Tag: wave
Repurpose Wi-Fi Signals To Gesture Control Everything In Your House
We've written about many gesture controlled goodies before, but this one must be the daddy of them all. How would you like to be able to control everything in your house (even without being in the same room) with a swipe of your hand? Now that is gesture control! Think of it as if your entire house ...
Wave: Social Wristband Light Controlled By Your Smartphone
With the release of the TRON movie a couple of decades ago, we were introduced to a world of light. I am starting to believe that we will soon see a whole lot of light driven accessories. Why? Well, it seems every innovator is utilizing light in order to poke at our attention. A while back I wrote a ...
Wearable Mouse Now Available For Ultra Casual Browsing
I bet when you are sitting at your office desk browsing away on your computer, you sometimes wish there was a simpler and more casual way of doing your work, right? I think after watching Minority Report, we all want to be immersed in science fiction. There are mods out there that will enable us to ...
Ink Riders: Beautiful Surfing Lego Figurines Photo Series
I almost can't even remember when cameras were below 4 mega pixels. Back then we thought the detail was amazing. Until new technology hit the market, we were all amazed to just have digital cameras in the first place. With the sharpness that we can get now with the always increasing number of pixels ...
How To: Surf with Just a Tarp and a Skateboard
It's summer, and it's hot like a mofo outside. All you want is to go to the beach and catch a wave or two. Surfing on the computer is no fun, and unfortunately, the beach is too far away for you to ever make it there and back in the time you have. What will you do then? Well, you don't have many ...
This Pool Creates Waves In The Shape Of…Anything!
I have heard of wave making machines for indoor pools and even machines that are able to create 10 foot waves for people to surf on, inhouse. However, never did I think someone would spend so much time on something to make it create waves in the shape of... well, anything! The brilliant minds that ...
1-Bit Symphony – World’s Smallest Orchestra!
I recently discovered the pleasant and inspiring music of the 8-bit as well as 16-bit instruments. They can easily and best be described as the music that we all know from the era of the Nintendo NES. It's that funky yet cool "ploinking" of razor waves generated by the legendary 8-bit sound chip f ...
The World’s First Hotel Made From Garbage Opens!
We've all seen it on the beach and cringed, right? There are so many empty beer bottles, lost shoes, plastic bags... garbage! Apparently in Europe it is an even bigger problem than here in the States.
Corona beer partnered with German artist, HA Schult to raise awareness about this increasing p ...
Cute Dogs On The Waves – The True Surfer Kings!
I have many times thought of going on a vacation dedicated to surfing (and I don't mean the Internet), but I have never quite followed through on that thought which is quite sad really. However, there is a certain tranquil feeling I get from looking at someone traveling on the crest of a wave. The ...
Google Chrome: Literally Faster Than A Gunshot [Video]
Ahh, the browser wars. Who could live without them? After all, they are all for us consumers and for every new version we get something to play with that is better, more robust and way more advanced. Or? Well, at least if you're looking at all of these commercials that the companies behind them ...
Long Distance Romances Just Got Better, Or Did They?
With social media and online dating sites becoming more and more popular, long distance romances are also on the rise. In the past, the only way to say goodnight in the evenings to your long distance lover was through a computer generated source like email, Skype, social media, wave, etc... or phon ...
How to collaboratively write a blog post using Google Wave
Richard Darell: So, I invited my friend and colleague Fernando Fonseca (@fjfonseca) to try a new approach when writing articles for Bit Rebels. So far I have always written my articles by myself, but I haven't given topics and suggestions to other writers at Bit Rebels when time just haven't been th ...
7 Traits Of A Good Twitter Friend
My friendships on Twitter are very sacred to me. It’s interesting though because we measure the value of an online friend much differently than we do an offline friend. Things that might be acceptable for one might not be okay for another.
In my world, these two universes seem to collide often ...
How Google is failing the launch of Google Wave
It has been a while now since the Google team announced their heavily anticipated new addition to the ever growing Google empire. This time it was a work group related application that was supposed to take us by storm. For a brief moment it actually was as well. But then what happened? The VIP-like ...
Google Wave: Extensions
So we've played around in wave a few weeks, while its fun and crazy at the same time when all your contacts are online at the same time. So until we all get a wave account, what else can we do?
Have you had a look at Wave Extensions? A Wave extension is a robot or a gadget. The robots are applica ...