Tag: solar
Voltaic: Charge Devices On The Go With This Portable Solar Charger
I love snowboarding. I also love digital media. As our devices become more powerful, they require more power. One thing that your average mountain lacks is power points to charge your devices. So how can I get a full day of snowboarding and keep my camera and phone fully charged as well? You can cha ...
Solar Powered Glass Crosswalk Sign Mixes Sci-Fi With Reality
Innovation is what's driving society further, whether it is within technology or not. When it is actually something technological, there are a bunch of benefits that can be reaped from it, until the power goes out that is. We see a lot of technological concept designs here at Bit Rebels. They are se ...
Emergency Solar Cooker Could Help Disaster Victims Recover Faster
When a disaster strikes, the preparations people have made never seem to be enough. Power is nowhere to be found, food is in short supply and people are shocked, scared and in complete disarray. More and more innovators are focusing on creating gadgets and devices to help the victims of these horrif ...
DIY Solar Powered iPhone Charger Will Take You 3 Hours To Make
These days, there are tons of smartphone chargers on the market to choose from, including the solar powered ones that are kind to the environment. We've written about several of those before, and my favorite one is the iKini, which is a solar powered gadget charger built into a bikini. Just don't ge ...
Teenager Builds Ultra-Powerful Death Ray
Dang, the teenagers of today are so different than when I was younger. When I was a teenager, I used to ride my moped to Burger King (aka the BK Lounge) to meet up with my friends. Today's teenagers are first generation digital natives, which means they are doing much more exciting things than han ...
Solar Vox: Charge Any Of Your USB Devices Using The Sun
I take it we're getting used to gadgets being charged by different weird inventions. I mean, if it's not solar, it's wind, but I have yet to see a wave charger. To charge a mobile device in today's day and age isn't that hard, but if you want to be able to do it anywhere and whenever you want, tha ...
New World Record: The Fastest Solar Powered Car
At the University of New South Wales there is a Solar Racing Team (a student run non-profit organization) called Sunswift. Their main purpose is to design and build solar cars for competitions. Their most recent beauty, the IVy, recently smashed an official Guinness World Record for the world's fa ...
Double Phone: The Cell Phone That Never Runs Out Of Battery!
If we all had a say in the creation of a new cell phone, I am sure that the list would be infinitely long with features ranging from both touch screen and qwerty keyboard to 3D high definition cameras. As said, the list could run on forever, but there are some features that I think everyone could ac ...
Beehive House: Creativity Has No Boundaries
When it comes to the state of the economy, there are a lot of different statistics pointing in every odd direction nowadays. Some say we're out of the recession, and others claim the worst is still to come. Sometimes I wonder if they are just scare tactics to keep us holding on to our money while ot ...
Get the Ultimate Power to Hike and Tweet!
As most of you know, our beloved @paul_steele is famous on Twitter for his hiking and tweeting. He tweets the most incredible pictures from the tops of mountains and across huge grassy landscapes where he journeys during the week.
After spending 16 years in the army, Paul now enjoys his two love ...
The Solar Powered Toothbrush: No Toothpaste Required!
There are so many types of toothbrushes available these days, unlike when I was younger. The toothbrush was simply created back then to clean our pearly whites, but now there are specially designed ones to clean our tongue and gums too. After the toothbrushes, different types of toothpastes with s ...
This Is The First Real Photo Of An Alien Planet
There are several alien planets that we are all familiar with, and I am not talking about the planets in our own solar system. We have Pandora, LV-426 and Krypton that are forever stamped in our minds and hearts. There have been talks for a long time about how there should be millions and millions ...
Newly Commissioned Airship – The Future Of Aviation Is Here!
Ever since the Hindenburg failed catastrophically, designers and aviators have been reluctant to poke around with airships ever again it seems. Despite the fact that it is the one most comfortable and noiseless ways to travel, we have not picked up where everything failed that fatal day. Until now ...
Virtual Reality Contact Lenses | Bionic Is Now Here
So we're finally there. Life has just become a little bit weirder and nothing seems impossible any longer. When I saw Terminator for the first time, I was impressed by the cool effects just like everyone else. I just saw that movie again a few days ago, and let me tell you, how I could have belie ...
Solar Eclipse | In Your Own Living Room
It's a rare event and not many people get to see it during their time here on earth. I am talking about the Solar Eclipse event that happens very rarely. The event is as close to a cataclysmic event that many of us will ever get to experience and it reminds us of how small we are and how little we ...