From the website: The Bombadier Embrio uses gyroscopic technology to balance itself and the rider on one wheel, however the smaller front wheel acts as stability control when the Embrio is stopped or trave...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/13/motorcycle-unicycle-bombardier-embrio/This is from an old 1939 issue of Popular Science - found at Modern Mechanix - via Make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/13/poochmobile/From the website: Philip is an ordinary guy from Sacramento, California. He doesn't look like an athlete or talk like an athlete, but make no mistake, Philip Rockhammer is a professional athlete.&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/13/the-ultimate-stare-down-unflinching-triumph-philip-rockhammer-story/Neatorama reader Amanda Jeffrey introduced us to steampunk [wiki] is a form of speculative fiction, kind of like what the future would be like if robots and machines still use steam engines as power source.Thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/13/steampunk-transformers/From the website:Local lunatic David Thompson complains to Charlotte, NC city council during a community access forum, which is conveniently captured on tape and broadcast live on the local community acces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/13/lunatic-complained-about-rogue-helicopters-on-tv/Ever wonder if you've got enough propane for that BBQ get together? With Lite Cylinder's new transparent propane cylinder, you can see directly: no more guessing!Worried about its safety? Checkout the we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/13/transparent-propane-cylinder/Think you can ride a bike? I betcha you can't ride a bike as well as this woman can (she should join a circus!) ...Hit play or go to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8867862777896510907 [Google Video]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/bike-balancing-stunt/Life can be busy and hectic, but please remember to stop and smell the roses, like these cute orangutans are doing - found at Daum....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/stop-and-smell-the-roses/This year, the crop circle "season" is marked by the world's first ever 3-D crop circle!Steve Alexander, a crop circle photographer of more than 15 years, said: "I thought it was a gro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/3d-crop-circle/How old would he be in this movie? From the website:Synopsis: Aging boxer, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is now a widowed restaurant owner in Philly quietly fading into obscurity until a sports trivia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/rocky-vi-trailer/If you think you have a bug problem, be thankful it's not this:So what was it last Friday that turned the radar in the La Crosse area into a sea of white? It turns out that it was a gigantic hatch of mayfl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/bugs-on-radar/Designed by Gen Yanagisawa, this cool one-man helicopter can fly a 155 lb. pilot for one hour, with max speed of 55 mph. At $30,000 it's a bargain!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/ace-crafts-gen-h-4-one-man-helicopter/What would happen if Star Trek's starship Enterprise encountered the Death Star?Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/star-trek-vs-star-wars/Alan Kinnear took this underwater photo of a piglet squid in Nigeria, as part of BP Kongsberg Underwater Image Competition 2006.See more cool underwater photos (don't miss the cirrate octopod pic!): Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/cute-piglet-squid/Yuri Gorby of the Pacific Northwest National Lab and colleagues succeeded in coaxing bacteria to produce nanowires that can conduct electricity for a biological fuel cell.http://www.newscientisttech.com/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/growing-nanowires-using-bacteria/This fantastic ultraviolet photo, taken by the TRACE Project, Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research and NASA, showed our sun as a sizzling ball of seething hot gas:Unpredictably, regions o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/dark-sun-sizzling/If you think your home renovation project is bad, look at this: the world's tallest dam in Brazil has developed a giant crack just months after completion.GIANT cracks have opened in one of the world's tal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/dam-cracked-little-dutch-boy-no-where-to-be-found/Photo: David Cooper/Toronto StarAfter working for 30 years to create a flapping-wing aircraft, first imagined by Leonardo da Vinci, Dr. James DeLaurier succeeded:Yesterday Dr. James DeLaurier, an aeronauti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/12/flapping-wing-aircraft/In a field near Sandwich in Kent, UK, local model maker Alan Gibbs fires up his steam engine which then powers an Apple Mac computer:At a table, curator Rob Tufnell is using an Apple Mac powered by the eng...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/steam-powered-internet-machine/Photo: Stephanie Sinclair / NY TimesFrom a very interesting NY Times article by Barry Bearak and Stephanie Sinclair:The drought has since passed, but the poverty remains, as does the widespread custom of early...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/child-bride-of-afghanistan/German designers Oliver Keller and Tillman Schlootz designed this concept vehicle called Hyanide for the 2006 Michelin Challenge Design:Named for its supposed resemblance to a crouching hyena, the Hyanide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/tank-motorcycle-hyanide/From Earth Picture of the Day:The above photo showing a bizarre arc of lightning was captured near in southeastern France, near Menton, on May 10, 2006. Since the ground is charged opposite that of a cloud...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/ground-to-ground-lightning-bolt/Identical twin brothers rule a country, for the first time ever in modern days:Polish President Lech Kaczynski has appointed his twin brother, Jaroslaw, as prime minister, the president's office has said....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/twins-rule-poland/From flickr user megamommatron's photostream:oh, the wretched. the worst thing about this whole debacle, as my husband later informed me, is that i TOLD Violet to "go play with the peanut butter."...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/joy-of-parenthood/This photograph, being auctioned at eBay, depicts two US military pilots dressed up in strange, Flash Gordon-like helmets and goggles performing some sort of communication experiment. We think.Link [eB...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/us-army-air-corps-pilot-radio-communication-experiment-cir-1925/You can now buy a guitar pick made from 4.5 billion years-old meteorite: The world's first custom guitar pick made from 4.5 billion year old meteorites. Oh, and by the way, they sound GREAT on any gu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/meteorite-guitar-pick/Why use a $0.99 spoon when you can spend $30 to get a self-stirring coffee mug? This Hammacher Schlemmer mug has a propeller at the bottom that can stir the content of the mug at 3,000 rpm at a touch of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/self-stirring-coffee-mug/Kevin took some very cool photos of pinball machine, as seen from (kind of) the point of view of the ball. http://www.kevin.tiell.com/p1/p1.html - via Waxy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/kevin-tiells-photography/Duck Young Kong designed this prototype keyboard food tray for those of us who work and eat at the same time:Home workers spend a lot of time at their worktables. They even eat their meals in front of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/keyboard-food-tray/Check out more of Scott's cartoon-tastic artworks: Link - via Mira y Calla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/11/scott-scheidlys-artwork/
