Tag: Sensor
DIY High Tech Rainbow Kicks: The High-Top Sneakers That Light Up
Light-up sneakers have come a long way in the past few years. If you want to show the world you have the most high tech custom sneakers ever, you might want to make these DIY high-top sneakers. You'll have to have a little 'know-how' when it comes to geeky crafts, but overall, I think it should be a ...
Brilliant Raspberry Pi Build That Is Like A Babysitter For Hurt Bird
It's heartwarming when technology improves the lives of people around the world, and it's also touching when it reaches over into the lives of animals. Recently I wrote about a duck named Buttercup who was born with a backwards foot. His owner 3D printed him a new webbed foot, and after an intense s ...
Wi-Fi Enabled Tooth Sensor Knows If You Cheat On Your Diet
When you think about it, when it comes to addiction, many of our vices enter our bodies through our mouths (alcohol, food, smoking, etc.). Wouldn't it be nuts if your doctor could monitor whether or not you had a handle on your addiction by tracking data sent to him or her from a tooth sensor strate ...
Touch Communication Bracelet Lets You Touch Someone Who Is Far Away
Ever since people have been falling in love on social media, they've been coming up with ways to bridge the distance. There have been a lot of 'touch communication' devices released. They've included everything from ways you can feel your loved one's heartbeat to ways you can kiss and it supposedly ...
Wearable Air Pollution Monitoring Sensor Analyzes Your Air Quality
Depending on where you live, you might be concerned about air quality. You might even live in a place with poor air quality, and you don't realize it. Several months ago, I sent a picture from here in Atlanta to a friend of mine in Europe. He commented about how the air looks smoggy in my outdoor pi ...
Navigation Glasses Allow Blind People To See Through Audio
I can't help but marvel over some innovators' ability to take technology and turn it into something almost otherworldly. We have seen examples of this many times here on Bit Rebels when we've featured gadgets almost too good to be true. We have featured quite a few helpful accessories over the years ...
Swallow Your Daily Password In A Vitamin Pill & Log In With A Touch
As computer geeks, one of the most inconvenient things we have to deal with is keeping up with all our passwords. It's a pain in the butt, but we do it anyway since we're constantly reminded of the potential consequences if we slack off on our digital security. Wouldn't it be great if our passwords ...
BrickPi Kit Turns Your Raspberry Pi Into Your Own Custom LEGO Robot
If you got your hands on a Raspberry Pi last year when they became available, you've probably had a lot of fun with it. Even though I've had my Pi from the beginning, it never gets old. It's always fun to tinker with it, and make it do things you never thought it could do. There are tons of tutorial ...
Lifespan Of A LEGO Brick: Geeky Stress Test Shows How Long They Last
Have you ever wondered about the lifespan of LEGO bricks? Have you ever wanted to know how long they last? If we're talking about the bricks themselves, the lifespan is probably longer than ours, but I'm referring to how many times you can put LEGO bricks together, then take them apart, then put the ...
Finger Mouse Tracks Movements In 3D Space In Cramped Areas
The mouse has long been the primary device to control things on the screen. That along with the keyboard of course, but the mouse probably stands for about 90% of all the interaction with the graphics on the screen. The mouse has always been a tricky device to use in certain places. In cramped space ...
High Tech Wastebasket Moves To Catch The Trash You Throw At It
How would you like to throw a piece of crumpled up paper at the wastebasket on the floor, and regardless of where you threw it, it would make a clean shot to score you 2 points? Would having a wastebasket that is better at catching your garbage than you are at aiming be cheating, or would it make th ...
Augmented Body: Wear Cat Ears Controlled By Brain Waves
Just when I thought I would never see any crazy inventions from Japan that could ever top what I've already seen and written about before, I stumbled across these cat ears. As with most Japanese inventions, if you can get passed the initial feeling of being disturbed, it's actually fascinating.
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Genius Digitally Exploding High Five Glove!
What else could you be doing at a company when your main objective is to find the coolest and most geeky news other than going around doing High Fives? Ok, quite a lot actually. But the '90s were full of geeks and jocks trying to act cool by doing high fives as soon as they thought they had done so ...
Conway Mathematical Game of Life: Interactive with LEDs
There is a chance that this may be the geekiest thing you've read all week. The wonderful people at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories created this humongous interactive Game Of Life.
According to makezine, "Each group of 8 lights has its own circuit board and ATmega164P microcontroller, and infrar ...
Now Your Plants Can Tweet Too!
It's social media day today, and it seems that social media is truly here to stay. Of course, this is thanks to Twitter, YouTube and FaceBook. More and more people are getting into it. Did you know that Twitter is so hot right now that even plants can tweet? I hope it does not cause the fail wha ...