Archive for November 29th, 2005
Aristarkh Chernyshev's Teleblaster 1.0
Aristarkh Chernyshev created the Teleblaster 1.0, a television that allows you to watch TV programs "both in the usual mode and in a special video processing mode" th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/aristarkh-chernyshevs-teleblaster-10/Aerogel: World's Lightest Solid.
Invented in 1930s, Aerogel is the world's lightest solid material. It is 99.8% air and is 1000-less dense than glass. An ounce of this material can cover an area of 10 football fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/aerogel-worlds-lightest-solid/Boris Bally's Urban Mojo.
Artist Boris Bally said: "Most aboriginal cultures, including this country's own native Americans, have adorned themselves with jewelry made of various animal parts s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/boris-ballys-urban-mojo/Yee's V8 Engine Paper Model.
Canadian artist Yee took 1 year to design and create the world's most complex paper model: a working (all parts move properly) V8 engine made from 5756 pieces of paper! Link (v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/yees-v8-engine-paper-model/Chris Voigt's E. Coli Bacteria Camera.
Chris Voigt, a professor at University of California at San Francisco (my alma mater, yay!), is 29 years old when he created a 100-megapixel per square inch camera out of the bact...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/chris-voigts-e-coli-bacteria-camera/Toxic Toys.
Toysafety.net has a list of toys you shouldn't buy. One category that caught my eyes is potentially toxic toys. From the website: "the soft plastic face [of Gloworm] contai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/toxic-toys/