Tag: Controller
Nintendo NES Controller Mug For The Epically True Geek
Geeks have their own ways of geekifying their offices and cubicles. Some geeks just get a customized coffee mug, while others go all out and seemingly redecorate the whole room with geeky stuff. It's always important to keep a personal touch in your office since we spend more than 40 hours a week in ...
Mechanical Gaming Now Available For Donkey Kong Fans
Do you remember the first time you played Donkey Kong on one of those handheld monochrome things you could get as a child in the early '80s? They had pre-etched characters positioned on the LCD screen, which made it look like your character was actually moving, jumping and climbing ladders. It was a ...
Bladepad: Turn Your iPhone Into The Ultimate Gaming Tool
It's no secret we have come a long way with gaming technology over the past few years. When I was a kid, if I wanted to play video games outside the house, I had to carry around a big, bulky Game Boy that was primarily only available with grainy black-and-white graphics. Those days seem like long ag ...
iCade 8-Bitty: Retro NES Controller For Your iPhone & iPad
The retrofication of gadgets and pretty much everything around us is something that is really dear to my heart. I love the memories connected to gadgets that I used to play with when I was a little kid, and that is likely never going to go away. That is why when I find something truly awesome, I get ...
Steampunk Xbox 360 Controller Will Rejuvenate Your Gaming
It's time for another tidbit of steampunk here on Bit Rebels. We love it, but we don't get sent very much of it, and it seems we don't manage to stumble across anything that is worth mentioning very often. However, that of course doesn't mean there isn't anything out there that should definitely be ...
Killingest Retro Arcade Coffee Table Ever Made
There are things I want, and then there are things I truly desire. Being a geek is kind of hard if your wallet isn't Bill Gates size. When you work for Bit Rebels, you are constantly faced with the latest and greatest geek stuff from all around the world. It's sometimes hard to keep writing about th ...
World’s Largest Game Boy Advanced Controller
Just a few years ago, the technology industry was all about making everything as small as possible. Nowadays it seems everyone is trying to make the most badass and largest recreation of something that once was original in size. It's quite interesting really since the things that get recreated are u ...
World’s Largest Working NES Controller
At first, I titled this article "World's Largest NES Controller." I had to go back and add the word "Working" because unlike many of the huge goofy NES controllers we've seen in the past, this one is actually functional! It's so big that the only way to control it is to stand on the buttons. Now the ...
Recycled Nintendo NES Becomes 6 Man Music Jamming Device
I don't know how many times I have wished that I never got rid of my Nintendo NES console. It has almost become something to grieve over, and I can't seem to get my butt out of the chair long enough to actually hunt another one down. I would just love to sit for a couple of hours and play Super Mari ...
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The Evolution Of Video Game Controllers [Infographic]
Ahh... video game controllers. If you are like a lot of geeks, you can graph your life based on what video games you played at the time. I remember being a little kid sitting in a bean bag chair in the cold basement of my parent's house for hours playing Frogger with a simple joystick controller. I ...
Kinect SwimBrowser: Surf The Internet Doing The Breast Stroke
We all know what great exercise swimming is. When I first read about this, I thought, "Great! Now we can swim, get exercise and surf the web all at the same time." That's true if you can hack your Kinect the way David Stolarsky did.
For the 2011 PrimeSense/OpenNI Developer Challenge, he created ...
Super Mario Bathroom: Expect Your Stay To Be Extensive
There are plenty of tutorials out there that show you how to geekify just about anything. To Super Marionize something is considered an art form in today's geeky society, and you can be sure that the accomplishments you achieved when you were younger, like finishing the first Super Mario game, will ...
The Kiss Controller: Video Game Controlled By Smooches
Well dang, this could be better than Kinect! Instead of using your body as the controller, you use your tongue. Ok, maybe it's not better than Kinect, but it still looks like a lot of fun. This little gadget combines two of life's guilty pleasures, kissing and playing video games. That's right, ...
For Trendy Geeks: A Sleek New Minimalist Mouse Design
I remember even just as recently as five years ago, almost nobody was getting creative with computer mouse design. We all had a standard mouse, and nobody really questioned it. It's just the way it was.
However, these days, things are much different. Designers are catering to our creative side ...
This New iPad Controller Gives You Gaming Domination
Do you have an iPad yet? I have a couple of friends abroad that just recently got theirs. Well, guess what? Congratulations on getting one, but now all the focus is on the iPad 2. It's like we've always said here, technology moves so fast that the moment you get a gadget and figure out all the f ...