Archive for March 2006

rAndom international's Pixel Roller.

This has got to be one of the coolest way to paint something: using a light pixel roller!http://random-international.squarespace.com/pixel-roller-video/...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/18/random-internationals-pixel-roller/

Six Stroke Engine.

Bruce Crower has developed something that may change the auto industry forever: a six-stroke engine. “It’ll run for an hour and you can literally put your hand on...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/18/six-stroke-engine/

Ancient Iran: Prehistoric Fashion Center?

Arcaheologists discovered 5000-year-old stylish clothings, jewelry, makeup and textiles in a dig in Burnt City, Iran. Archaeologists there suspect that a state-of-the-art text...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/18/ancient-iran-prehistoric-fashion-center/

Cat Gave Birth to Mouse-Like Kitten.

A cat in Tunisia has given birth to a kitten with strange mouse-like face!Link (via Nothing to do with Arbroath)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/18/cat-gave-birth-to-mouse-like-kitten/

Tube Sock Bandit.

Authorities are looking for a guy that robbed a store while wearing tube socks on his hand, while not bothering to conceal his face!I guess he didn't want to leave fingerprints, b...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/18/tube-sock-bandit/

Double Helix Nebula Looks Like DNA.

UCLA astronomer Mark Morris and colleagues found a new nebula that looks like the double helix of DNA. Most nebulae are "formless, amorphous conglomerations of dust and g...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/18/double-helix-nebula-looks-like-dna/

German Village Sells Snow for Fundraising.

Maria Greiner, the mayor of Steinach, a German village, stumbled upon the idea of selling snow to raise money for child cancer victims. "It was completely by chance, like...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/18/german-village-sells-snow-for-fundraising/

Jules Undersea Lodge - Stay Underwater for Your Next Vacation!

From the website:When guests visit Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida, they discover that the name is no marketing gimmick. Just to enter the Lodge, one must actually scuba d...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/18/jules-undersea-lodge-stay-underwater-for-your-next-vacation/

Holographic Disk Holds 1 TeraByte (Theoretically).

Maxell is coming out with a new data storage device that uses holographic technology! With uncompressed storage capacities achieving 1.6 TeraBytes per disk and data rates as h...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/18/holographic-disk-holds-1-terabyte-theoretically/

Michelle Watters' FlapArt.

Michelle got the idea for FlapArt - The Alternative Book Cover - from her husband: Awhile ago, my husband Brian said "wouldn't it be funny if you were sitting on the subway reading a...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/17/michelle-watters-flapart/

KOMMERZ's Mixed Reality Interface.

Checkout this new method of interacting with your computer: using 3D objects to represent on-screen items. This technology was a hit at the CeBIT 2005 2006 technology tradeshow.Ve...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/17/kommerzs-mixed-reality-interface/

Meerkats are Actually Baby-Killing Cannibals.

If you think Meercats are cute and cuddly mammals, think again - they are baby-killing cannibals. In an eight-year study published in the journal Biology Letters by Dr Andrew Young and Prof...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/17/meerkat-a-actually-baby-killing-cannibal/

Theodore Gray's Wooden Periodic Table.

Ted made this awesome giant periodic table from wood, with cubicles that hold the samples of the actual elements in them! Link (via Digg) Theo Gray, periodic table...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/17/theodore-grays-wooden-periodic-table/

Royal Oak Intermediate School's Roller Coaster.

Students at the Royal Oak Intermediate School in Covina, California built this 1/4 scale roller coaster in their gym. Twenty-four feet tall at its highest point and occupying 10,000 square...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/17/royal-oak-intermediate-schools-roller-coaster/

New Reservoir of Water Ice Found on Mars.

Scientists using MARSIS, a radar antenna onboard Europe's Mars Express spacecraft found what looks like a large and previously unknown reservoir of water ice below the surface...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/16/new-reservoir-of-water-ice-found-on-mars/

DNA Origami: World's Smallest Smiley Face.

Paul Rothemund of Caltech used "scaffolded DNA origami" technique to create the world's smallest smiley face.Rothemund made DNA strands into structures such as squar...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/16/dna-origami-worlds-smallest-smiley-face/

Awesome Egg City Art.

These awesome photos of egg city sculpture / art was taken somewhere in Guangzhou. LinkFor other city landscape / art made from food, checkout Neatorama's past blog posts: Bisc...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/16/awesome-egg-city-art/

Cult Movie Posters.

An amazing collection of cult movie posters at De Lijst: http://www.delijst.net/delijst/filedump/index.php...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/16/cult-movie-posters/

StreetWars.

Recently, StreetWars gained a lot of media attention (it was also featured in one of the CSI series): You can hunt your target down any way you see fit; you can pose as a deli...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/16/streetwars/

Versoix, Switzerland is a Cold, Cold Place.

Take a look at the frozen town of Versoix (these photos circulated on the Net as early as Jan 2005): Link (Thanks Kandra!)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/16/versoix-switzerland-is-a-cold-cold-place/

Bureau of Workplace Interruptions.

Neatorama reader Chris Barr suggested his new project "Buerau of Workplace Interruptions", he said: The Bureau of Workplace Interruptions is an "intimate bureaucracy" cr...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/16/bureau-of-workplace-interruptions/

The Axe Murder Incident.

In an incident known as the "Axe Murder Incident" or the "Hatchet Incident", a United Nations Command workforce trimming a tree at the North-South Korean borde...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/16/the-axe-murder-incident/

Mark Mothersbaugh's Anita First Boyfriend.

See more of Mark's artwork series, titled "Beautiful Mutants 2006": Link (via Jaf Project)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/16/mark-mothersbaughs-anita-first-boyfriend/

Ancient Tattoo.

LL Barkova and SV Pankova of the Department of Archeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia discovered intricate tattoos on Siberian mummies from the 3rd to 5th century BC! These...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/16/ancient-tattoo/

Pentagon's Cyber-Insect Army.

From the website: The Pentagon's defence scientists want to create an army of cyber-insects that can be remotely controlled to check out explosives and send tra...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/15/pentagons-cyber-insect-army/

Pink Snow.

After February's yellow snowfall, Russian island of Sakhalin's now got pink snow:Experts at the local meteorology centre said sand from neighboring Mongolia was to blame fo...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/15/pink-snow/

Failed States Index.

From ForeignPolicy.com: About 2 billion people live in countries that are in danger of collapse.... America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/15/failed-states-index/

Kids Posing as Celebs.

Concreteloop has a set of photos of kids dressing up as celebs. Can you guess who they are dressing up as in the photo above? Now, you may rail against the commercial celebrity-worship nature...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/15/kids-posing-as-celebs/

RI-MAN, Robot for the Elderly.

Designed by RIKEN Bio-Mimetic Control Research Center, this Japanese robot called RI-MAN is the world's first robot designed for lifting and carrying humans. It can also see, hear, and smell a...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/15/ri-man-robot-for-the-elderly/
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