Tag: recycling
Airpaq – An Upcycled Backpack Made Out Of Scrap Material From Cars!
The importance of recycling scrap materials that may otherwise end up in the trash is known to all of us. However, Adrian Goosses and Michael Widmann, founders of Airpaq, are taking the trend of upcycling to a whole new level. These young men have transformed a college project of creating a function ...
World’s First 3D Printer Built From E-Waste And Scraps
This story speaks to the determination and imagination some people have when it comes to creating greatness. If you want a 3D printer, and the only way you could get one was to make it yourself, would you be able to do it? How about if the only supplies you had to make it were the pieces of scrap an ...
Fantastic Cardboard Foosball Table Made From All Recyclable Materials
There's something about playing on a sustainable gaming table that just feels good. It's time for me to share another creative cardboard design with you, and this one is specifically designed around having fun. Cardboard is so versatile, and since it's also trendy right now, I'm sure we'll be writin ...
Upcycled Vintage Shoes Become Retro Walkie-Talkies That Really Work
I wrote an article last week about the importance of recycling our old smartphones. Now that there are more smartphones on the planet than people, if we don't recycle them properly, they could become the cockroaches of technology. It's always refreshing to see people come up with creative ways to re ...
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Why It Is Important To Recycle Your Old Used Smartphones [Infographic]
I remember back in 2012 when I read an article on Mashable about how by the end of the year, there would be more smartphones than people in the world. The study used to back up that statement was the Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update 2012 - 2017 by Cisco. Now that we are into 2013, I'm sure ...
Game Boy Mod Turns Game Boy Into Android Game Controller
One of the best things about technology is that sometimes old stuff becomes new again. What I mean is that when it comes to recycling, technology is one of the best hosts. The magic of turning an old retro gadget into a futuristic and once again usable gadget is a geek's favorite pastime. If I were ...
Paper Bag Jacket For The Environmentally Aware
When you think about recycling, what image pops into your head? I doubt it has anything to do with clothes, right? I guess it is the same for everyone. Recycling is a word that we have come to feature a lot here on Bit Rebels. Recycling is one of the most creative ways to realize your ideas when you ...
Cardboard Design: An Elegant Restaurant Created From Cardboard
Cardboard is one of those tricky materials to recycle. First it has to be separated since wet or greasy cardboard can't be recycled (like boxes that have been rained on or pizza boxes). Once all the useable cardboard is separated, it can be reused all over the house or recycled into all kinds of thi ...
Simple Recycling Turns Old Floppy Disks Into Retro Notepads
When it comes to recycling, we here at Bit Rebels have always had an eye out for the geeky stuff. You know, the kind of stuff that will enhance any geek's life in a way that will make each day more epic and optimized. But geeks are not easily impressed, and to optimize their needs, you have to go be ...
That’s One Way To Reuse…House Covered In 30,000 Bottle Tops
If you were retired, and if you lived alone in the Siberian taiga in Russia where there are only about 3 people per square kilometer, what would you do to entertain yourself? Maybe you'd be on social media sites constantly, maybe you'd get in the best shape of your life since you could exercise all ...
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 ...
Trash Bags Art: Illuminated Garbage Lights Up The City
We often talk about the environmental effects of all the plastic grocery bags that are produced each day, but what about plastic trash bags? We can't really recycle or reuse those bags since we ultimately fill them with all our garbage, but what does that mean for the environment? What happens to th ...
Wood Bicycles Will Have You Rolling In Style
It's quite astonishing what people can create from things that have been tossed away and discarded. Giving something a second life is the ultimate in recycling and should definitely be the way humanity stops wasting our planet's resources. Recycling has been around for a long time now, and we're get ...
Cork Pants & Jacket For Recycling Fanatics
There seems to be no end to the creativity in people's minds when it comes to the form, texture and design of pants. It's like it has become an obsession that just has to deplete every possible combination of weird and unearthly concepts. We have seen plenty of examples of this here on Bit Rebels in ...
Abraham Lincoln Tribute: Tower Created With 15,000 Books About Him
This year, here in the States, February 20th is President's Day. For the most part, it's one of those holidays that goes unnoticed. It was originally a day set aside to honor the American presidents, specifically George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. There is one group of people who won't be lettin ...