Tag: weather
High Tech Wind Chimes Receive Real Time Solar Wind Data From NASA
It seems as though even something as simple as wind chimes cannot escape the touch of technology. In this case, it's a good thing because these high tech wind chimes are fantastic. They basically allow you to listen to the solar wind in real time. Since there is no sound in space, it's the first tim ...
Bicycle Barometer Tells You If You Should Ride Your Bike To Work
If you need a little geeky design inspiration for the day, this little bicycle barometer ought to provide that. It's so simple, yet so worth taking a look at. I'm one of those people who would ditch my car and ride my bike everywhere if I could. I hope to do that someday. There are countless reasons ...
The Bread Toaster That Burns The Weather Forecast On Your Toast
We've seen a lot of bread toasters and creative toast art over the past year. I never realized until I started writing about it a while back that there are so many different hues to the brown and black colors that can be burned onto the toast. By getting the colors just right, you can make some pret ...
Sküüzi: Badass Beer Glove For Them Cold Days
Even though there hasn't been too much snow this year, at least not here in Sweden, the weather has still been cold and damp. It's far from the heat that exposed itself to us during the summer when all we could do was to chill down with an ice cream or a beer on a Friday. Enjoying a beer now, at lea ...
Wow! Snowflakes Under A Microscope
I've always been inspired by snowflakes. To me, they are like little specks of magic when they fall from the sky. Since it doesn't snow much in Atlanta, I don't get to see snowflakes very often. I remember in January I wrote 5 Lessons A Snowflake Can Teach Us About Blogging on a day when it snowed h ...
The Tornado That Stole A Burger And Fries
I live in Atlanta, and we have a lot of tornadoes that blow through here each year. We don't have as many as Tornado Alley, but we still get our fair share. People who have never experienced tornadoes get very frightened about them. They usually leave a path of destruction, and many times they ruin ...
The Geek Way To Stay Warm
I recently moved to Cincinnati, and man it is cold here! I am still adjusting to the snow and ice. In the short time I have been here, I have already experienced two big winter snow storms. Adjusting has taught me so many things, like if you stay inside a room with a heater, and if there is very ...
9 Ice Sculptures That Will Inspire You!
Writing here on Bit Rebels is a little bit like a diary to me. Everything I write about every day always has something to do with what I'm going through in my life at that moment. It's really fun for me sometimes to go back over the 1000+ articles I've written here and reminisce over what was happ ...
5 Lessons A Snowflake Can Teach Us About Blogging
We aren't very familiar with snow in Atlanta. If we are lucky, it snows about two or three days each winter (about an inch or two each time), and it is usually melted after a few hours. However, this week it's very different. It's like we are living in the twilight zone or something. We have a l ...
Going To Extremes: Would You Swim Here?
Many of you have probably seen people tweet about how cold it is in the Southern part of the United States right now. I realize it's December, so logically, it's supposed to be cold, right? No. It doesn't usually get this cold here. I've lived in Atlanta for over ten years, and I can confirm tha ...
Weather Widget: Show Off The Weather In Star Wars!
I recently read about a little 1st grader girl who got bullied at school because she liked Star Wars, and she had a water bottle with a Star Wars theme on it. I mean, what is the world coming to? Star Wars has become a lifestyle for many, and I am sure for them these things doesn't go by unnoticed. ...
The Phone That Becomes The Current Weather
While I was attending University, there were a few years when I wanted to be a Meteorologist. I've always been fascinated by weather, especially when Mother Nature becomes a mad scientist, and we see crazy weather patterns.
For example, just this past Friday, it was a mild sunny day in Georgia. ...
The Storm Flipper: A Happy Drinking Fountain Design
What a neat little design that will make you smile. We've all heard the saying, "Take that frown and turn it upside down!" It seems the Swedish architecture studio, Vision Division, has done just that.
They have taken the concept of bad weather and turned it upside down, and in the process crea ...
The Green House Effect: Totally Different From What You Think!
I think that everyone has heard about the Green House Effect by now, and it's affecting us all in one way or another. Some people and scientists blame our escalating bad weather and catastrophes on it. It's safe to say though that something is up and about to be terribly wrong if nothing is done. I ...
The Compass Alert System That Aids In Evacuations
One designer that really puts a lot of thought into his work is Mathieu Azema. He designs with his users in mind. This design of his centers on having an alert system that can aid people when there is a need for an evacuation.
One scenario he pointed out is when we are in a movie theater and an ...