Tag: Light
Old School Vinyl Records Recycled Into Nostalgic Retro Lamps
One thing I wish I kept from my childhood is my parent's old record player. I sold it in a garage sale for a couple bucks about a decade ago, and I've regretted it every since. Kids these days will probably never see a record player in real life, and it's one of those retro gadgets that would be so ...
15 Awe-Inspiring Double Rainbows From All Around The World
It's Friday afternoon. This has been a challenging week, and I'm excited the weekend will be here in seven hours, or at least that is when it will start for me. Sometimes it can feel like the weight of the world is on our shoulders, and if that is what your week has been like, I have something that ...
Futuristic Look At Semi-Photosynthetic Humans Growing Food With Light
It's no secret that in the future we are going to have to change the way we fuel our bodies. The increase in population and the decrease in land will force us to find new things to eat. The first world grocery stores packed with tons of different foods are luxuries that people most likely won't have ...
Invisible Blinds Turn Future Homes Into Sci-Fi Cabanas
With Microsoft working on a future operating system which will supposedly be able to run our entire homes, it's not hard to see that innovators are eager to start working on applications that will make our lives a whole lot easier. When it comes to incorporating technology into our homes, perhaps on ...
Smartphone Controlled Wi-Fi Digital Window Shades Save Energy
Although there have been a few innovative window shade concepts presented over the past few years, for the most part, window shades and blinds haven't changed much in decades. If you want to control the light that comes in or increase privacy, you manually pull the shade or close the curtains or bli ...
Fight The Dark Side With The Lightsaber Knitting Needles
Star Wars never stops infiltrating the most odd and unexpected products. With Disney now owning the rights to this incredibly popular franchise, I think we'll see a whole lot more of it too. Sometimes the custom created gear is more impressive than the actual products chosen for release by the copyr ...
Pulse Detection Mirror Technology Could Detect Future Crimes
We have covered facial detection innovation previously here on Bit Rebels. That includes everything from store customer analysis technologies to depression counseling software. Facial recognition technology is being pushed forward at an ever greater pace. New facial recognition technologies are cons ...
New Bike Helmet Adds Ultra-Visible Safety Signals
It's about time innovators start doing something about the current bike helmets available. Every time I set foot in a store these days, I see the same tiered bike helmets on display. They're not new bike helmets, but just the same old boring designs with no added safety features at all. There could ...
Turn Your MacBook Backlight Into A Laser Etched Unique Work Of Art
We've featured a lot of ways to customize your MacBook over the years, but this is the most beautiful and sophisticated option yet. It doesn't put stickers or a case on your laptop to personalize it. Instead, it uses the MacBook backlight to illuminate an etched design that nobody else on the planet ...
Interactive Light Book Prototype Presented By Disney
The use of augmented reality has become a huge factor when innovators and developers try to create new and groundbreaking interactive features. It doesn't have to be housed in a smartphone, but as we know, this is usually the case. Some of this technology has been utilized in other applications sinc ...
Lightpack Turns Your TV Into An Immersive Light Show
When we go to the movie theater, most of us expect a movie experience we have never come across before, right? When the 3D format was introduced, people were ecstatic. As it looks now, we're looking at an even more immersive movie experience with the upcoming 4D movie format. But what is being done ...
Wave: Social Wristband Light Controlled By Your Smartphone
With the release of the TRON movie a couple of decades ago, we were introduced to a world of light. I am starting to believe that we will soon see a whole lot of light driven accessories. Why? Well, it seems every innovator is utilizing light in order to poke at our attention. A while back I wrote a ...
iPhone Equalizer Case Will Start The Party Right
It seems more and more smartphone accessories are incorporating some kind of light feature into them. As some of you might know, I have always looked forward to the day when smartphone cases and accessories have more technology infused into them. The additional features you can add to a smartphone w ...
Smartphone Photo Quality Doubled With New Tech From Panasonic
Smartphone photo quality has always been kind of inferior when compared to system cameras. Even standalone digital cameras have been miles ahead in photo quality (even though smartphone cameras are digital cameras as well). The standing champion is still the system camera. Innovation has of course b ...
Luke & Vader Light Switch Hack For The Extreme Star Wars Fan
The battle between good and evil has always made for the most thrilling storytelling. It doesn't matter whether it is in the future or in the past, the world will always see good and evil and the power struggles between them. One of the most epic adventures ever displayed on the silver screen is of ...