Cruz Hernandez just celebrated her 128th birthday, making her the oldest person in the world:According to national records, Hernandez was born on May 3, 1878, in one of the countr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/07/worlds-oldest-person/Beeboo Big Bubbles Mix, as its name implies, makes bubble solution that can make large bubbles - VERY large ones.Indeed, the company's product was used to create the world's largest free floati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/07/really-really-big-soap-bubbles/From the website: Gas Tank Orchestra features a wide range of instruments including strings, reeds, horns, and percussion, all constructed with discarded automobile gas tanks from the stre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/07/gas-tank-orchestra/James Beaton-Johnson, Elias Fares and Amy Trottier, three J.L. Ilsley high school students discovered a cheap and effective way to clean up dirty water:The trio got the idea from a document...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/07/scallop-shells-for-water-purification/Nearly 4,000 mothers in Manila, Philippines, set a world record for the largest number of women breast-feeding their babies at one time: Manila Mayor Lito Atienza, whose city is one of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/07/breastfeeding-record/What do you get when you combine a keyboard and a mouse? Well, you get this weird gadget which purpose is to eliminate the needs to switch back and forth between the two device...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/07/the-combimouse/Ian Wright is betting big on electric cars. Not just any electric car: his car can go from 0 to 60 mph in just 3 seconds! In the first matchup, the X1 crushed the Ferrari in an eighth-mile...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/06/wrightspeed-x1-super-fast-electric-car/Magician David Blaine's latest stunt is to spend 7 days underwater inside a huge sphere at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York. During the seven-day challenge the water tempe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/06/david-blaines-underwater-stunt/The German Car Blog has cool photos of an Audi TT pimped to look like the car from Will Smith's "I Robot" movie. Link (via digg)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/06/i-robot-audi/Manuel Uribe of Monterey, Mexico, is probably the heaviest person in the world. He probably weighs about 550 kg (1,200 pounds) - probably, because there just isn't a scale that can weigh him:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/06/heaviest-man-in-the-world/What do you get when you vibrate a pot of water mixed with cornstarch? Hit play and find out ... For science-geeks, the cornstarch mixture is a non-Newt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/06/strange-physics-amazing-liquid/A pretty cool example of photomosaics: Steve Jobs made from computer icons.Link (via Digg)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/steve-jobs-an-icon-in-icons/Dolphin Air Rings. Dolphins actually can make toys for themselves. They would blow a round ring of air through their blowholes and then play with it by pushing it around and swimm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/dolphins-blow-air-rings-as-toys/Hunting for the best gas price in town? Just enter your zip in MSN Auto's Local Gas Prices and it will display the prices at various pumps in town.Link (via Miss Cellania)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/cheap-gas-finder/Census of Marine Zooplankton captured thousands of microscopic animal specimens from the ocean bottom in an effort to map their DNA: The latest research cruise in the ongoing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/sequencing-zooplankton-genome/New YorkLondon Berlin Berlin-based art group EboY just released this amazingly complex, detailed pixel artwork of New York City. EboY has also previously...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/eboys-new-york-city-in-pixels/Budhia Singh, a 4-year-old "India's Forrest Gump", ran 65 km (40.4 miles):"Budhia Singh completed the distance in seven hours and two minutes, which is an Indian record," sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/4-year-old-indias-forrest-gump-ran-40-miles-non-stop/Another oldie but goodie: watch this animated gif and count the men before and after the switch - where did that extra man come from? This website will explain it all: Link (via connecto2)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/where-does-the-extra-man-come-from/From the website: The Buddha comes in many manifestations. This Chocolate Buddha is a Hotei Buddha, or Laughing Buddha of Good Luck, is a Confucian symbol and Buddhist symbol and our origi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/chocolate-buddha/Archaeologist Hector Escobedo outsmarted tomb raiders to find the treasures of the tomb of a Mayan king in Peru Guatemala. The excavation team were working against the clock, aware that wou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/mayan-king-tomb-found-in-peru/Laura "painted" this entirely with seeds glued to a board. Seeds used: alfalfa, amaranth, amaranth (love lies bleeding), birdsfoot trefoil, brown mustard, celosia, clover (alsike...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/laura-melnicks-a-day-in-the-life-of-the-elephant-king/This concept toaster, developed by the Inventables Concept Studio, uses special heating glass to warm a single slice of bread. At this time, the glass does not reach a high enough temperature...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/transparent-toaster/This one is titled A Second Chance. Check out more of Dan's fantastic artworks: Link (via Kingboy)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/dan-mccarthys-art-prints/Ah, oldie but goodie: the Mousepad Couch. Someone has a lot of time (and mousepads) on their hands. (via Unique Daily, Thanks Yayo!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/1987/The second female android was built by Korean scientists at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (the first was made in Japan). From the website: EveR-1, a combination of Eve and r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/korean-made-female-android/Take a look at Howard's other amazing photos: Link (Body Knot is work safe, but his other works maybe NSFW)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/05/howard-schatz-body-knots/From the website: The Bush administration is seeking to develop a powerful ground-based laser weapon that would use beams of concentrated light to destroy enemy satellites...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/04/laser-weapons-research-at-starfire-optical-range/This lightbulb is 105 years old and has been burning continuously since 1901! From the website: # Installed: First installed at the fire department hose cart house in 1901. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/04/livermores-centennial-light-worlds-longest-burning-lightbulb/Forbes has compiled another list, this one of best places to go to prison:The days of "Club Fed"--think golf courses and lobster bakes--are long gone. But minimum securi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/04/best-prisons/This one is captioned: A cowboy in the bareback horse competition narrowly escapes injury seconds into his ride at the 1999 Chesaning, MI., Benefit Rodeo.Link...
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