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Moonlights are wonderful glowing orbs (or half-orbs) that give off a gentle glow of light, just like its namesake. They are made from polyethylene spheres 13 to 30 inches (33 to about 75 cm) in diameter and can be used indoors and outdoors (or even floating in a pool).
Moonlights aren’t cheap, though – an orb can set you back anywhere from $325 to $1000 – but unlike the Moon, they are guaranteed to illuminate even if the sky is cloudy: Link – via Fortune Small Business | More pics at DVICE – via musecrack
It’s hard to describe Candice Tripp’s art – it’s a little dark and macabre but with a touch of gentle humor. This one is titled "The Escape" – and yes, that’s a splotch of ink on the girl’s head: Link – via Misadventures in Crazytown
This Stone Door Knocker at Chiasso is like Flintstones meet The Jetsons. This handmade door knocker is made from stainless steel plate and wire handle enveloping a regular ol’ river rock.
Being trendy will cost you though, the stone door knocker goes for $98, which means you have to be stone cold rich to have one for your house: Link
There’s no confusion as to when your battery is done chargin’ if you use this Toasty Charger by Hyun-A Ko. The concept design even has a handy dandy color coded LED light to let you know that your battery is being toasted, … er charged: Link by Design Milk
Tuttuki Bako (or Tuttuki Box) is a toy unlike any other.
Made by Bandai Japan (who else but the Japanese would make such a wonderfully silly thing?), the box is a clock … until you insert your index finger into the hole on its side. Then, it’s game on: you’ll see a digital replica of your finger and you can explore a virtual world like tickling a Panda, or playing with a squishy slime ball.
Link – via sleepinginmyhead | Here’s the video clip of the Tuttuki Bako in action
This room is amazing. It’s all handpainted by DogGrrl from Craftster. I’m extremely impressed with her perspective – it took me a few tries, but if you look closely, you can see where the actual wall ends and where her painting skills begin.
And this is genius – shortly after she posted the pictures of her completed room, she had someone gut an old, not-working Coke machine and put shelves inside. The result? Computer cabinet. Love it.
Link for more pictures, which I highly recommend checking out. It’s even more detailed than what you see here!
People love to overlook certain things that pollute, just because we don’t have an alternative yet. We never talk about the emissions caused from cement, which produces more carbon dioxide than the entire aviation industry. Did you know that 5% of all CO2 production comes from cement?
There is finally an alternative. The British engineering firm, Novacem, has created a new cement that uses magnesium silicates, which emit no carbon dioxide when they are heated. As the cement hardens, it absorbs CO2. In all, it removes about .6 tons of carbon dioxide per ton of cement used.
Sanjay Kulkarni of Cowbirds in Love comic nailed it: "Mad scientists" are actually just mad engineers! Check out Sanjay’s website for more webcomic goodness: Link
To help his sister who suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder, Boris Legradic of Letters from Lausanne blog made her a DIY lightbox:
My sister suffers from seasonal affective disorder, also known as winter depression. A commonly prescribed therapy is light therapy – about thirty minutes of bright light in the morning. Bright in this context means more than 10 000 Lumens. You can of course buy commercial light-boxes, but I wanted to construct one by myself…
Photo: DogFromSPACE [Flickr]
For Halloween, Sterling Ely built himself and friends a set of Ghostbuster proton packs out of foam. Silly strings substitute for real proton discharge, and I’m sure that Sterling remembered not to cross the stream to avoid total protonic reversal.
Link: Ghostbuster Proton Packs [Flickr photoset] | The proton packs in action
Remember the epic Star Wars and Star Trek mash up on Neatorama a while ago? Well, Squeezing My Mind Grapes blog has something that may just be even better: forget Star Wars, the Enterprise has just met … Doctor Who!
From Kelvington (who has a whole bunch of other mash up parodies), behold the Doctor Who Meets Star Trek for Christmas: Link [embedded YouTube]
Granuloid and Black Granuloid by Pamela Sunday
These are but two of some really interesting ceramic sculptures, in shapes inspired by nature, made by former fashion stylist and art director Pamela Sunday.
I think granuloid and black granuloid shown above are inspired by the shapes in nature specifically called … cheerios.
W00t! It’s time for our collaboration with What is it? Blog. This week’s mysterious object is pictured to the left: can you guess what it is for?
Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you can think of. Post no URLs, let others play. The first person who guesses right (or gives the funniest guess, if no one gets it right) wins a Free Neatorama T-Shirt.
For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!
Update 1/2/09 – here’s the answer: A BLU-26/B ball-type submunition of a cluster bomb, this inert practice piece has aerodynamic vanes and is made of solid metal, it’s also called a Guava Bomblet.
Congratulations to JKirchartz who got it right! And a big thank you and a free T-shirt to Coyote who corrected the missing picture error!
Here’s to a more prosperous 2009! We have a big and fun surprise for Neatorama coming very soon (you’ll see) but for now, I wish everyone a safe and happy New Year!
Got a New Year’s Resolution? What’s yours? I’ll go first in the comment.
This video is truly amazing to watch. City made of books, sounds like my idea of a good hometown.
The FDA has just approved a drug that will help lengthen your eyelashes. Hopefully they won’t get quite as long as the ones in this photo, but who knows the long term effects of eyelash medication overdoses?
The drug, Allergan, contains an active ingredient that was originally created to treat glaucoma, but found to have this pleasant side effect. The drug should be available in May and will cost $120 per each month’s supply. It will take about two to four months for the effect to start to show.
Link Photo By Asobitsuchiya [Flickr]
