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This strangely elegant looking dress was fashioned from 700 condoms by Vietnamese graphic design student Nguyen Minh Tuan, in honor of World AIDS Awareness Day.
These condoms may no longer be useful for preventing STDs or pregnancy, but the fact that they glow in the dark means you’ll still be the center of attention even after the lights go out.
Alien Invasion Glow-In-The-Dark Goo – $3.95
How do you make glow in the dark goo even more fantastic to play with? You package it in a jar shaped like a 55-gallon drum and add a little alien figurine. Get your Alien Invasion Glow-In-The-Dark Goo at the NeatoShop.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more highly entertaining Cubicle Toys.
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Putty Creatures Thinking Putty – $9.95
Are you lonely? Do you wish had someone or something to talk to? With Putty Creatures Thinking Putty from the NeatoShop you can stretch, twist, snap, and build your own army of glow in the dark followers. Who needs real friends when you have creatures that will bend to your will and are putty in your hands!
Be sure to check out all fantastic Cubicle Toys available at the NeatoShop.
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Counting Sheep – Glow in the Dark – $29.95
Can’t sleep? Well, you can try counting sheep … which is a lot easier if you can actually see ‘em in the dark. Well, these "Counting Sheep" figurines from the NeatoShop, designed by Diana Paisis may help: they are made from glow-in-the-dark material! Perfect for temporary night lights.
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Comments Off NurdRage offers up an especially nerdy Valentine’s Day present: glow in the dark flowers. It’s a simple process. Just drain the contents of a magic marker into a jar of water. Cut the stems off of some flowers and stick them in the jar. Let the flowers sit in the solution overnight. In the morning, after they have absorbed the fluorescent dye, they’ll glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet light.
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The design shop Casual Profanity made a dress out of hollow tubes. It fills intermittently with glow-in-the-dark fluids. The dress itself is not really practical, but this video is particularly well-made and was a finalist at the Vimeo Awards in the category of “Captured”.
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Flickr user stitchFight makes cross stitches inspired by pop culture, including Tank Girl, The Hitchhiker’s Guide, and A Clockwork Orange. Pictured above is an Iron Man cross stitch that incorporated glow in the dark thread.
Remember the record-breaking Penny Pyramid built by Marcelo Bezos? Well, Marcelo had built a "glow in the dark" pyramid featuring Neatorama:
Marcelo's selling the Penny Pyramid, along with the house it comes in:
How do you get a record 3,500 lb. Penny Pyramid out of a house before you sell it ?........ YOU DON”T, you list it as one of the many upgrades and amenities that comes along with it!
Welcome to the current home of the World’s Largest Penny Pyramid! The penny pyramid which was originally built in 2006 to raise awareness for colorectal cancer and the screening process will be auctioned off along with the house it was built in this winter to raise funds in support of the Penny Pyramid Project. Mr. Bezos, the creator and holder of the record is also the founder of the Penny Pyramid Project, a non-profit child philanthropy educational program that uses its signature world record penny pyramid in fundraisers used to support other charitable organizations in the greater Miami area. The Penny Pyramid Project was founded in 2007, it ran its first annual fundraiser that same year raising over 1,200 dollars in pennies alone. Unfortunately, the fledgling program was temporarily forced to go dormant during the 2008 school year. Mr. Bezos, “it is my hope that this unique approach to the sale of the house will generate enough local and national interest that will generate the necessary funding in order to bring back this really neat educational program for our school children.”
and…. if it does not sell?, well then each coin used in the pyramid will be encased in an aluminum outer shell, a lost art only a few companies in the US now can reproduce. In its hay day from 1900-1970, millions of these encased pennies were used to commemorate or used as a premiums to help advertise a company’s product. Mr. Bezos, This type of coining is just a really cool way to showcase what now is the Worlds Largest “Glow” in the dark penny pyramid!”
The current Pyramid has grown to just over 525,000 pennies. The accompanying video series has also been a viral sensation around the world receiving over 3,300,000 views and counting!
The latest work has caused the outer coins to glow in the dark turning the current structure into the Worlds Largest “Glow” In The Dark Penny Pyramid!
Link - Thanks Marcelo!
Update 11/3/09: Marcelo gave us further info on the Neatorama Penny Pyramid statistics:
The letters are made up of the following number of piles and coins
All pennies are uncirculated 2009 D Professional Series.
N= 57 piles 570 pennies
E= 63 piles 630 pennies
A= 64 piles 640 pennies
T= 61 piles 610 pennies
O= 40 piles 410 pennies
R= 56 piles 560 pennies
A= 64 piles 640 pennies
M= 65 piles 650 pennies
A= 64 piles 640 pennies
1. takes about 1min 30 to process each pile so it glows, (secrete process, last about 600 hours when subjected to continous UV light)
2. took about 5 hours to insert in pyramid
ok, that’s a total of 534 piles or 5340 pennies
Sadly, this product is currently out of stock — toilet paper always runs out at the worst possible moment. But when it’s available again, it will shine a light into the darker recesses of your bathroom. Normally on sale for £4.99.
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