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Kinect Hack: Minority Report User Interface Duplicated!
Not too long ago, it was considered the holy grail to create an exact replica of the movie Minority Report's awesome user interface. Until the Kinect came along, there really hasn't been any technology for programmers and hackers to play with to recreate the hand gesture driven technology. But tha ...
Swedish Cosplay Girl Takes Metroid’s Samus Beyond Cool!
I remember when I bought my first Nintendo NES base station. I was overjoyed by being able to play the games that today have become iconic and legendary. Back then there were not as many cosplay communities as there are now. The coolest thing you could find were some homemade fan magazines, and o ...
Help The Homeless: 10 Ways That Don’t Cost Money!
Earlier this week, I coordinated a luncheon to serve the homeless men and women in Atlanta. Because working with the homeless is a cause that is important to me, I occasionally send tweets about it. I knew we were going to have a lot of hungry people show up for lunch, but I didn't know how we were ...
The Biggest Fattest Monkey You’ve Ever Seen!
What would you do if you had several thousand extra pairs of flip-flops lying around? You'd make a big 'ol fat monkey sculpture with them, right? Look closely at the pictures below. Now do you see what I mean?
Who the heck thinks of this stuff anyway? Well, in this case, it was an artist name ...
Beautify The World: Rooftop Gardens On City Buses
It's such a wonderful feeling to know that we can do something to make the world a better place. As Richard and I have talked about before, many people think the only way to do that is to do something big, profound and time consuming. However, that's not the case. Sometimes the simplest little th ...
Improve The Relationship Between You & Your Plants
Does music help your plants grow faster? It's the age-old question. Many farmers claim that music does have an effect on the growth of their plants. Other people think it's a ridiculous idea to think that music has any effect on plants.
After trying to find a definitive answer about this onlin ...
Photography: Do You Have Big Enough Hands For This Camera?
It's not every day that someone decides something is too small, and they want to make it bigger, especially a lot bigger. I mean, today when everything is getting smaller, it's kind of rebelish to go against the trend and bring on the something that people have never even seen. We all love digital ...
iPads To Replace Textbooks In Some Schools!
If you are a parent like me, you know that sooner or later you will have an "I remember when..." story to tell your child. Of course, my mother's story went something like, "I remember walking for two miles in the snow just to get to the bus stop." Okay Mom, I get it that I had it easier growing u ...
Geeky Gear: 7 Back To School Must Haves!
When I was a child, I loved the first day of school. Even if i cried my eyes out because I did not want my mom to leave me there, I was still happy because I knew I would get new books and back to school stuff. My favorites were always my brand new 64 jumbo Crayolas, Hello Kitty bag, pencil box an ...
17 Year Old Builds Remote Controlled Lawn Mower
Do you remember when you were 17 years old, and you had a bundle of ideas locked up inside your head? All you could think about was whether or not someone else would actually create them, but you never really put the work into it to create them yourself. Well, that's what sets some of us apart fro ...
Tweet Cred: How To Gain Respect On Twitter
Respect is one of those things that everyone wants, but few people get, especially in social media. On Twitter, it can be overwhelming at times to try and stand out in the crowd of never ending tweets.
I opened my Twitter account in March of 2009. I have sent over 35,000 tweets since then, and ...
10 Life Lessons That We Should Try To Remember!
I am very lucky to have had a very wise man for a dad. I never really understood what he was trying to convey to us when we were children, but now as an adult, I have realized the life lessons that he wanted to impart on us. They are sort of like rules to live by. With life being so fast paced no ...
The Best Way To Quit A Job Ever!
*By now, we all know this was a hoax, but it's still funny as hell! Love it!* I cannot stop laughing over this. I can soooo relate to this girl. When I was attending University, I didn't want to get a student loan because I don't like owing people money. So, instead, I worked three jobs at the sam ...
Graffiti Art Trend – Spider Web Tagging
We've written dozens of articles on Bit Rebels about graffiti art, but I've never seen anything like this before.
Imagine you've got your can of paint in your hand. You head outside feeling creative and ready to design some colorful graffiti art. Would you ever think to color the spider webs in ...
Knitted Chicken and Steak – Craft Inspiration
What can rival the kind of creative insanity (or genius) required to embroider bread? Knitting slabs of meat and wrapping them up like the butcher, of course!
Pictured below are design student Stephanie Casper's knitted creations including a T-bone steak, a rotisserie chicken, a ham, some sausag ...