Archive for December 2005
Bionic Hand.
Led by Prof. Paolo Dario, the Cyberhand consortium (a collaboration of 6 universities and institutes in Europe) is perfecting a robotic hand that hooks up to the body's nervous sy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/10/bionic-hand/Police Busts Brothel Next to Its Station!
Police in Cocoa, Florida busted (an alleged) brothel masquerading as spa and massage parlor, located next to the police station! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/09/police-busts-brothel-next-to-its-station/Martin and Muñoz's Artwork.
Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz's shoes. Awesome aren't they? Checkout their other artwork: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/09/martin-and-muozs-artwork/Hans the Wonder Dog.
Anne Huber's pet Hans the Dog has paralyzed hind legs. He's fitted with a special wheel that allows him to zip around his new job: as an inspiration for patients at the Florida Ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/09/hans-the-wonder-dog/Baffotron Improves Your Relationships in the Corporate World.
Baffotron promises to improve your relationships in the corporate business world. Don't you wish you can do this to that annoying boss/ co-worker? http://www.toilette-humor.com/b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/09/baffotron-improves-your-relationships-in-the-corporate-world/Laughing Dog Sound is Calming to Dogs.
Patricia Simonet, an animal behaviorist at the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service in Washington found that the long, loud pant is the sound of dog laughing.This dog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/09/laughing-dog-sound-is-calming-to-dogs/Holy Tango of Literature.
Francis Heaney asked a simple question: what would happen if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names? The result: Holy Tango Anthology of Lite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/09/holy-tango-of-literature/Hyperdimensional Oscillator, a Steal at $89.95
Life Technology Research has developed the Hyperdimensional Oscillator using a futuristic Tesla technology, psychotronics and quantum physics (!!!) to allow the user to access oth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/09/hyperdimensional-oscillator-a-steal-at-8995/Harry Eng's Impossible Bottles.
Harry Eng, a former minister and elementary school teacher (and magician), created these impossible bottles.From the website: "Harry would tell you straight away that everything went...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/09/harry-engs-impossible-bottles/Jesus is My Coach.
Jesus is My Coach, now you can buy a tribute to the Messiah's moonlighting as a sports coach! http://www.jvtally.com/catalog/sports_statues_356297_products.htm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/jesus-is-my-coach/Smarter Bats Have Smaller Testicles.
Scott Pitnick, a biologist at Syracuse University in New York, discovered that bat species with larger brains have smaller testicles.The male who ejaculates the greatest numbe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/smarter-bats-have-smaller-testicles/Spencer Tunick's Installation Art.
Yes, that is what it looks like. Spencer Tunick has developed sort of a notoriety with his artwork: installations of massive nudity.Link (Not safe for work, but interesting noneth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/spencer-tunicks-installation-art/Etching Your Name on a Strand of Hair.
Lauranne Lanz, a high school student, etched her name on a human hair using a laser beam during her summer internship at C.L. Chien's lab the Materials Research Sience and Engineering Center a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/etching-your-name-on-a-strand-of-hair/Giant Nomura's Jellyfish Attacking Asia!
Giant Nomura's jellyfish, as big as 6 ft wide and as heavy as 450 lb, are invading the Sea of Japan. These large creatures are destroying fishermen's nets and crushing the fish in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/giant-nomuras-jellyfish-attacking-asia/Matisyahu: Ultra-Orthodox Jew, Reggae Artist.
The story goes: "I was 16, I looked like a hippie, I wasn't into Judaism. I was into music, reggae, Bob Marley, girls. My parents wanted me to travel. They signed me up...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/matisyahu-ultra-orthodox-jew-reggae-artist/Chris Barr's 17 Minutes.
"Every 17 minutes, someone commits suicide in the United States." 17 Minutes is a performance and video blog project. Each day I spend 17 minutes standing next to a tree...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/chris-barrs-17-minutes/Window Washer vs. High Wind.
You've probably seen this in the news a few of nights ago: two window washers in downtown Denver hung on for dear life as high winds smash their platform around. They were rescued...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/window-washer-vs-high-wind/Electronic Paper.
Plastic Logic has developed the world's largest flexible organic matrix display: a 10" SVGA (600 by 800) paper display with 100 ppi resolution and 4 levels of grayscale. Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/electronic-paper/Seinfeld and Superman Get Together.
Superman and Seinfeld got together and chewed the fat, talking about when "the uniform used to mean something" in this cute WDDG commercial for Amex. Link - you can clic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/seinfeld-and-superman-get-together/Lesson in Momentum.
Cruel lesson of Newton's First Law: "Object in motion stays in motion"....
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/lesson-in-momentum/New State of Matter with Sand.
Scientists at the University of Chicago and University of Twente in the Netherlands used high speed X-ray cameras to capture a new state of matter. The experiment itself is simple...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/new-state-of-matter-with-sand/Blaschka Marine Invertebrate Glass Figures.
Tony Cabral said it best: The Blaschkas were a father and son pair of glassblowers who made a number of gorgeous models of sea life that now reside at Cornell and Harvard. Thes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/08/blaschka-marine-invertebrate-glass-figures/Batter Up!
I don't know what sport this is, but count me out!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/07/batter-up/The Goodfather for Soon-To-Be Fathers.
When expecting a baby, the Goodfellas in all of men need the "Goodfather", a funstructional CD-ROM to teach men how to handle "a baby they can't refuse". Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/07/the-goodfather-for-soon-to-be-fathers/Takayasu Tanaka's Yo-Yo Tricks.
Check out Takayasu Tanaka, the champion of the 2005 Japanese Yo-Yo championship. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/07/takayasu-tanakas-yo-yo-tricks/Elizabeth Hickok's Jell-O San Francisco.
Elizabeth Hickok depicts various landscapes of San Francisco using jello. This one above is the Bay Bridge."I make the landscapes by constructing scale models of the architectural element...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/07/elizabeth-hickoks-jell-o-san-francisco/Siemens Westinghouse Science Competition Winner.
Sixteen-year old Michael Viscardi won first place in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition, the world's most prestigious high school science competition, and a $100,000 college...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/07/siemens-westinghouse-science-competition-winner/New Mammal Found in Borneo.
Stephen Wulffraat discovered a new species of mammal in the island of Borneo, Indonesia.According to the photographers, the animal is "an enigmatic, red-furred creature w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/07/new-mammal-found-in-borneo/Alice and the Rabbit: The Untold Stories.
Saara Salmi's Everything You Did Not Want to Know About Alice and the Rabbit. I knew there's a back story to Alice in Wonderland! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/06/alice-and-the-rabbit-the-untold-stories/
