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Is there really a way to increase the number of retweets you receive? There certainly is! It just might not be the insane increase you want. Twitter is a complex ecosystem, and if you don't know what you are doing, you can easily waste days without even receiving a single retweet from your following ...

Touchscreen Desk Already Exists & Comes With A $7,000 Price Tag

There was an insanely positive response to my touchscreen desk article yesterday. It seems people really like the concept of having their very own hub from where they can do everything. The concept as a whole is of course not new in any way, but it's the realization itself that might be a little tri ...

High Tech Building Blocks Kids Control With Their Smartphones

You may have heard of ATOMS Express Toys by now since they had explosively successful results on Kickstarter earlier this month, but if you haven't, you're in for a treat. It's not often we see a company that could potentially inspire and change how kids interact and play with toys for years to come ...

Gymnasium Floor Changes For Each Sport With A Touchscreen

This futuristic-looking gymnasium floor isn't a concept design or something to look forward to in the future, it's already being used. This is definitely one of the coolest technologies I've seen all week. As I'm sure you know, on a traditional gymnasium floor, sometimes the lines can get confusing. ...

How Much Money Would It Cost For You To Live On Mars? [Infographic]

People have always been fascinated by the thought of traveling to Mars. Whenever I think about what it would be like to live on Mars, I am reminded of the original 1990 movie Total Recall. Lately though, it seems like people are even more interested in learning about the planet that some people will ...

Flexible Smartphone Batteries To Fit In Flexible Smartphones

As we all know, one of the biggest changes we will probably see this year when it comes to smartphones is the introduction of flexible smartphones. Ever since Samsung's impressive presentation at CES 2013, it seems they've been in the news nonstop. I can't imagine what it would be like to have a sma ...

Head-Mounted Smartphone Project Includes Virtual Reality Calls

Everyone is talking about the next big thing when it comes to smartphones. There are a lot of rumors about what companies are about to release, and there are a lot of imaginary smartphones being invented. There's everything from flexible phones to head-mounted gadgets. Mockups have become one of the ...

DIY Star Wars Lightsaber Party Invitations

One of the best parts of writing here at Bit Rebels is that we never have to grow up. We get to write about Star Wars, LEGO, and the superheroes and video games we grew up with, and it just never ends. I don't think of those things as being associated with kids, or maybe we're just all a bunch of bi ...

Speaker Backpack Allows You To Take The Party With You

Quirky products always spawn a lot of interest. It doesn't really matter if they are real or not. The really quirky ones can go viral within a few minutes if they hit the right audience. We have seen that a lot here at Bit Rebels. It's not hard to spot them. They are the things that catch your atten ...

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If Jesus Had An iPhone & Joined Twitter [Comic]

I write a lot about how much technology has changed our lives, and how it's embedded into almost everything we do. One thing I think about but haven't written about before is how technology could have changed history one hundred or two hundred years ago. Or, how about if they had our technology thou ...

Android Driven Oven Lets You Control It From Your Smartphone

As we have concluded before, smartphones will soon control pretty much all of our everyday gadgets. Everything will get its controls built into our smartphones. It doesn't matter if it is an iPhone or an Android driven phone, they all have one thing in common, to control things. Practically every ne ...

How To: Fold A Piece Of Paper So It Reaches The Moon

As a geek, you are most likely aware that there is a common misconception about how many times a piece of paper can be folded in half. Experts used to say that a paper could not be folded in half more than 7 times. Go ahead and try it. It's bizarre. Then MythBusters came along and busted that myth. ...

Immortalize Your Youth With A LEGO Self-Portrait & Become A Minifig

Erin Ryan

If you grew up playing with LEGO, you know how fantastic those building blocks and minifigs are to play with. Whether you are still a LEGO-loving child at heart or have a child who now loves it as much as you did, you can immortalize your youth with a self-portrait of you as a minifig. LEGO building ...

Celebrity Geeks You Should Know About [Infographic]