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Benjamin Cho’s dress gives a nod to the crafters of the world: the dress looks like it’s still being knitted by giant disembodied hands!
What’s with the eyes though, I wonder. Link – via Craft, Thanks Henry@Brohans!
Fogonazos has a neat photo collection of semi-submersible heavy-lift ships [wiki], basically giant floating platforms that can transport oil drilling rigs, gas refineries, and even warships.
This one above is Blue Marlin [wiki], owned by the company Dockwise, carrying the oil platform Thunder Horse which was later damaged by Hurricane Dennis.
Here’s a stunning dynamic sculpture "Morpho Tower" using ferrofluid by Sachiko Kodama: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Eduyayo
More ferrofluid goodness on Neatorama: One more ferrofluid sculpture by Sachiko | Ferrofluid physical display by Martin Frey
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Did you hear about the NASA Astro-nut’s Lust in Space saga? She quacked under the pressure!
No, seriously – this post is actually about a neat collection of rubber duckies – via Miss Cellania.
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What’s more boring than watching paint dry? Apparently, watching cheese age! From West Country farmhouse cheesemakers, here’s Cheddarvision: Link – via Scribal Terror
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Anita of Say No to Crack is having a little fun contest to find out the best short joke ever. So far, about forty or so zingers have been submitted.
For example:
A dog limps into a bar and says, “I’m looking for the man that shot my paw!”
What’s green, lives in your refridgerator and sings? Elvis Parsley.
Little Jonny went to the police claiming he was constantly beaten by his parents. Child services looked into it and found the whole family had abuse problems back generations. The judge didn’t know what to do! Finally, he realized the perfect solution. He gave Jonny to the Chicago Bears. They never beat anyone.
Ah, kindergarten humor. Precious! Link
Photo: Bernat Armangue
That’s a jail cell in the F1 section of the Aranjuez prison in Spain, designed to let imprisoned parents to live with their children!
Welcome to a jail Spain says is the only the one in the world with cell units for families: Disney characters on the walls, a nursery, a playground for toddlers. The idea is for kids to bond with their imprisoned parents while young enough to be oblivious to their surroundings, and for inmates seeking rehabilitation to learn parenting skills. The prison in this town 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Madrid has 36 cell units for families, although now only 16 are occupied, most with Latin Americans. The units of the special F-1 section are known in jail jargon as ‘five-star cells’.
Former LOST cast member Michelle Rodriguez decided that she’s going to show off the latest fashion accessory: a court-imposed ankle bracelet!
If you thought handcuff necklaces are hot, consider this. Actress Michelle Rodriguez attended the Marc Jacobs show sporting the signature accessory of the season: a court-imposed ankle bracelet! The former LOST cast member was court-ordered to wear the bracelet after a drunk-driving arrest in Hawaii. The bracelet registers her sweat for alcohol use.
Link – via A Welsh View
Check out Carl Mertens’ table top fireplace, made out of stainless steel logs! Link – via Random Citations
We’ve featured Jeff Han’s Multi-Touch Interaction Screen before, but it’s sooo cool that we just have to do another. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Larger video at Flixxy – via Random Good Stuff
This is astonishing stuff:
Lene Hau has already shaken scientists’ beliefs about the nature of Two years later, she brought light to a complete halt in a cloud of Now Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Hau has
things. Albert Einstein and just about every other physicist insisted
that light travels 186,000 miles a second in free space, and that it
can’t be speeded-up or slowed down. But in 1998, Hau, for the first
time in history, slowed light to 38 miles an hour, about the speed of
rush-hour traffic.
ultracold atoms. Next, she restarted the stalled light without changing
any of its characteristics, and sent it on its way. . . .
done it again. She and her team made a light pulse disappear from one
cold cloud then retrieved it from another cloud nearby. In the process,
light was converted into matter then back into light. For the first
time in history, this gives science a way to control light with matter
and vice versa. — Harvard Press release/Staff photo Justin Ide/Harvard News Office
Watch the video — it’s mind-boggling.
Video: Light and matter (2007) (1:52)
These full color 3D holographic or holo prints can encode six seconds worth of videos in a single sheet of film.
Links: Terminator Hologram Video | Final Fantasy Hologram | Link to XYZRGB Company page – via Poster Wire
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There is now such a thing as a tactical biorefinery, i.e. a portable device for turning trash into energy, i.e. that thing Doc was using to power his Delorean at the end of Back to the Future.
Found at Nerd World (a blog about geek culture by TIME book critic Lev Grossman) .
Image via Purdue University .
This video clip from the Walking with Dinosaurs [official site | wiki] workshop shows the making of some very, very cool raptor suit as well as larger mechanical pieces. Very cool: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Pharyngula
Photo A. Blinov and M. Petrou
Maria Petrou of the Imperial College London and her colleagues further developed an imaging technique used to find flaws in industrial surfaces to capture 3D map of a human face:
The technique, called photometric stereo, uses a fixed digital camera and at least three lights placed around it to illuminate the face from different angles.
The lights are synchronized to flash very quickly in succession, in a few hundredths of a second, so the person being photographed only perceives one flash. But the computer picks up digital data for all lighting angles.
A program written by Petrou and her colleagues analyzes the shadows and highlights, and then combines them into one three-dimensional image.
The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is a rare species often called a "living fossil" –
This seems to me the strangest of all the sharks. It looks like some kind of prehistoric survivor, an experiment in shark design that doesn’t seem to work. And yet, by definition, it does work. Triceratops,
the dinosaur with three horns, is long gone, as are Pteranodon and hundreds of other "impossible" animals. There is little that can be said about this mysterious shark, because so little is known about it. And yet, we have the most curious, incontrovertible fact of all: Mitsukurina lives.
Link | Recently, one was caught alive in Tokyo Bay but died after being put in an aquarium.
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Patrick Dougherty creates his artworks using twigs and saplings – truckloads of them as these art pieces are not only fantastic, they are also gigantic. This one above is called Oh Me Oh My (1996), an installation at Allen Parkway, Buffalo Bayou Artpark, Houston, Texas.j
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Ever taken a CPR class? Then you’d know that those skinny mannequins can’t possibly simulate a real world scenario (at least in the United States). That’s why there’s the Fat Old Fred CPR Manikin (Mannequin): Link
Comments Off The Music Technology Group, led by Dr. Sergi Jordà of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, created this music instrument called the reactable, a synthesizer with a unique user interface: Hit play to see it in action or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Henry@Brohans!
Lutz Haufschild is an amazing glass artist whose work can be found in churches and public places around the world. This one called the Crucifixion Window at the Church of Saint John the Divine, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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This week’s What is It? game with What is It? blog is this weird looking device. One more photo and clues as of the dimensions can be found at What is It?
Guess what it is (and what it’s for) and win a free Neatorama T-shirt! Game rules, as always, are simple: write your guess on the comment section, but post no URL links (let others play, please). First one to guess right wins the prize! Last round, by the way, closed with no winner.
Update 2/9/07: The answer:
Well tile placing apparatus, 11″ diameter when expanded, 10″ diameter when collapsed. Wells were lined with tile which were placed on the outside of this device and lowered down, when in place, pulling on the rope collapsed the device and it was pulled up, leaving the tile behind. Patent number 435594 shows a different tool that was used for a similar purpose.
Seems like #36 by Fodder is the closest. Congrats!
Guys and dolls, man and woman, wife and groom, king and queen, pink and blue, Adam and Eve, plus and minus and so forth, these cute theme pillows are especially fitting for the coming big day…
Follow the link only if you’re part of the bright side of life, for the rest a warning: cute sad things ahead!
Yes, according to Professor Mark Jobling of University of Leicester:
Thomas Jefferson’s haplogroup – shared with the two men from Britain
- is known as K2.K2 makes up about 7% of the Y chromosome types found in Somalia, Oman, Egypt and Iraq. It has now been found at low frequencies in France, Spain, Portugal and Britain.
Of the K2s looked at by the study, Jefferson’s Y chromosome was most similar to that of a man from Egypt. But genetic relationships between different K2s are poorly understood, and this may have little significance.
Next time your parents tell you that video games are good for nothing, tell them that they can improve your vision:
Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved by about 20 percent in their ability to identify letters presented in clutter—a visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics.
In essence, playing video game improves your bottom line on a standard eye chart.
From the website:
Brazil has the widest income gap in South America, with over 20 percent of its citizens living on less than two dollars a day. And Brazil’s crime rate is well on its way to becoming among the worst in the world. In Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, kidnapping has become big business. A recent report found that someone is abducted there every three days.
Then: great naval tragedy. Now: an adventures slide for your kids! Link
It’s a desk made to look like a Mini Cooper! Link – via Gizmodo
This went around the Internet a while ago: a weird video clip of an English language class in Japan. The topic is what to say if you’re robbed, and if that’s not weird enough, there’s even an exercise routine to practice the sayings.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Dan!
Lego artist extraordinaire Henry Lim spent 8 months and used approximately 20,000 Lego pieces to create this Beatles (from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band) lego sculpture: Link
Previously on Neatorama, another Henry Lim’s creation: the Lego Harpsichord.
