Tag: Hack
Zero Gravity Office: A Huge Magnet & Some Balls
As we have written about before, many offices tend to be tweaked towards geek activities nowadays, and that's all fine. Here at Bit Rebels we look forward to the day when we have our very own office where all of us will be able to kick the geek afternoons off with a Nerf gun battle or a Nintendo NES ...
Understanding The Sony Hack: Simple Infographic Version
Using your credit card on the Internet can be quite a thrilling experience if you are not careful about which websites you use it on. The ones that stand out the most usually look really shady, or are a duplicate of something legit which they have carefully copied in order to grab the unsuspecting c ...
iPad & Kindle Book Cases: The Hobbit, Sherlock Holmes…
You know, now that the iPad and the Kindle (and all the rest of the tablets) are furiously entering the market with eBooks, there is a huge decline in the number of people who actually go to the library anymore. This in itself is causing a real problem that I don't think we all know or think about. ...
Freezing Han Solo: Real Time Freezing Kinect Hack
The Kinect platform and the awesome technology it represents is breaking new ground each day. The hacks get more and more sophisticated, and there seems to be no limit to what can be achieved with it. Some go for that really futuristic user interface, while others create games and pretty much try to ...
Hacked IKEA Coffee Table Has A Set Of Trains
Some people find IKEA to be compulsively tacky, while others love it with a passion. The thing is, IKEA actually isn't that bad. Yeah, some things they market are pure crap. I would be considerably stupid if I didn't agree to that, but there is so much you can do with the stuff that you get from IKE ...
Kinect Hack: The New Way To Play Space Invaders
The genius invention, Kinect, has been in the headlines for quite some time now, and we are all loving it. One hack after another goes viral, and you can really tell that the Kinect technology appeals to the minds of computer geeks. In the beginning, the hacks were somewhat basic, but they have evol ...
A Fantastically Creepy Steampunk Mouse Design
Wow, I love this! It's like science fiction meets Freddy Krueger meets Dr. Evil. It's Hannibal Lecter meets Mr. Hyde. Ok, maybe I should stop telling you what it's like, and just show it to you.
Peter Balch, a designer from Scotland, created this spooky looking steampunk mouse hack from wood and ...
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 ...
The Plant Whisperer: Makes Your Plants Talk To You
If you are a geek, you can definitely get your geek on in this article for sure! The stuff we write on Bit Rebels about plants really makes them seem more like pets to me than plants. We already know that plants dig certain kinds of music, and they will grow faster if you play that music for them. ...
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Secure Your Stuff: Top Hackable Passwords [Infographic]
It's nothing new that we are all dependent on our passwords. Without them, we wouldn't have an Internet, or at least not all the different services we use every day. Take Facebook for example, it's a service used by 600 million people and growing fast. If it was an open community with no password ...
Kinect Hack Used To Create Stunning Music Video
I have previously touched on the subject of creative music videos, and how they are made. Some people do what everyone else does, and some just hit the ball out of the park. It's a pleasure when that happens since I think the stereotype movie creators tend to throw too many safe cards around thems ...
The Geeky Etch-A-Sketch Computer
Martin over at NortHACKton gets the ultimate geek award this week for sure with his etch-a-sketch computer hybrid. According to his website, after seeing tons of computer controlled etch-a-sketches, he decided to create the opposite... an etch-a-sketch controlled computer.
I grew up playing with ...
Romba Pac-Man: Vacuuming Suddenly Makes So Much More Sense!
It was a while ago now that we saw the first generation of the robotic or autonomous vacuum cleaner grace the shelves in the stores. At first it was a sort of a miracle and ahead of its time. But today, it seems the super hero power of the Romba vacuum cleaner has faded quite a bit, and everyone i ...
Kinect Hack: Air Guitar Prototype Makes Anyone A Guitar Guru!
With every hack that is revealed for the Kinect, I get more and more excited about the future. I don't understand why it took so long for us to understand the importance of the Kinect technology, and why there aren't more people looking into it (and that's not saying there isn't a lot of people doi ...
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 ...