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How To Trick Your Brain Into Thinking An Apple Is Really French Fries
I live in the States, which is a country where people eat a lot of food, yet many of them are unhealthy. As of last week though, we know we aren't the most french fries obsessed nation in the world. According to Huffington Post, McDonald's just launched their largest super-sized order of fries ever ...
![How To: Stay Awake When Work Deadlines Are Looming [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/how-to-stay-awake-infographic-optimized.png "How To: Stay Awake When Work Deadlines Are Looming [Infographic]")
How To: Stay Awake When Work Deadlines Are Looming [Infographic]
One of the hardest tasks to do when facing a looming deadline is keeping yourself awake in order to push in the work necessary to meet your deadlines. It's not always the easiest when you work eighteen to twenty hours a day, right? When crunch time approaches, it gets easier and easier to fall behin ...
The Star Trek Medical Tricorder Inches Closer To Becoming A Reality
If you are a trekkie, which a lot of our readers are, you probably know that in Star Trek there are three main types of tricorders. One is a standard tricorder used to scan unfamiliar places and collect data, one is an engineering tricorder used for engineering purposes on the ship, and the last one ...
![Internet Side Effects: What They Do To Our Brains [Video]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/internet-side-effects-guide-1-optimized.png "Internet Side Effects: What They Do To Our Brains [Video]")
Internet Side Effects: What They Do To Our Brains [Video]
Just a few days ago, I was checking out my Facebook news feed and came across an article shared by Scott Stratten. It was an article written by Paul Miller (published on The Verge) that dealt with the intriguing topic of unplugging from the Internet for a year. As I read through the story, I was str ...
iPhone Doctor: Your Phone Can Check Your Temperature & Call Doctor
If you are like most people I know, when you feel sick, you don't take time out of your schedule to go to the doctor unless it's serious. Most of us just keep right on working through the sickness. It's probably not the best way to stay healthy and live our lives, but at the same time, a doctor's vi ...
![How Current Self-Made Billionaire Entrepreneurs Got Rich [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/poor-to-rich-entrepreneur-infographic-optimized.jpg "How Current Self-Made Billionaire Entrepreneurs Got Rich [Infographic]")
How Current Self-Made Billionaire Entrepreneurs Got Rich [Infographic]
If you're an entrepreneur, you've probably thought about what it would be like to become a self-made billionaire. These days, millionaires are a dime a dozen, so you might as well think bigger, right? I've been an entrepreneur for over a decade. A few days ago, someone asked me when the hardest time ...
Are Google Alerts The Canary In The Big Data Mineshaft?
I remember the first time I actually got a Google Alert in my inbox. It was around 2008, and I had started my blog a while before. I signed up to get Google Alerts on my name mainly so I could see how fast Google indexed information. At the time, I noticed I got an alert within 3 hours of posting. I ...
Hold A Life-Size Model Of Your Unborn Baby With This 3D Sonogram
A sonogram (obstetric ultrasonography) allows pregnancy to become more real for the expectant parents. Its intended purpose is to inform patients and doctors about the health of the baby and mother at the beginning of prenatal care. The sonogram is also known to many people as an ultrasound, and its ...
Pebble Smartstick Is Your Marker-Sized Emergency Charger
As far as battery life on your mobile device goes, there is no getting around the fact that it will eventually run out. Until some clever innovator comes up with a way to harvest power from thin air, we will always run out of power when we least expect it. There is no shortage of solutions that will ...
3D Printed Mini Human Livers Accelerate Medical Research & Discovery
There are people who wake up each day hoping it will be the day when they get the news about a liver transplant. Many thousands of people are approved for a transplant, but they waiting for a donor. The waiting list grows longer each year. Once again, 3D printing technology can offer some assistance ...
Researchers Hope To Treat Addiction With A Virtual Reality Experience
This is a fascinating twist to the traditional virtual reality applications we are used to seeing. We know that virtual reality, if done well, will make the virtual world seem as realistic as the real world. For example, you can walk through a realistic maze that goes on forever in a virtual world, ...
Researchers Find Walking In A Forest Really Can Ease Creative Block
We all get brain fatigue, creative block, writer's block or brain fuzziness every once in a while. Whatever you want to call it, sometimes our brains get stumped for new ideas, and it doesn't seem to be able to keep up with the rest of our bodies. You've probably read posts in the past that have sug ...
3D Ultrasound Imaging Creates 3D Color Photo Of Your Unborn Baby
We all know what the standard black and white ultrasound photo looks like, and the quality is terrible. Usually nobody except the expectant parents can figure out anything from those photos. It seems like with all the modern technology we have in the world, someone would be able to take a clear, rea ...
Refurbished iPhones With Special Apps Designed To Help Senior Citizens
Earlier today, Richard wrote about a GPS cane that was designed to assist senior citizens by helping them get around in unfamiliar places. It has tons of features packed into what looks like a walking cane, and it even transmits information to doctors when necessary. I thought I'd share with you ano ...
GPS Cane Makes Growing Older A Digital Endeavor
If you worry about growing old because you think your physical and mental health might end up getting you into trouble in the real world, you should stop worrying. Technology is on the way to secure even the simplest tasks so that when we grow old, we won't have to worry about anything. The great th ...