Neatorama » bottles http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Giant Bottle Tree http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/09/giant-bottle-tree/ http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/09/giant-bottle-tree/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:09:55 +0000 Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/?p=57172

Lithuanian artist Jolanta Smidtiene designed this 42-foot-tall Christmas tree made of 32,000 plastic beverage bottles. It’s displayed in the town square in Kaunas, Lithuania. See more pictures at Laughing Squid. Link

Link to Lithuanian source.

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(YouTube link)

How many plastic containers does your family go through? Multiply that by millions of families, and you see why they have to be made so fast that this video is slowed down to show us how it’s done. This is from the TV show How It’s Made. -via J-Walk Blog

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Blink Ketchup and Mustard Squeeze Bottles – $17.95

They say cooking is an art.  Sadly you are a terrible artist. Don’t fret!  The Blink Ketchup and Mustard Squeeze Bottles from the NeatoShop are here to save the day. With these little guys you can still throw a fabulous party. Guests will be so in awe of these blinking and winking charmers that they will forget all about your terrible cooking.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fabulous kitchen items.

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I made these plastic milk bottle lights by embedding LEDs in the caps, hanging them from a bent section of pipe and hooking them up to an Arduino microcontroller.

Not happy with an on-off switch, I thought they might look mesmerising with a rotary control knob turning them on in sequence. It works! They make great low lighting to wind down for sleep, and they’re great to hang in the hall for parties too.

There are complete build instructions on Instructables.

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Nachimir.

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