Tag: TED
Eyeborg Lets Someone Who Can’t See Color Hear What Color Sounds Like
Imagine being born with a rare condition called Achromatopsia which makes you unable to see colors. If you had this colorblind condition in an extreme way, you'd only be able to see in black and white. Neil Harbisson has this, but he can see colors. Well, he can see them, but not with his eyes. He i ...
Why Humanity Is All About Infographics
Some people have asked us why we are so keen on publishing infographics here on Bit Rebels, and the answer is really simple. It's because we believe that they have a huge knowledge value requiring the reader very little energy to acquire that knowledge. We want to educate our readers through short, ...
World Statistics Presented In Augmented Reality Brilliance
Wow, you know I don't usually put videos in my articles unless they are really, really worth watching, and this one falls into that category for sure. I remember when I was at University; one of my favorite classes was Statistics. It approached the actual numbers from the perspective of an Industr ...
Dawn Of The Ted: If Zombies Could Ever Be Cute, This Is It!
It's the age of the zombie movies, and pretty much every movie company in the world wants a share of the profits that are served up when releasing a walking dead movie. It's like we're obsessed with people rising up after they are dead to come get us all. Even though some scientists say it could b ...
The Cube – In This Office You’re the Boss!
For those of us in the corporate world, we slave away at our desk most of the day and more often than not, we are in front of our computers. Our office is one big open space where the desks are facing each other. There are no walls at all. In some offices, people actually have to work in cubicles ...
How To | Feel happiness while designing
The design job occupation can sometimes be quite monotone and become quite dull if you don't fill it up with what makes you happy. Too many times have I found myself in the middle of a project and felt that this is not what I want to be doing right now. It's not intellectually challenging, it's not ...
Design Thinking
Sometimes we are so consumed with the 'brilliant idea' factor, that are eyes and minds don't think of the obvious, the user experience or the common good of the products and services we design. Even though most of us are graphic and web designers, I find this (older) TED video by Paul Bennett, Creat ...
Sixth Sense Do You Have It?
No I'm not talking about the movie or the supernatural, but an interesting technology called the Sixth Sense. Basically, Sixth Sense is a mini-projector coupled with a camera and a cellphone—which acts as the computer and your connection to the Cloud, all the information stored on the web. Sixth Se ...
What Are You Doing? Tweet Talk
For the newbies on Twitter and for everyone else who are into Twitter and for those of you who are wondering who is behind this micro-blogging site and what is it really all about. We dug up a video from TED site for us to get a closer look at the man and one of the fastest growing social networki ...
Lifesaver Bottle
During the twin tragedies of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, Ipswich water-treatment expert Michael Pritchard winced helplessly at televised coverage of throngs of refugees waiting for days for a simple drink of clean water. Stricken by the chronic failure of aid agencies to surmount this b ...
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