From the website:

The hanukit freshens up a Jewish holiday tradition, the matches, usually used to lighten the candles become the center of attention. By being a small sized kit it enables to perform the traditional ritual on the go.

So, it’s a menorah for minimalists and travelers: Link – via Swiss Miss

Something that will appeal only to scientists: keyboard keys arranged via categories (the alphabets, the numericals, and so on …) Link [flickr] – via Make

Neato Coolville blog (what an excellent name!) has a neat little post about Otto, a replica of a 1931 Model A Ford, which was used by the Missouri Highway Patrol as a police car way back when. Otto can blink, sneeze, honk, and talk – he’s been teaching kids about road safety since 1969!

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Martin wrote on his website:

Liquid Sculpture images are fluids in motion, frozen in time by a flash of light. They are droplets witnessed in mid-splash.

I orchestrate these sculptures by accurately aiming the drops and releasing them with precise timing. As nature takes its course, I photograph the unfolding forms using a digital camera and electronic flash.

I instigate the myriad of shapes by varying the drops’ trajectories and manipulating their physical properties. Color, viscosity, and surface tension are controlled with dye, glycerin, and soap.

Link – Thanks Spluch!

Found at Advertising/Design Goodness.

A blog by Slinkachu, all about "little hand-painted people, left in London to fend for themselves" Link – via 30gms

From the website:

SquidSoap is a fun soap dispenser designed for teaching children healthy hand washing habits.

SquidSoap works by applying a small ink mark on a person’s hand when they press the pump to dispense the soap. The ink is designed to wash off after the hands are washed for about15-20 seconds, which is the time recommended by most doctors.

SquidSoap is lots of fun for kids, since they love to get marked. It makes handwashing more like a game. Also, the very stretchable squid toy is a blast to play with and will provide hours of entertainment.

Link – via Ektopia

This fiberglass "orelhões" (literally, "big ears" )payphone in Brazil was created by Chu Ming Silveira.

For more public payphone art, see Lost Art’s Brazilian Pay Phone page: Link (navigation is a little hidden – to see other photos, click on the image mosaics on the right of the picture of the guy talking on the phone) – via A Welsh View

We saw the paper guns previously on Neatorama, now how about the paper car collection? Link – via Presurfer

Newsicus Maximus blog has a neat top 10 list of the world’s strangest children books. This one above is a page from Brasco: Making Firearms Safety Fun and Other Important Lessons in Life.

See the whole list: Link – via Unique Daily

This cool robot, named WF-4RII and made by the Takanishi Lab at the Waseda University, can play music on a real flute!

Link (Don’t miss the Flight of the Bumblebee video) | Other Robots – via Everlasting Blort

Behold, the rare photo of the mythical Luther Burger, an artery-clogging bacon cheeseburger served on a Krispy Kreme bun, named after the R&B singer Luther Vandross.

Photo on Texas Burger Guy | Luther Burger on Snopes | Luther Burger [wiki] – via growabrain

If you don’t suffer from claustrophobia, staying at the Capsule Inn Akihabara can save you some money! A one night stay at the stylish pod will set you back 4,000 yen or about $35.

Link – via J-Walk Blog

TV in Japan Blog has a curiously strange and nightmarishly cute dance/song number of the Tarako Cupie Girls, the spokespeople for a Japanese company which sells spaghetti noodles with cod rod roe (eggs). I think that’s what the hat’s supposed to signify.

Watch at your own risk – the song is impossible to get out of your head afterwards. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]. Not enough? See more at TV in Japan’s blog post.

From Wooster Collective:

Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.

The sculpture, consisting of an inflatable doll dressed in an orange jumpsuit with its hands and feet manacled remained in place for one and a half hours before Disneyland’s security staff shut down the ride and removed it amid fears over public safety.

Ah, another guerilla art installation by Banksy: Link – via Look at This …

Previously on Neatorama: Banksy’s Telephone Booth | Militus Ratus | Grafitti

Fourteen-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar, a 20-inch tall Nepali boy, had just been denied the title world shortest by Guiness World Records, because he’s too young to qualify:

Fourteen-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar, who is 20 inches tall and weighs 10 pounds, will have to wait another four years before he can be considered as the world’s shortest man.

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Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Yayo!

From the website:

Strategically located in the awesome San Juan mountains of Southwest Colorado, this patented steel-reinforced concrete earth home was built to withstand almost any natural or man-made disaster you can name. It is more secure, safe, and functional than any conventional house could ever be, yet still has a level of comfort that one might not expect to find in an underground home.

The house and its 4.3 acre parcel are currently offered at only $475,000 ($20,000 below appraised value). Or $495,000 for the house with a 4.38 acre boundary adjusted parcel.

The house is also equipped with state-of-the-art air filtration system that can filter out biological and chemical agents, and even radioactive materials.

Can’t even buy a decent one-bedroom fixer-upper at that price in Southern California! Link – Thanks Nandini and Spluch!

See also: Bulletproof Toilet, previously on Neatorama.

What’s up with all these fortress houses for sale? This one is a "beautiful 2-story split level house with a 4-story below ground subterranean fortress" in the beautiful Pacific Northwest…

… It also has many secret doors, and a 1-ton blast door at the entrance and a 3-ton motorized door to seal you in and close the fortress to the outside world. There are at least 5 ways to get in/out of the fortress back into the house!

The fortress comes with almost everything needed to still be a fully functional “bomb shelter”, it comes with everything needed to survive almost any situation. Everything having to do with the survival gear is being left behind for the new owner. … The producers of the History Channel show Secret passages of the Cold War, claimed that this was the best civilian made bomb shelter in all of North America! You still will not believe it once you see it.

A steal at $595,000! Link – Thanks Jim Perry and Kevin Struemph!

From the website:

A “scary-looking face” on a pinang tree has been drawing curious crowds to a village house in Kampung Paya near here.

The face, which looks as though it is imprinted at the base of the frond, was spotted by owner Miah Majid, 60, last week.

Link – Thanks ahza!