Tag: body
The High Tech Tattoo-Like Patch That Can Check Your Body Temperature
When I was a kid, I used to hate having my temperature taken. I would always gag when my mother stuck the thermometer under my tongue. Babies have it even worse since they get the thermometer stuck up their...you know. It seems like in the technology filled world we live in, someone would have come ...
Transmit Sound Through Your Body And Turn Your Finger Into A Speaker
How would you like to hold your finger up to your friend's ear so he or she could hear something? You would be using your finger as a speaker. You could get rid of those pesky earbuds and use a fingerbud...or something like that. It is possible to transmit sound through your body like that. Disney R ...
Acupressure 101: You Can Relieve Your Stress Without Leaving Your Desk
Almost everybody I know experiences stress at work. It's the new norm, or at least that's true amongst high achievers and A-type personalities. There are different kinds of work stress. There is the type that comes from having a mean boss, the type that comes from an intense work environment, and th ...
Future Camera Lenses Might Need Your Smartphone Body To Power Them
Most professional photographers are used to their powerful DSLR cameras. In the near future, that could all come to change drastically. The concept of a smartphone powering a lens is not new, but the development is progressing extremely fast. Soon our smartphones might become the camera houses that ...
10 Odd Insured Celebrity Body Parts (Including Legs Worth A Billion)
Celebrities live very different lives than the rest of us, and that goes far beyond the big houses and fancy clothes. It also includes taking insurance out on their moneymaking body parts. Celebrity body part insurance, or in this case, extreme celebrity body part insurance, is more common than you ...
The Sweat Machine Turns Your Sweat Into Clean Drinking Water
Although you may be able to walk to your kitchen sink at any time to get a glass of water, or you can buy it at the corner store, there are still 780 million people in the world who don't have access to clean drinking water. It's an ongoing devastating problem, and I'm always happy to write about it ...
How To Get All Your Exercise In Only 3 Minutes A Week
Think of the amount of time you will save if your weekly exercise routine could be condensed down to 3 minutes a week. Sound ridiculous? Apparently not according to Dr Michael Mosley who produced the documentary for BBC2, “Horizon: The Truth About Exercise.” A few relatively short bursts of intense ...
3D Printing Used To Redesign A Barbie Doll As A Real 19-Year-Old Girl
How old do you think Barbie is? I don't mean how many years has she existed. I mean how old is she? She's a 19-year-old girl or close to it, right? Everyone knows that a Barbie doll doesn't look like a real person, but what you might not know is that in order for her proportions to be real; she woul ...
![A Typical Barbie Body vs. A Typical Real Woman Body [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/barbie-body-vs-real-life-optimized.jpg "A Typical Barbie Body vs. A Typical Real Woman Body [Infographic]")
A Typical Barbie Body vs. A Typical Real Woman Body [Infographic]
I've written many articles over the years about Barbie's body, and how it warps the self-image of young girls around the world. Now that I'm getting older (and hopefully more mature), my opinion about it is changing. I don't want a Barbie body anymore. I'm happy with how my own body looks, and I don ...
![6 Brain Hacks To Motivate You Into Tackling Your To-Do List [Chart]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/brain-hacks-motivate-you-chart-optimized.jpg "6 Brain Hacks To Motivate You Into Tackling Your To-Do List [Chart]")
6 Brain Hacks To Motivate You Into Tackling Your To-Do List [Chart]
You might be sitting at work right now, surfing the Internet, watching YouTube videos and dreading your massive to-do list. If you hold out long enough, it will be time for a lunch break. And if you can keep from going crazy from boredom, you might even be able to make it through to the end of the d ...
AdMobilize Earns You Extra Cash If You’ll Be A Human Ad Billboard
2013 could become the year of the big choices. Online advertising and advertising in general are moving in several different directions, and no one really knows what will become the winning solution. Advertising has always been a tricky business. Too much and people will get tired of it. Too little ...
Wearable Tech Spawns Touchscreen Shirt For Ultimate Mobility
We have all heard about wearable tech, and how it is getting ever more popular. Everything from wristbands to backpacks have some kind of technology incorporated into them, but that's not where it ends. In the future, technology will be injected into the very fiber of everything we wear, at least if ...
12 Human Hand & Body Gestures Invented By Technology
If you are a regular reader of our articles here on Bit Rebels, you are probably a technology lover. We write about new technologies and futuristic gadgets all the time, but this article is about a different side to that. We all know that technology enhances our everyday lives on a daily basis, but ...
Weight Loss Breathalyzer Reports Your Metabolism On Your Smartphone
There are tons of weight loss apps and gadgets out there to help us manage our weight, but as of now, there hasn't been a device that can track your individual metabolism and report it to you on your smartphone so you'll know whether or not you are actually losing weight. This breathalyzer, called B ...
According To Science: All Males Were Once Females (Really!)
I can't stop giggling over this. According to science, all males were once females. Bhahahaha! I'm a huge fan of the AsapScience YouTube channel, and when I went there today and read, "Dear Gentlemen, science has a confession. You were once...a female, which helps explain where your nipples came fro ...