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40 Foot Touchscreen Gallery Helps Visitors Find New Artwork
As we reported yesterday, Rio de Janeiro is the first city to implement QR codes into their sidewalk design. It's an effort to help tourists find new information about the city and its history without cluttering the city with ugly, bulky signs. It seems information is about to take over our immediat ...
Power Loader From The Movie Aliens Soon A Reality
One of the most memorable movie moments in science fiction history is when Ellen Ripley battles the mother alien in the movie Aliens. When she steps into the power loader and literally kicks the living breath out of her opponent, you just know it's going to make movie history. Throughout the years, ...
![Modern Day Experiences & How Social Media Changed It All [Video]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/modern-day-experiences-smartphone-1-optimized.jpg "Modern Day Experiences & How Social Media Changed It All [Video]")
Modern Day Experiences & How Social Media Changed It All [Video]
I read dozens of articles each week about social media, but there was one I read a few months ago that really stuck with me. I spent some time trying to find it this morning, and it's lost in the abyss of the Internet so I can't share the link unfortunately. If you think about your modern day experi ...
Japan’s Gallery For Puzzles Which Took A Computer Algorithm To Design
When you combine architecture and mathematics that enhance the visible design of a space and not just the stuff in the background, you get an explosion of creativity. Usually those kinds of spaces inspire others to explore different possibilities. It's so easy to fall into the trap of thinking offic ...
Canon D60 Camera (With Battery Grip) Created Out Of Solid Chocolate
These days, it seems like almost everything from an iPhone to a pair of high heel shoes can be created from chocolate. Whatever it is you like, you can probably find someone who makes it from chocolate. Up until today, probably the most outlandish chocolate creation I've written about was the chocol ...
Sidewalk Design To Provide QR Codes With Tourist Information
It's no joke to say QR codes have become a huge hit around the world. Pretty much every product I buy today has a QR code embedded on it. I's a great way to keep product information updated and current. So why aren't they used even more within our already jam packed technological world? The answer t ...
Picture Safe iPhone App Adds Protection To Your Sensitive Pictures
Security has become a huge concern since we started using mobile devices at an every increasing rate. The ease at which a hacker can get to your content stored on your smartphone is almost too scary to comprehend. New security solutions are unveiled each day it seems, but there are still not many th ...
![How To: Write An Email Subject Line That Gets Noticed [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/perfect-email-subject-line-infographic-optimized.jpg "How To: Write An Email Subject Line That Gets Noticed [Infographic]")
How To: Write An Email Subject Line That Gets Noticed [Infographic]
We've written about email marketing many times, and although when you think of email marketing you might think of spam, it's the most effective form of online marketing. You can read more about that at Email Marketing Design Guide For 2013. If email marketing is done right, it's very effective. Peop ...
10 Houses With Intriguing Secret Rooms & Passageways
I don't know about you, but I love houses that have secret rooms and passageways. I don't see many new houses with those, unless they are put in after the house is built, but some of the old historic homes I've seen on home tours still have them. Living in one of those houses would be like knowing a ...
Calculator iPhone App Lets You Use Your Handwriting Instead Of Typing
If you are like me, you hate hopping between folders on your iPhone just to find the right app. Even more annoying is the endeavor of having to click your way through an equation using the default calculator. It's such an unoptimized approach. I find math quite fun, but when I am slowed down by unop ...
Sunroof Digital Screens Might Soon Grace Subway Cars
As we've all expected, we will soon have digital screens pretty much everywhere. We'll have to see whether or not our public areas will look like something from the Blade Runner movie. But at the pace things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case in about 50 years from now. Our pri ...
Bubble Touch: The Smartphone With 2 Keyboards To Match Your Mood
There are probably thousands of smartphone concept designs on the Internet. It seems like everyone has an idea about what the perfect smartphone would be like. If you could design your own smartphone, what features would you make sure it had? I would want all the Star Trek technology incorporated in ...
Servo Glasses Automate The Geeky Switch To Sunglasses
As a geek, there are always solutions that are more optimized than our regular boring ways of doing things. That is especially true when it comes to technology. I mean, in a way, the computer was initially a way to help us calculate large numbers. That in itself is an optimization created by the "ge ...
The Ultimate Pool Party: Interactive Animation Made With 65,000 Balls
If you wanted to create a screen on top of the water of a swimming pool to project a light installation, and you wanted it to be an interactive animation so swimmers could really experience it, how would you do it? You could do what Red Paper Heart did and dump 65,000 ping-pong balls into the swimmi ...
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How Algorithms Change The World As We Know It [Infographic]
When you think of all the things that have impacted our lives over the years, do you ever think of all the algorithms that have been implemented around us? The word algorithm is one of those scary words that seems complicated, but it isn't. It's just the step-by-step procedure for a calculation. Alg ...