Tag: cold
How To Keep Your House Cool In The Summer Months
It is a common practice among Americans to crank up the AC when the thermometer is rising close to the triple digits. What most Americans don’t know is that you can cool your home without the AC. Want to know how? Well, here are three secrets to help cool your home without an AC.
Secret #1 – Open Y ...
The 5 Best Ceiling Fans For The Summer Of 2016
As soon as the Summer hits, we are inundated with hardware store commercials telling us we need to get a ceiling fan. With images of people sweating into puddles and children sitting limply in front of the swamp cooler, we’re led to believe that only ceiling fans will save us from the searing summer ...
New Energy-Saving Rapid Cooling Tech Chills Drinks In 45 Seconds
You are probably familiar with the old trick to chill a beverage in two minutes. It's the one where you fill a bowl with ice, then add water, then add a bunch of salt. When you put the can of soda or beer in the bowl and spin it around really fast with your fingers, it chills the liquid on the insid ...
Power Charger Fuels Your Smartphone Using Just A Hot Or Cold Source
How many smartphone emergency chargers have you read about by now? Quite a few I reckon. Well, it seems there are still a few ways you can reinvent the smartphone power charger. The "new" solar power chargers are in abundance right now. You can get them for your jacket, your backpack, you name it. W ...
The Chemistry Behind The Unique Shape Of Each Snowflake
One of my favorite things about winter is watching the snowflakes fall from the sky. I could stand at the window and watch them endlessly, which sometimes makes me wonder why I chose to live in a place that doesn’t get much snow. It’s just as well though because if I did live in a cold climate, I pr ...
Sküüzi: Badass Beer Glove For Them Cold Days
Even though there hasn't been too much snow this year, at least not here in Sweden, the weather has still been cold and damp. It's far from the heat that exposed itself to us during the summer when all we could do was to chill down with an ice cream or a beer on a Friday. Enjoying a beer now, at lea ...
Top 10 Must-Have Gloves For Geeks
It's getting to be that season again when it's time to break out the gloves. Here in the South where it doesn't get as cold as some places, many people consider gloves more of a fashion statement than a way to keep warm. That's not the case with me though. I wear gloves to bed all winter long. It's ...
Keep Your Tootsies Warm: Innovative Personal Heater Design
I'm a very cold natured person. In the wintertime, even though I live in the south, I'm pretty much always freezing cold. If it's below 70F (21C), I'm dressing in several layers of clothes to stay warm. There's lots of fun stuff that happens outside when the weather gets cold, but I miss a lot of it ...
Handerpants: Underpants For Your Hands
Everyday there are more and more odd things introduced into the world that I would never in a million years think would be made available to everyone. When I say "everyone," I mean everyone including the general public who is really not into the geeky jokes and pranks that we often see here on Bit R ...
The Geek Way To Stay Warm
I recently moved to Cincinnati, and man it is cold here! I am still adjusting to the snow and ice. In the short time I have been here, I have already experienced two big winter snow storms. Adjusting has taught me so many things, like if you stay inside a room with a heater, and if there is very ...
9 Ice Sculptures That Will Inspire You!
Writing here on Bit Rebels is a little bit like a diary to me. Everything I write about every day always has something to do with what I'm going through in my life at that moment. It's really fun for me sometimes to go back over the 1000+ articles I've written here and reminisce over what was happ ...
Crochet Headphones: For Them Cold Days!
It's winter here in Sweden, and it's one of the coldest most snowy ones in many years. Plow trucks are patrolling the streets 24/7, and you constantly hear the scraping of metal against the ground. It's like they are trying to beat the snow before the new snow hits the ground but without success. ...
Going To Extremes: Would You Swim Here?
Many of you have probably seen people tweet about how cold it is in the Southern part of the United States right now. I realize it's December, so logically, it's supposed to be cold, right? No. It doesn't usually get this cold here. I've lived in Atlanta for over ten years, and I can confirm tha ...
Star Wars USB Hand Warmers For Cold Winter Space Days
How do you stay warm on a cold winter day when you're working on your laptop? Are you using some bulky gloves which make your work even slower and stress even higher as you see that looming deadline coming closer and closer? Another step in the battle for a better and cleaner environment is to sav ...
Intelligent Cup: Tells You When The Coffee Is Perfect For You!
Right now I am having a cup of hot tea. Yes, I decided to make it a habit to write a few articles in the mornings during my tea break that I pretty much have had since I was... oh very young. It's one of those times during the day when nothing will poke on your attention, and you are just in your ...