Tag: Prototype
The Age Of The UnPrinter
It's amazing how much we depend on our printer these days. It's the backbone of every business. Most of our dealings, business and knowledge were shared by this groundbreaking invention when it first came out as a matrix printer. Back then it was all about pixel line-by-pixel line printing, which wa ...
The Hoverbike Is A Reality
Slowly the technologies of tomorrow are being rolled out into the ever changing society that we live in. No longer are we talking about the small achievements or small gadgets that we can carry along in our pockets. Nope, we're talking about the real technology that will change the very look of our ...
StreetFlyer: The Oddest Bicycle Breed You Have Ever Seen
I was a frequent pedal paddler when I was a kid until I got myself into an accident. After that I have never really found the two wheeled form of transportation to be quite as exciting again. Well, of course, I have been up in the saddle after that, and even gotten myself one of those high end mou ...
Make Your Life Easier: Add A Handle To Your MacBook
Some girls take their purse everywhere they go, some take their dog, I take my MacBook Pro. I even take it to the park, which you can see in this tribute to our readers. If you have a MacBook that you take everywhere like me, then you know how cumbersome it can be sometimes. I'm used to the weigh ...
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 ...
BabelFisk: Glasses That Will Text You What They Hear
Imagine a world where everything is alive, moving and interactive, but there is one thing missing... sound. That is exactly the world a hearing impaired person has to face each and every day. Sign language is a great help and is the primary language used. However, it can sometimes be very time co ...
FlashBike: The Only Way To Roll With Your Flash Memory
There are many designs that have graced the small flash memories that we carry with us on a daily basis. It's like we take pride in giving our files a nice, stylish place to stay while we transport them from A to B. Some are radical, while others are plain or exclusive. The original designs were ...
Keep Cool: New Active Personal Cooling System
Summers are great but they sometimes bring something with them that which we all just hate... that infamous heat that puts us all in a daze and makes us sometimes unable to function properly. First we wish that the heat would come, and then when it does, we complain about it. Isn't that an irony? ...
Alien PEZ Dispenser: This Time You Eat It!
When the first Alien movie was released, I was still just a little kid not even worthy of my own bike. It was an instant success and propelled Ridley Scott and Sigorney Weaver (and many more) right into movie stardom. Ridley is currently working on another sequel to the Alien franchise, and this t ...
ExciteBike: A Life Size Pixel Bike Is Built!
When I was a game fanatic back in the days and had my Nintendo NES almost shrined in my room, I used to play ExciteBike. It's a motocross racing game franchise made by Nintendo. I spent long hours trying to master the different courses, and it became almost a religion just to get through to the ne ...
No More Mouse: MIT Invents Invisible Mouse!
We all knew that the day would come, the day when something would make the mouse obsolete. Many prominent tech company leaders have suggested that we will no longer be using a mouse in the future, and by the looks of it, it seems to be true. Even though the mouse is a great tool for navigating our ...
Clumsy: The Coaster That Safeguards Your Spill
Are you usually compared to Clumsy, one of the 7 dwarfs in the Disney classic? Do you find yourself always asking for napkins when chillin' with your friends at cafes? Then maybe you should really continue reading cause there might be a tool that will keep you from missing out on those important c ...
Designer Tool: Sketching Support For The iPad!
As a designer, I am constantly facing a hardware meltdown when using technological tools to make my work easier and more creative. The iPad has been a huge help when coming up with new ideas for both Bit Rebels as well as client design requests. When I first tried out the iPad for my purposes, I w ...
Finally A Real QWERTY Keyboard For The iPhone 4!
It's on everyone's wish list pretty much, and it's something that Apple just hasn't looked into, yet. Maybe they never will, but I am sure many people would like to have the opportunity to be able to choose if they want to use the touch screen keyboard to type or a real QWERTY keyboard. There are ...
This Is How A Cell Phone Keyboard Should Be Done!
The one most argued feature of the cell phone is probably the keyboard. There are really two camps that battle for their way of setting it up. The two are of course the touch screen keyboard which saves valuable space on the phone giving it more screen, and the physical keyboard that works way fas ...