Tag: Music
How To: Use Spotify To Market Your Brand
If you love music, you have probably heard of Spotify by now. Spotify is an app you can use on your smartphone or computer to listen to as much music as you'd like for free with ads. For a fee, you can pay to have ad free music, which is not good news for marketers. However, if you know your demogra ...
Plasma Speakers: Play Music Through Particle Laser Beams
When we think of plasma, we think of some kind of laser that generates a heat many million times over what we can even imagine, or maybe not. What is plasma anyway? To explain it simply - It is a state of matter similar to gas in which certain particles are ionized. Think of a plasma globe where the ...
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 ...
Music Hat Makes Winter Exercising A Cozy Endeavor
We have written about the health risks of sitting in front of the computer too long here at Bit Rebels a few times now. There are some serious health effects that are connected to sitting, and according to the research, our bodies take a good beating when we don't do anything to exercise them. For u ...
Cute Crocheted Headphones Make Sure You Stay Unique
There are boatloads of different headphones and earphones on the market. Each one has its own set of features, balances and frequency ranges. Some people just need a simple pair of headphones to listen to their music on whatever device they have available, while others go for a more advanced and pro ...
Jabra Solemate Portable Bluetooth Speaker: A Poolside Review
When the Jabra Solemate first arrived, I was intrigued at how such a small, if ultra-cool, device could produce the sort of sounds I had been promised. So, like any hard-working writer, I forced myself to take it outside to the pool to test it out. And, so as to fully immerse myself in the portable ...
![Gotye’s Own Montage Of Somebody That I Used To Know [Video]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/gotye-own-montage-music-video-optimized.jpg "Gotye’s Own Montage Of Somebody That I Used To Know [Video]")
Gotye’s Own Montage Of Somebody That I Used To Know [Video]
Sometimes a song reaches cult status, and people start to make their own covers and parodies of it. That usually happens when a song becomes successful, but that statement isn't even enough when you think about the success that Gotye has experienced with his hit song "Somebody That I Used To Know." ...
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 ...
Retro Record Player Lets You Convert Old Vinyls To Your iPad
The chance that some of you awesome people have all your vinyl records stored somewhere is quite big. That's not only because it was once such a hyped medium that at one point we literally couldn't go into a single store and not stumble over these epic creations, but also simply because there were s ...
Brandy Keg Stereo For Recycling iPhone Pirates
Almost everything can be recycled, or at least that is how we look at it here at Bit Rebels. But when it comes to the more awesome things you can achieve by recycling, this brandy keg stereo has to be one of the best ones. We have seen a ton of cool recycling projects featured here over the years, b ...
TRON Custom Guitar Build Is A Lightshow In Itself
It is amazing what people create to make a stage show a lot more intriguing. All we have to do is have a look at Lady Gaga for example, and we'll see that a show can be as creative as the limit of our imaginations. Of course it takes a lot of people to pull off the most groundbreaking shows, but it' ...
![The Evolution Of 8-Bit Graphics & Music [Video]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/evolution-of-8-bit-1-optimized.jpg "The Evolution Of 8-Bit Graphics & Music [Video]")
The Evolution Of 8-Bit Graphics & Music [Video]
If you have followed the indie gaming scene closely for the last couple of years, you might have noticed how games have adopted the 8-bit art style at an ever increasing pace. Games like Minecraft, Fez and of course Terraria have all incorporated and built their graphics engine on this art style. Pe ...
The Board Of Education Schools Star Wars With A New Song
A new song hit the airwaves recently that caught my attention. I personally stumbled onto it while listening to the XM Kids channel with my brood. The tune is called Why is Dad So Mad? by The Board of Education. For true Star Wars fans, this song is one you will instantly relate to. It begins by des ...
Your T-Shirt Is Alive: Augmented Reality Embedded Into Clothes
Augmented reality is coming to a to a t-shirt near you...and very soon! Dartmouth, Nova Scotia-based Ad-Dispatch has developed an app that works similar to QR Codes, but picks up on embedded images in the design of your t-shirt. Scanning the special shirts with your mobile phone, for example, will b ...
Facebook’s Theme Song Shows Us Just How Crazy We Are
In the beginning, there will be a tsunami of people who will invest in Facebook when the IPO is launched. People have started to look closely at Facebook as a business, if that is even possible. They thoroughly check and read up on pretty much everything. It's good to know what you put your money in ...