Tag: Technology
Liquid Crystal Technology Transforms Real-Time Weather Into Art
I was recently passing through the San Jose International Airport when I noticed a large liquid crystal art installation hanging from the ceiling of the concourse. At first, I checked my eyes, thinking the hundreds of small clear tiles were reflecting the sun. I quickly realized that each of the cle ...
Living Cyborgs: Now People Can Live Without A Pulse
I’m a cyborg. I’m rather proud of this fact, even though it is a pain much of the time. You see, one of my body parts doesn’t work, so I rely on a medical device to do the work for me, with a little help from my brain. I have type one diabetes and wear an insulin pump.
Unfortunately, so far being ...
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The Growing Impact Of Internet On Education [Infographic]
It sure is an exciting time for the nimble and innovative! With mainstream adoption, the Internet and social media have pervaded every aspect of our lives. In the classroom, the Internet is helping teachers to expand beyond linear, text-based learning, and to engage students who learn best in other ...
Understoodit Classroom App: Press Red Button If You’re Confused
It’s early in the morning, and you’re sitting in class. You pulled an all-nighter yesterday, and the evening before you may or may not have been out partying. You’re not at peak performance, to say the least. And then the prof enters the room, and it’s all over. Confusion time.
While some univers ...
How To Hack The Gigaware 12-494 Universal FM Transmitter
Several years ago, I picked up this device to transmit audio from various devices to my stereo equipment via an FM signal. While this worked well enough, interference aside, one thing that always annoyed me with this device was the rather bulky limitation of its auto style cigarette lighter power ad ...
USB Wall Outlet: No More Searching For The Power Adapter
Have you ever needed to charge your cell phone only to realize that you left the USB power adapter at home on your desk? How many times can you stop by the same Apple store to borrow one of their cradles conveniently hot glued to the display table? Seriously, you've never jack powered while pretendi ...
Jaw Dropping Real Life Wall-E Robot
For fans of the movie Wall-E, your dreams have become a reality. The lovable waste collecting robot made such an impact in the 2008 release that these two fans decided to attempt to make their own functioning prototypes.
First up is Michael, aka n2citrus and a member of the Wall-E Builders Group, ...
Heartbeat Phone: The Smartphone With A Beating, Ringing Heart
The mobile technology world seems to bring a never-ending stream of new ideas and products that have changed our lives forever.
We have recently seen bendy phones appearing all over the web and Pranav Mistry's Sixth Sense concept is a glimpse into the future. As our lives are increasingly going m ...
Why Foursquare Is Worth Watching In 2012
Whether we use it or not, we're all familiar with Foursquare.
Over the past year though, I think this site has emerged with the greatest "it" factor while vying for attention in the midst of an eventful 2011 for the whole of social media. The biggest players (Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) were b ...
5 Twitter Resolutions You Might Consider Making
Now that the holidays are over, it's time to look forward to 2012. While most of us make promises to ourselves that we'll lose weight, quit smoking, or find a new job in the months to come, I think we should also be making new year's resolutions to change how we utilize social media.
And in parti ...
Colorful Daytime Fireworks Created With 8,000 Military Shells
Before I even get into this article about these beautiful fireworks, I want to mention that this video was shot and edited with an iPhone 4S. It's such a great testament for how far technology has come because even just five or six years ago, it would have been unheard of to get these kind of sound ...
Twisted Technology: Deformed iPhone Looks Like A Spiraling Tower
Sometimes artists do strange things to popular gadgets in order to make a profound social, political or cultural statement about the world we live in today. Most of the time I don't really get the message, but if it's unique, interesting art, I'll still write about it. That happened when I wrote abo ...
Eye-Controlled Smartphones: Surf & Play Games With Your Eyes
This is one of those things that we knew was coming, it was all only a matter of time. About a year ago, Richard wrote about the people at Waterloo Labs who figured out how to play Super Mario only using their eyes. A few months after that, Tobii Technology and Lenovo demonstrated an eye-controlled ...
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Tech Germs: Our Gadgets Are Disgustingly Dirty [Infographic]
When I saw an article on Mashable yesterday called 16% of Cellphones Have Poop On Them, I knew I had to check it out. Sure enough, as I expected, it was so nasty I almost threw up in my mouth a little. I've mentioned on Bit Rebels many times before that I'm a Germaphobe. I wash my hands a ridiculous ...
Dissected Obsolete Gadgets X-Ray Photography
What do you think of when you hear the word artifact? I think of some archaeological find from an earlier time in history. As it turns out, technology is moving so fast that even some gadgets that we may have seen our parents use when we were children are now considered by some people to be artifact ...