Russian webdesigner Artemii Lebedev recently visited North Korea, and took these (unauthorized) candid photos of everyday life in the Hermit Kingdom.Link - via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/life-in-north-korea/The Worldwide Fund for Nature's motion-triggered camera trap caught sight of this rare rhino in the jungles of Borneo:The rhino is believed to be one of a population of just 13 whose existence was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/rare-rhino-caught-on-film/We've featured a dolphin and a beluga whale blowing bubble rings before on Neatorama - it turns out that this guy in Japan can do it too!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] via TV in Japan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/bubble-ring/A curious new trend in body modification is implanting magnet in a finger. Apparently, this gives the "implantee" a new sense of being able to "feel" electromagnetic fields.According...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/become-magneto-with-magnet-implants/Mike the Hamster is probably the luckiest hamster alive today: he survived an industrial shredder!The rodent is thought to have got into a skip of rubbish that was taken to Recyclo recycling plant in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/lucky-hamster-survived-industrial-shredder/We think it's natural to base our perception of time on our body's orientation and locomotion: we place the future ahead of us and the past behind us.It turns out that this isn't universal: for the Aymar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/aymara-people-backs-to-the-future/This is a paper model of da Vinci's mechanical hammer: This is one of the simplest machines designed by Leonardo in order to improve the human performance. A lever connected to the hammer is moved by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/da-vincis-mechanical-hammer-paper-model/To impress potential female mates, the male Lyrebird can immitate the songs of 20 other bird species, and other sounds like camera shutter, car alarm, chainsaws, and so on! BTW, that's David Attenborough, not h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/14/lyrebird-master-of-mimicry/Canadian mathematicians Samuel Gaudet and Claude Gauthier created a new "guitar" based on a network of three or more strings that can give "exotic overtones that a single string doesn't&qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/tritare-strums-like-a-guitar-rings-like-a-bell/In Denver-based Double Edge Film's short clip called Spin, a mysterious DJ is sent to reverse a series of tragic events - with unintended consequences, of course!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube], Double Edge F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/two-turn-tables-and-a-time-machine-dj-is-god/If you like Virgin's "Flex Your Music Muscle" and Lonely Planet's "Cities", then you'll like LoveFilm's "Ultimate Film Desktop", with references to 100 movie titles for you to fin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/lovefilms-ultimate-film-desktop/We missed the boat on this one: a very cool color optical illusion at JohnSadowski.com that has been going round the web for weeks...Link - Thanks Yayo!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/spanish-casle-illusion/Leadbelly. Leadbelly was an influential folks and blues musician with a pretty colorful life:Lead Belly's boastful spirit and penchant for the occasional skirmish sometimes led him into trouble with the la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/leadbelly/Pearson Ford Fuel Depot is part dealership, part alternative fuel depot:Along with gasoline and diesel, the one-of-a-kind station -- part of a dealership near busy Interstate 15 -- offers a full ra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/pearson-ford-fuel-depot-gas-station-of-the-future/Sam Garfield modded this NES controller into a cell phone using Nokia 3200 parts:As the night went on and the idea evolved, I thought to myself; “Self, why not make the controller into the actu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/nes-controller-cell-phone/Remember the dog helmet? Your dog also needs stylish googles! Doggles are superbly made sunglasses. For dogs. Do not adjust your computer, you read that correctly. Incredible though it sounds, many v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/dog-goggles/Fusarium keratitis is the eye-eating fungus that caused contact lens solution maker Bausch & Lomb to recall its product (apparently, using their product can lead to fusarium infection, which can caus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/lawmaker-use-eye-eating-fungus-to-fight-drugs/Doug Rowell made many cool carved guitars - this one is Jerry Garcia in Roses.See many more cool carved guitars: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/jerry-garcia-guitar-by-doug-rowell/There's something quite fantastic about James Christensen's bronze sculpture:In dreams, it is said that wings represent a release of creative forces, that they give us the ability to understand and transce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/james-christensens-sleeper-lost-in-dreams/I don't understand haute couture, but this I understand: Gareth Pugh's Fall 2006 Ready-to-Wear (really!) Collection on style.com. In fact, don't miss any of his fashion creations: check them all out on the sli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/rabbit-fashion/What to do with that old circuit board? How about making a lamp out of it? Or, you can always buy one:The beauty of technology shines through with this unique circuit board lamp! Made from recycled c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/circuit-board-lamp/Flickr user Peggy Dembicer made this Candy Land board game with about 100,000 beads!Link [flickr]- via Make Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/candy-land-in-beads/Proof that you can get almost anything patented nowadays: Lester Clancy just got a patent for his invention: a cordless jump-rope.What makes this invention work is the moving weights inside the handl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/13/cordless-jump-rope/From the article:"We used to joke, 'Jack's on duty,' never knowing he'd go after a bear," owner Donna Dickey told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday's editions.Neighbor Suzanne Giovane...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/12/cat-scares-bear-up-a-tree/Doug Wilson took this cool photo of the sun's halo over Utah for NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day:Have you ever seen a halo around the Sun? This fairly common sight occurs when high thin clouds containi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/12/suns-halo/Found at Vivek's Blog....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/12/geek-needs-no-mirror-to-shave/How do gazelles survive during food and water shortage for a prolonged period of time in the desert? By shrinking their liver and heart, of course!Sand gazelles' livers and hearts--which are important determin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/12/gazelles-shrink-heart-and-liver-to-survive/Squid and octopus can change their skin to blend into their surroundings - in the future, with the help of nanotechnology, maybe humans too can have programmable tattoos:This "dermal display&quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/12/programmable-tattoos/Brandon Hardesty re-enacts scenes from popular movies such as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Breakfast Club, Pulp Fiction, Star Trek: First Contact, The Shining, etc.He used nothing but his o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/11/brandon-hardestys-re-enactments/Ethan Winer spent hundreds of hours on this project to write and record a pop tune using nothing but cellos. That's right - nothing but cellos - the entire music was played with just one instrument. There are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/10/ethan-winers-a-cello-rondo/
