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Go on, watch this swimming snakebot and try to convince yourself after the first few seconds that what you’re watching is just a machine.
What makes this thing particularly amazing is that it can move just as smoothly over land as it can in liquid. I can easily imagine this ‘bot lurking beneath the glacial sheets of Dione or Tethys, or slithering across the vast trackless wasteland of Mars…or for that matter, curving its way sinuously across the ice in Antarctica on a more terrestrial science mission. Either way, it has to be the most fascinating robotic innovation I’ve seen in a very long time!
See how DNA is packed in the nucleus of every cell of our body, and how it replicates. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via jwz.
Add this to the dangers of microgravity in space: wasabi spill!
The spicy greenish condiment was squirted out of a tube while astronaut Sunita Williams was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon. The three space station crewmembers are given a certain number of bonus packs of their favorite foods to help endure their months in space where most meals are the equivalent of military MREs.
Since everything is weightless, spilled food is no ordinary clean-up challenge.
"We finally got the wasabi smell out after it was flying around everywhere," Williams told her mother this week in a conversation arranged by Boston radio station WBZ. "We cleaned it up off the walls a little bit."
Christofle’s Malmaison Classique Flatware’s knives, forks, and spoons are set with diamonds. Only $18,600 a place setting. Must be nice to be rich.
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What good are those baby books if they don’t teach your kid what’s truly important: that they exist to serve your needs, like fixing your car, doing your banking and afterwards, mixing you a drink.
From author Lisa Brown, a series of fun books for the practical parents!: Link – via swissmiss
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Found at New York Nerd – via Hemmy
In 1951 the Civil Defense Department decided to use Bert the Turtle animation to teach children to "Duck and Cover" [wiki] in case of a Soviet nuclear attack.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Milk and Cookies
Stanford University scientists have created a way to use browse the web without the use of a mouse:
A researcher at Stanford has created an alternative to the mouse that allows a person using a computer to click links, highlight text, and scroll simply by looking at the screen and tapping a key on the keyboard. By using standard eye-tracking hardware–a specialized computer screen with a high-definition camera and infrared lights–Manu Kumar, a doctoral student who works with computer-science professor Terry Winograd, has developed a novel user interface that is easy to operate.
Link – via The Presurfer
In late 60s, Rudolph de Harak designed and the sculptor William Tarr built a 1:1 scale Sopwith plane complete with its runway on top of a building to tease the neighboring buildings’ inhabitants.
The title of the post “Who knew?” reminds me of Turk 182: Link
Of course it was a joke to sing in the burkas, but it was also necessary to wear them. If people in Afghanistan knew who the members of the Burka Band were, we could be attacked or killed because there are still a lot of religious fanatics here, says Nargiz, who hasn’t told any of her friends that she has played in the Burka Band.
Push play or go to YouTube. Link to article. -via Arbroath
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Peter Clark uses pieces of colorful maps, manuscript, and found papers for his collage artwork: Link – via Happy Ant
This cool concept spiderweb inspired radiator is made by Sergey Mozheyko and Yaroslav Rassadin of MANWORKS Design: Link – via Smidigt.se
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Ladies, have you ever been out shopping and realized, after leaving the store, that the shopkeeper stuffed your bag too full? Or are you the “recycle everything” type who would prefer to shop with reusable bags if they didn’t take up so much room?
If so, now there’s a product for you: the dual-use shopping bag and bra. The extra material folds up and acts as extra padding when being worn, although I can’t ever imagine ever being in such a shopping bind that stripping off underwear in public is preferable to asking for an extra bag. Via Gizmodo
Bob Basset makes some weird stuff, like this cthulhu leater doll! Link – via jwz
Previously on Neatorama: Bob Basset’s Dragon Bag.
Paleontologists discovered fossils of a slug-like creature covered with prickly armors that lived on the ocean floor about 500 million years ago:
Called Orthrozanclus reburrus, the new animal was about half the size of a potato bug (called a garden pill bug by some) and had a front shell and long spines covering its entire body with a border of shorter spines along the edges …
See also: World’s Strangest Dinosaur Names
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Archaeologists have discovered a shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina thought to be the ship of legendary pirate Blackbeard.
The ship ran aground in 1718, and some researchers believe it was a French slave ship Blackbeard captured in 1717 and renamed Queen Anne’s Revenge.
Several officials said historical data and coral-covered artifacts recovered from the site — including 25 cannons, which experts said was an uncommonly large number to find on a ship in the region in the early 18th century — remove any doubt the wreckage belonged to Blackbeard.
Cardboard monocle blog has this top 20 list of weirdest comic book weapons, like this one for example:
15 – Dung’s Dual Poop Cannons – Savage Dragon
One of the many throwaway villains that graced the pages of Savage Dragon, Dung is about as static as a character can be. He is a walking poop joke, armed (literally) with two sewage cannons. Where all that crap comes from remains a mystery, but the fact remains that Dung has one of the greatest weapons in comic history.
See the whole list: Link – via GorillaMask
