Tag: retro
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 Jo ...
Ultimate iPhone Dock For The Retro Traveling Geek
It's funny how a new gadget can make you stop using your old gadgets. Take the iPhone 5 for example with its new Lightning connector. I keep wondering ...
iPhone 5 Case Enables Retro Bell Wake Up Calls
This morning when I woke up, I was wondering why my alarm hadn't gone off yet. It turns out, I woke up before the time set on my wake up call, so I gu ...
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 ge ...
12 Retro Breakfast Cereals That I Wish Would Come Back
Just a little while ago, I finished writing an article about some Game Boy cartridges redesigned for our lives today. It got me all in a retro mood, s ...
Nintendo Game Boy Cartridges Redesigned As Apple, Skype & More
There's no doubt that writing about retro gadgets from the '80s and '90s is fun, but when artists and designers are able to take those things and spic ...
Retro Desktop Main Station iPad & iPhone Dock Feels So ’80s
Sometimes the future seems so boring, and all you want is to head back to the past, if only for a couple days. That's usually how I feel every time th ...
Hungry Hungry Hippos: The Custom Mario Inspired Koopa Version
Oh my gosh, remember Hungry Hungry Hippos? That was one of my favorite games when I was little. It was so loud and obnoxious and fun. Hungry Hungry Hi ...
Old Retro Cassette Makeup Box For The Ladies
Yesterday I wrote about a retro cassette converter and how it could once again bring to life your favorite, old hit songs. We tend to discard our old ...
Mario Guitar Is Another Flawless Custom Build
To get a little bit of a retro feeling into my day, I recently set out to play some Duck Hunt on the old Nintendo NES. It was almost a surreal feeling ...
Horror Ice Cream Popsicles Based On ’80s Movie Villains
Is it just me or are the villains today not as creative and scary as they were back in the '80s? Back then, they all had some psychological aspect of ...
The Toaster NES Mod: Suddenly Mornings Are Way Better
If you have an NES sitting around your house, it's probably collecting dust underneath the bed or on the top shelf of your bedroom closet, right? It's ...
Bladepad: Turn Your iPhone Into The Ultimate Gaming Tool
It's no secret we have come a long way with gaming technology over the past few years. When I was a kid, if I wanted to play video games outside the h ...
Retro Table Created Out Of Old Mac G4 Computers
What do you do with old gadgets and computers? Some people just send them off to be recycled when they purchase a new one. It doesn't really matter if ...
Go Retro With The Ultra Sleek Padintosh iPad Case
We tend to write a lot about all things Apple, and it is not particularly because we are fans of their products. It's because the number of accessorie ...