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PsyBlog has teasers and links to ten really strange psychological studies, such as psychic dogs, married couples who resemble each other, and the antidepressant qualities of semen. You are invited to vote for which you think is the weirdest. Link
(image credit: &y)
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Enjoy a collection of mp3s of Christmas music recorded on wax in the early 20th century. This includes music from the Edison Concert Band and the Edison Mixed Quartet. Eddie Cantor’s rendition of The Only Thing I Want for Christmas (Is Just To Keep The Things That I’ve Got) is especially recommended. Link -via Metafilter
Also of note in the Wikipedia article, the following regarding future seasons/episodes:
“In May 2007 it was announced that Lost will continue for its fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons, concluding with the 117th produced episode in May 2010. These three final seasons will consist of 16 episodes each, running weekly in the spring uninterrupted by repeats.”
I can’t remember being as excited about a television series as I have been with Lost. If you haven’t succumbed to its siren song, there’s still time to catch up on DVD before Februrary!
Boeing has taken the first step in making the laser gunship a reality by installing the weapon on a C-130H.
Boeing completed the laser installation Dec. 4 at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. The laser, including its major subsystem, a 12,000-pound integrated laser module, was moved into place aboard the aircraft and aligned with the previously-installed beam control system, which will direct the laser beam to its target.
With the laser installed, Boeing is set to conduct a series of tests leading up to a demonstration in 2008 in which the program will fire the laser in-flight at mission-representative ground targets to demonstrate the military utility of high-energy lasers. The test team will fire the laser through a rotating turret that extends through the aircraft’s belly.
ATL, which Boeing is developing for the U.S. Department of Defense, will destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage, supporting missions on the battlefield and in urban operations.
Link: defensetech
The original inventors and designers of the exciting Disappearing Car Door technology are now in a position to equip your favorite automobile with a cool, sexy, safe and convenient automatic door.
The vehicle architecture offers an attractive rethink for car design and adds greatly to overall vehicle safety including structural integration of the door with the unibody and cruciform door frame technology.
One thing is for sure, it will definitely grab everyone’s attention when you drive a car with Disappearing Doors!
Totally Awesome!
Source: disappearing-car-door
Video: Youtube
One Saturday in May, Ryan Finley tried to wake up his wife Jill but she wouldn’t wake up. The 31-year-old woman had gone into cardiac arrest in her sleep and fell into a coma. After she was rushed to the hospital, doctors said she had very little chance of recovery because Jill’s brain showed little activity.
Ryan was suddenly faced with a tough decision — whether to take Jill off life support. He prepared to say goodbye to his young wife, but he wasn’t prepared for what happened after the plug was pulled.
Source: ABC News
Video: LiveLeak
Looking for a quirky stocking stuffer for your favorite cook? Look no further than Design*Sponge’s handy guide to funky kitchen timers. I actually had (and loved) the tape measure timer above until my husband broke it.
For that hard-to-buy-for someone — Baba de caracol, translated by the manufacturer as "dribble of snail."
The studies have verified that the dribble of snail allows to prevent
and to eliminate wrinkles, to attenuate grooves, to eliminate scars
caused for wounded and burns of first degree, to remove the acne, to
clean spots produced by the sun. It has also demonstrated to be
effective to eliminate warts of the skin.
Via gimcrack, where Nurse Myra has many more snail-related factoids.
[YouTube Link] A vicious attack ad against Immanuel Kant. 56 sec.
Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ
Jeb Corliss has leaped from buildings and other places in a single bound. Now, he plans to do it without the aid of a parachute.
Corliss, who is a base jumper, has made jumps in 16 countries and five contents, more than 1,000 in all, from the likes of the Eiffel Tower and Golden Gate Bridge.
His latest venture is trying to jump from a helicopter and land without using a parachute.
Corliss says he’ll wear a wing suit, which makes him look like a flying squirrel. He plans to landing on a specially designed runway he designed. It will cost up to $2 million. Once he gets the funding for his project, he says it could take up to four months to actually pull off.
He added, “A wing suit, basically, is fabric that goes between your arms and between your legs and it changes the shape of your body. So you become, in essence, a flying squirrel.
He explains that he plans to land on his belly, suggesting, “Imagine an aircraft — aircraft don’t land on their tails, they land on their bellies. That’s exactly what I’m gonna become. I’m gonna become an aircraft’ I’m gonna be landing on my belly.
Why in the world would Corliss try this?
“I wouldn’t I’m doing this because I’m a thrill-seeker. I’m a person who has dreams and my life is based on making those dreams come true. And that’s what I focus on.”
Source: CBS News
Video: Breitbart
Large chunks of ice fall from an antenna during the Oklahoma ice storm. Look at the end of the clip and see the damage it made to someone’s vehicle.
Source: Youtube
This week’s collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange contraption: can you guess what it is? (No, it’s not a tweezer for an extra large nose).
Place your guess in the comment section – no prize this week, so you’re playing for fun and bragging rights. Please post no URL (let others play). For more clues, check out What is It? Blog.
Have fun!
Update 12/13/07 – the answer is:
all’s Mineral Rod, supposedly used as a dowsing rod for finding ore, the type that you’re looking for is placed in the container. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for everyone, “owing to lack of magnetism in the operator”
Nbob #1 got the divining rod part right, but technically, it wasn’t for water.
When you promise your spouse that you’ll only have one glass of beer, with this giant 5-for-1 beer glass technically you’re still keeping your word!
The giant glass holds 60 ounces of liquid. That’s 5 cans of beer, 7 cans of red bull or nearly a 2 liter bottle of soda.
Just $11.95: Link
Don’t just meekly open your mails, rip ‘em up like a god (or goddess) with this Zeus lightning bolt letter opener! You can even take out your agression at some junk mail like the gods on Mount Olympus …
Made by Greece is for lovers, available in solid or silver-plated brass: Link – via Torc
WishbookWeb has a fantastic collection of vintage Christmas catalog scanned for your browsing enjoyment!
Available are old Ward, Sears, Spiegel, and JC Penney Christmas catalogs from the 1940s through the 1980s.
Link – via The Cartoonist
What to do with all those unwanted catalogs you got as junk mail? Well, Chrissie Macdonald turned hers into artwork!
Link (Photo by John Short) – via Core 77
If you like this, you’ll probably like Jen Stark’s Paper Artwork, previously on Neatorama.
Comments Off "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes."
– Jack Handey, comedian (1949 – )
Yes, that’s a Super Mario energy drink called "Power Up," spotted last year by Flickr user Scuzzi during a Nintendo World event in Manhattan, New York.
What does it taste like? Apparently, raspberry (no, not mushroom!).
Image: nicolasnova [Flickr]
Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino turned a phone booth into an aquarium as part of Fête des lumieres 2007 (Light Festival) in Lyon, France.
Previously on Neatorama: Car Aquarium
Cat lovers in Tokyo, Japan, who are unable to own pets because of housing regulations can rent one instead at Cat Cafe Calico:
Visitors to Calico pay 800 yen an hour or 2,000 yen for three hours in a big room where 14 well-brushed and shampooed cats hang out. After a thorough handwash, the visitor can play with the cats, read comics or just relax.
The clean, odourless cafe — Calico has six air fresheners and the litter trays are out of sight — gets about 70 visitors a day during the week and 150 a day at weekends.
"I want everyone to forget about their jobs and relax," Fukui said, adding that the majority of visitors to Calico are working women and children, and about 70 percent overall don’t own cats due to allergies or housing regulations.
Link (Photo: Reuters/Michael Caronna) – via Happy LOL Day
Previously on Neatorama: Flexible Ownership of … Pets!
Itzhak Perlman watch out! Toyota has created a robot that can play the violin:
The new personal robot is a part of Toyota’s Global Vision 2020. The 152-centimeters (5-foot) tall two-legged robot is capable of playing violin. It makes use of its mechanical fingers to push the strings and plays the bow with its other arm. It touts 17 movable joints that endow it with the capability to conduct domestic duties and assist in nursing. The violin-playing robot responds to voice commands and boasts of advanced face recognition.
Link (with embedded YouTube video of the robot’s performance)
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Adam Arber and friends started their own unique brand of stuffed animal company: they specialize in roadkills!
The very first stuffed animal available for sale (£25) is Twitch the Raccoon. Besides the bulging, bloodshot eye, the cute little critter comes complete with plush innards that got squished out:
Twitch’s body is stuffed with a mixture of beads and stuffing. The beads give the Squash-plush teddy a bit of extra weight, so he can lie spreadeagled in his blood and gut-pool. The blood and guts and gore are made using the latest, cutting edge stuffing. It’s a special new micro-bead stuffing that gives the guts and organs a more malleable, tactile effect. It makes it more squidgy. More gross-out. You can disembowel Twitch by pulling the blood and innards through the zips that line both sides of the teddy carcass.
A morbid yet fascinating idea for a toy! Link – Thanks Skysfairy!
The clever folks at Typeworkshop created this typography using toilet papers (the word they’ve chosen to spell is, … well, obvious!).
It’s part of a workshop called Zigzag Zombie in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Participants were told to use one long piece of material and fold or style it to spell words.
Link (don’t miss the other pics!) – via swiss miss
Artist Aganetha Dyck "collaborated" with bees to create her artwork: she installed found objects and figurines into living beehives where they were incorporated into the hive by the bees and later retrieved as honeycombed artwork!
Link – via Phantasmaphile
