are supposed to handle ever faster Internet connections, and of course all the peopl ...
MyFitnessPal App: Helps Reduce Sugar & Calories In Your Diet
I am reminded that real bears live wet and wild on sugar after seeing this animation of bears drinking too much soda. I am also reminded of the hidden empty calories within some of our foods. I am working on eating clean and upping the ante on my fitness game. While my diet wasn’t all that bad (so I ...
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88 Best iOS Apps For Mobile Learning [Infographic]
Do you ever stop to think about how you gathered information before the Internet? If you needed to find an answer about anything, what did you do to find it? I don't really remember, but I think we called people on the phone, asked our parents or looked it up in an encyclopedia. No wonder learning w ...
A World Of Miniature People Living On Green Fingernails
Miniature art and art with miniature people has gotten so popular over the past few years. As with everything, some people take it to the ultimate extreme. I remember a few years ago I wrote about a guy who molds elaborate scenes on top of a pin using an eyelash as his tool and a magnifying glass. H ...
Upcycled CD Project Creates Enormous Water Lilies
We often find ourselves buying our music from iTunes or any of the other million music stores available today. Gone are the days when we buy our music from a music store on the street corner. We also don't get to check out the booklet that came with our newly purchased CDs. Remember those? Even thou ...
Funny Celebrity Fingerprint Portraits Display Personalities
If you are a fan of a crime forensic series on TV, you know that in almost every episode they pull fingerprints off of pretty much everything, process them through some unbelievably exaggerated computer interface, and get a hit in less than a few minutes, if even that. Sure, it's television, and we ...
Music Hat Makes Winter Exercising A Cozy Endeavor
We have written about the health risks of sitting in front of the computer too long here at Bit Rebels a few times now. There are some serious health effects that are connected to sitting, and according to the research, our bodies take a good beating when we don't do anything to exercise them. For u ...