Alan Robinson caught this rare, two-colored lobster in Dyer’s Bay:

The lobster caught by Alan Robinson in Dyer’s Bay that is a typical mottled green on one side; the other side is a shade of orange that looks cooked.

Robinson, of Steuben, donated the lobster to the Mount Desert Oceanarium. Staff members say the odds or finding a half-and-half lobster are 1 in 50 million to 100 million. By comparison, the odds of finding a blue lobster are about 1 in a million.

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In August 2006, Michel Fournier, 62, a former colonel of the French army reserve and a parachute officer, will attempt to jump from the stratosphere…

If he succeeded, he would break the current record, held by Joe Kittinger – the first man who jumped from the edge of space…

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This chair, titled "Consumer’s Rest" was made in 1983 by Frank Scheiner who heads the Stiletto Studios in West Berlin.

”SEVEN years ago, when I took my mother to a design shop in Berlin, she looked at all the wire-mesh furniture and said it reminded her of shopping carts,” recalled Frank Schreiner, a designer who heads Stiletto Studios in West Berlin. ”That’s how I came up with the idea.”

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Andy makes portraits out of gel capsules!

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Jo Ann Villalobos and Rob King created fun hand-crafted costumes for your iPod!

Your iPod wants a Better Life in a spiffy new set of chaps! And that hat is sure Something To Be Proud Of! With this get-up, looks like your iPod will be a Good Ride Cowboy.

Hand-made with fringed-suede chaps, checkerboard kerchief, full-length lasso, and brown suede cowboy hat. Rodeo rope is tied with a real lasso knot

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Tania Robertson’s sick and tired of feeling creeped out by a button spider near her desk in the office and wants it gone.

No wonder, considering the voracious spider’s last prey was a 5 and a half inches (14 cm) long snake!

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If you think that keyboard food tray we saw before on Neatorama is too messy, then you will probably like Tonia Welter’s Keyboard Tablecloth – a fully functional keyboard with electronics woven into a water-resistant fabric shaped like a large doily!

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NASA archaeologist Tom Sever and scientist Dan Irwin, and University of New Hampshire archaeologist William Saturno used "remote-sensing" technology to uncover Maya ruins from space!

"From the air, everything but the tops of very few surviving pyramids are hidden by the tree canopy," said Sever, widely recognized for two decades as a pioneer in the use of aerospace remote-sensing for archaeology. "On the ground, the 60- to 100-foot trees and dense undergrowth can obscure objects as close as 10 feet away. Explorers can stumble right through an ancient city that once housed thousands — and never even realize it."

Sever has explored the capacity of remote sensing technology and the science of collecting information about the Earth’s surface using aerial or space-based photography to serve archeology. He and Irwin provided Saturno with high-resolution commercial satellite images of the rainforest, and collected data from NASA’s Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, an instrument capable of penetrating clouds, snow and forest canopies and flown aboard a converted McDonnel Douglas DC-8 serving as a flying science laboratory. NASA’s DC-8 was operated by Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.

These resulting Earth observations have helped the team survey an uncharted region around San Bartolo, Guatemala. They discovered a correlation between the color and reflectivity of the vegetation seen in the images — their "signature," which is captured by instruments measuring light in the visible and near-infrared spectrums — and the location of known archaeological sites.

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Pål Liljebäck of SINTEF created a snake-like robot that can crawl into places too dangerous for humans to enter. Best of all – it’s powered by water!

The snake contains 20 water hydraulic motors that move the robotic joints – and a similar number of valves to control the water flow to each motor. Each module consists of two hydraulic motors and two valves. The outer layer is comprised of a strong steel skeleton containing the joint modules,which can rotate around two orthogonal axes. The joints are controlled by custom-built electronics.

“It is much like the grab on an excavator where different joints and movements are coordinated by the operator. In this instance, the operator is the computer,” says Pål Liljebäck of SINTEF. “There are angle sensors in each joint, and we can decide with conplete accuracy the angle that we want in the joints. A camera in the snake’s head makes operating the snake like driving a remote-controlled car. The operator can tell the snake to move from A to B, and the snake works out on its own how to accomplish this. It knows how to cross a pile of materials, climb down on the back side and twist itself round objects in order to get footing.”

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Just a small, small selection of a wonderful set of photos of chopper bicycles lovingly compiled by BikeRod and Kustom: Link – Thanks Blurb!