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It's easy to understand just why technology companies are starting to roll out their ideas about where technology is heading in the near future. They want to secure their own place on the map, and somewhat try to make people follow their developing line of ideas so they can get the most customers po ...

Lifestyle

How To: Make An Earthquake Kit

Misty Belardo

Have you ever had the chance to experience a 7.8 magnitude earthquake? I have and believe me, it is really scary. Japan was rocked with an 8.9 magnitude earthquake, and a lot of people lost their lives. The ones that survived now have to rebuild their homes and their lives. The earthquake that I exp ...

Social Media

The Twitter HTTPS Setting In Plain English

We've all seen the tweets over the past few days about the new "HTTPS Only" checkbox in our settings menu in Twitter, but a lot of people still don't understand what that box means and why it's there. Bottom line, I think everyone should go in and check that box, and this is why. One of the most ...

Technology: Control Your Computer With Your Mind

Star Trek, here we come! Now you can control your computer with your mind. This isn't a future technology; it's here now. EPOC recently released a brain-reading headset that, when combined with the EmoLens app, can detect your emotions; thus controling your computer. Right now, the primary applic ...

Social Media

Why Your Business Needs A Website To Progress [Infographic]

Do you remember when someone first told you that you could go onto their website for more information? I mean the very first time anyone told you that. Me neither, and it seems it was a million years ago that someone said that. The fact is that it wasn't too long ago that almost no businesses even h ...

The Costs Associated With Buying New Technology

After having a few generations of Android phones and pushing their geeky capabilities as far as I could, I bought a Verizon iPhone 4 the day they were released. They went on sale at 3:00am, and mine was ordered by 3:05. Almost immediately after I received it, I realized how much I loved it and start ...

Geek

Muhammad Ali Portrait Created Using 1,500 Punching Bags

The geek community seems to be on fire these days. There is no idea out there that is too far-fetched or too creative to be realized, especially when it comes to famous people's portraits. The latest in a row of bizarre creations was a Mona Lisa replication using over 100,000 carats of gem stones. T ...

Design

Art: Your Favorite Movies Compressed Into Barcodes

Is it just me or is data compression becoming a hot topic? Just the other day, Richard wrote an article about this topic called The Importance Of Internet Real-Time Compression. Today I would like to take a look at data compression again, but from a different perspective. What about compressing d ...

Entertainment

Charlie Sheen’s Winning Recipes: It’s Complicated

Ahh... Charlie Sheen. He has become the person we love to rag on for the moment. And to think for all these years I didn't know he was the wacko one. Sorry Denise, now I understand that it really was just complicated. You gotta give the guy credit though. He's managed to create his own brand of c ...

iPad 2 vs. The Competition: Specs Compared [Infographic]

So the time has finally come. The iPad 2 will certainly be a hot product in the tablet market. Of course, the competitors are already making all kinds of accusations about them being the first on the market with certain features and so forth. But, as usual, it boils down to the hard-edged truth: Pu ...

Geek

Protect Your Password With Help From A Geeky Stripper

As we all know, computer hackers are getting better at what they do each day, thus becoming a daily annoyance that many of us think about. Just this past week, the hacker group Anonymous was all over the news again, freaking everyone out with their coy calculated cyber threats and mind-blowing skil ...

Digit Mp3: Probably The Sexiest Mp3 Player In The World

It's hard to compete with the iPod and the Zune when it comes to Mp3 players. Many have tried and failed, and it seems sometimes like we're going to be stuck with these two until we finally run out of uses for an mp3 player. After all, we can listen to songs on our cell phones these days, and with t ...

Social Media

How To: Be Awesome On Twitter

I've written 1,200 articles here on Bit Rebels, and many of them are about Twitter. It's a topic that never gets old to me. When I started on Twitter back in 2009, there weren't very many articles that explained the whole Twitter dynamic. Those of us who were on the site regularly just had to fig ...