Tag: CD
Anatomy Of An Audio Cassette (For All The Youngins)
I know one of the first things someone is going to ask me about this article is what is a "youngin." According to the Urban Dictionary, the word youngin is country slang, and it means young people. I live in the south, and a lot of people here who use that word, so I can assure you it's alive and we ...
World’s Most Expensive Data Storage Disk Is Made From Sapphire
What if you wanted to record and present information on a data storage disk for someone who may stumble across it 200 years from now, or how about 10,000 years or a million years from now? Recently Patrick Charton from ANDRA (the French nuclear waste management agency) presented one way to accomplis ...
Time To Get Retro: Compact Discs & How They Affected Our Lives
In case you missed it, the 30th anniversary of the first compact disc sale was on October 1st. The CD in question, sold in Japan in 1982, was Billy Joel’s “52nd Street.” It’s amazing that it’s already been thirty years since that event. It's easy to take for granted how revolutionary the CD was to t ...
Creative Portraits Carefully Created By Using CDs
When a creative mind gets going, it's hard to stop it, and that is evident in these creative portraits. Creativity is a living thing that should be let free every chance it gets. Why? Because the things that come out of creativity are not only incredible, but they can change the way we look at thing ...
Animated Infographic Of Audio Formats From 1980 To 2010
If you know your gadgets, you know that the cool thing to have back in the '80s was of course the Walkman, or the Freestyle as some people called it. Listening to music on the go was the edgiest thing you could really do. However, in order to do that, you had to have a cassette of course. It was the ...
45,000 Hand-Sewn CDs Become Spectacular Sea Dunes
I sometimes wonder what happened to the recording medium that researchers and experts told us would grace the world right after the CD. I think someone was way off when thinking it would be a physical thing we would buy in a store. The mp3 format, even though it's really not the original mp3 format, ...
Geeks Store Their Cables The Recycled Way!
Sometimes I get really annoyed by the massive amount of cords that I have laying on the floor around my workstation at the office in order to have the fullest and most extreme experience in front of the computer. We're talking two computers, a bunch of USB gear, three monitors, a speaker system (in ...
A Little Piece of Nostalgia: The Cassette Tape Lamp
Do you remember cassette tapes? They are little plastic rectangles that fit in a tape recorder, and they play music. Seriously, I bet there are people who read this blog that have never seen a cassette tape before. I know my son, who is 9 years old, has never seen one or even heard of one.
Whe ...
Bored? Want a Light Show? Put a CD in the Microwave!
I love smashing, blowing up, destroying and burning things just to see what they look and feel like afterwards. I know, it's something teenagers do, but I can't help it. It's just hard to resist, and the fact that we aren't supposed to do it makes it even more fun.
Have you ever put a CD in the ...
Stylish Dual Music Player: MP3 And CD Player In One!
When I travel, I make sure that I have my iPod with me, especially during long flights. I know a lot of you guys do that as well. It always helps, especially when the flights are delayed. I tend to lean towards music as a source of entertainment rather than movies when traveling. Most of us have ...
The Cassette Tape Wallet: Retro With A Twist
What is it with our cassette tape fascination? We've written so many articles about cassette tape inspired products, and it seems more and more are being created each day. Is it just because we love everything retro, or is there more to it than that?
I think these colorful, squishy, rubber, wat ...
Clocks Created From Vinyl Records – Retro Meets Recycling
Vinyl records are just a tad before my time. I had a few of them when I was very young, but for most of my childhood, it was the cassette era. I have a lot of friends; however, that collect old records. Apparently they can be very sentimental and bring back wonderful memories.
My favorite part ...
Alien Wackiness – Home Decor Inspiration (wth?)
Omg... sometimes we just have too much fun on Bit Rebels. Last night I wrote an article about a giant alien shower sculpture that vomits water. I had to watch a happy television show after writing that so I wouldn't have bad dreams when I fell asleep (I normally don't watch TV).
Many times our ...
1-Bit Symphony – World’s Smallest Orchestra!
I recently discovered the pleasant and inspiring music of the 8-bit as well as 16-bit instruments. They can easily and best be described as the music that we all know from the era of the Nintendo NES. It's that funky yet cool "ploinking" of razor waves generated by the legendary 8-bit sound chip f ...
Discover the Magic of Bar Code Art
Scott Blake is a bar code artist. As if that wasn't unique enough, each piece of bar code in his art is scannable. That's right, you can take your iPhone right up to his art and scan a piece of code to see the product it is associated with.
He has created over 30 celebrity and cultural icon por ...